So our internet is not working in the house these days, so it may be a while before I can post some pictures!
but here are a few announcements:
~last weekend (my final weekend with my Katatura host family) I made home made pizza with my brother and sister, and it was super fun... get excited for some of those pictures!
~Today we heard from the first Namibian prime minister!
~This weekend I'm going to a nearby game reserve, so hopefully I'll see some fun animals!!
The real announcement is that on Monday (March 12), I'm leaving for Northern Namibia for 3 weeks! As a group, we are going to the coast, then we are completing our third and final homestay in rural Namibia... get excited for some crazy stories from that experience! Our group is then spending a bit of time at Etosha National Park which is the biggest game reserve in Namibia! From there we have a week-long spring break. Over half of the group is going up to Zambia to see Victoria Falls!
I probably won't be updating until we get back, and that will be in early April! It's crazy that I've been away from home for about 6 weeks now, and when I get back from spring break, my time in Namibia will be over half over!
Thank you for reading, and thank you for your prayers.
More to come after I've seen a lot more of Southern Africa!!!
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Monday, March 5, 2007
A thought
I'm going to post some pictures from the rest of my urban homestay pretty soon, but here's a thought I've been pondering...
A word that many of us associate with Africa is poverty.
No doubt about it, I've seen economic poverty in South Africa and here in Namibia unlike anything that I've seen in the USA... people living in small shanty houses without running water or electricity, orphans begging for food, slabs of cardboard and aluminum pieced together to make houses, empty stomachs...
Yet there is a spirit here that is not poverty-stricken. I have met some of the most faith-filled people here, and the fullness of life is incredible. Granted, I am making generalizations, for there have been people I have met who are struggling and are not hesitant to express those struggles. Yet, I have seen a beautiful life and hope here, too.
So a thought to ponder: What truly is poverty? Is it living without running water, or is it living without hope? Is it eating cornmeal mixed with water three meals a day or is it living without love?
Sometimes I wonder if poverty is more of an internal measurement, and less of an external measurement.
and by what I have seen in so many of the people here, there is wealth...
A word that many of us associate with Africa is poverty.
No doubt about it, I've seen economic poverty in South Africa and here in Namibia unlike anything that I've seen in the USA... people living in small shanty houses without running water or electricity, orphans begging for food, slabs of cardboard and aluminum pieced together to make houses, empty stomachs...
Yet there is a spirit here that is not poverty-stricken. I have met some of the most faith-filled people here, and the fullness of life is incredible. Granted, I am making generalizations, for there have been people I have met who are struggling and are not hesitant to express those struggles. Yet, I have seen a beautiful life and hope here, too.
So a thought to ponder: What truly is poverty? Is it living without running water, or is it living without hope? Is it eating cornmeal mixed with water three meals a day or is it living without love?
Sometimes I wonder if poverty is more of an internal measurement, and less of an external measurement.
and by what I have seen in so many of the people here, there is wealth...
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