Since being in Africa I have
- Gotten a new team
- Been chased by monkeys
- Climbed sketchy scaffolding to learn about construction from a man named Siman
- Worked serving food at feeding programs
- Cried after a feeding program because children were begging for food but we were out
- Had my hair ripped out by children as the try to give me cornrows
- Cut all my hair off
- Taught 3 women how to make friendship bracelets
- Been blessed by an South African Pastor
- Planned and hosted a church service with two other girls
- Learned how to say “Wheres the Bathroom” with clicks
- Gone door to door praying for people
- Walked over the South Africa, Lesotho boarder in the middle of the night
- Taught arts and crafts with children
- Learned about animal sacrifice (still common here)
- Gone to 2-5 hour church services every Sunday
- Danced for an entire church service with some Basotho friends
- Learned African worship dances
- Learned lots of African worship songs
- Been given lots of hugs from little kids
- Played with a lot of old play dough with kids
- Prayed over a little boy whose family does witchcraft
- Become addicted to Makoenyas (fat cakes)
- Redecorated a church
- Sat on the edge of a cliff
- Swam in a waterfall
- Baked a cake with cupcake mix and the wrong amount of ingredients at midnight
- Thrown a lady her first birthday party for her 24th birthday
- Been made fun of by boys for being so awful at soccer
- Been treated by a “doctor” wearing nothing but a hot pink fuzzy bathrobe
- Been caught in a sandstorm
- Learned about hearding cows
- Painted a million girls nails
- Had my first Thanksgiving and Christmas away from my family
- Had my picture taken with Santa and my ministry host at the mall
- Read a ton of books
- Gone to the bathroom in an outhouse (by outhouse I mean room with a hole in the ground)
- Been hissed at by a peacock
- Taken an insanely small amount of showers
- Been told my leg hair was “so beautiful” and “so stylish”
- Held lots of babies
- Had a baby pee on me
- Sang lots and lots of VBS songs
- Slept on the floor every night
- Bonded with so many girls on my squad
- Had the best bible studies
- Learned so much about the beautiful culture
- Lived in the Malealea valley which has to be one of the most beautiful places on earth
- Fallen so in love with this corner of the earth and all its people
