[Note that this was written on March 5th. We moved houses and changed ministries since then]
1. EVERYTHING IS GREEN! In my journal on travel day I wrote “I’d always imagined Africa to be like Tatooine, only with black people instead of jawas and droids.” (If you’re shaking your head and rereading that last sentence, let me confirm that it was 1)one long Star Wars reference and 2)solid proof of my closeted nerdiness) In other words I expected a big flat desert. But no. Big green rolling hills. Everywhere.
2. Mountains without altitude sickness!!
3. Team Team Team. The entire time that I spent with my second team, I lived with only them. I loved having them to myself so much that I forgot how much I thrive in big groups. At first I was sad to be sharing my new team with another team, but within hours it was confirmed that this will be one of my favorite months. There’s always someone to play cards with and there are twice as many people laughing around the dinner table. And by the dinner table I mean our living room floor.
4. Cooking for ourselves. I love having the option to never eat rice.
5. Ministry at the Hope House. It’s a home for people in Hospice care and we split up and visit the same people every day. They’re wonderful.
6. Sunrises and sunsets. The sun rises right in our backyard, and a little walk from our house there’s a perfect view of the sunset in the mountains.
7. Running. Again, benefits to living with a house full of people. We have a long dirt driveway that leads to the main road where we can run because there’s so little traffic in the middle of nowhere.
8. Chasing chickens out of the kitchen. It’s just very African and makes me happy.
9. Peanut butter and jelly. This is now my third month in a row of eating it almost every day and I’m still happy about it.
10. Heat without humidity.
11. Riding down red dirt roads in the back of a truck.
