"Around the Corner"

Now, let me tell you about the entire Tanzanian Spring Break:

We (the missionary team) spent our days working at the private elementary school, Hannah's Nursery, teaching english (numbers, letters, colors, animals, etc) and playing with the kids. During their break, they would go out and play and then sometimes sing us songs. At the end of their day (which was around 11:45pm) we would teach them a bible story. We taught stories like David and Goliath, Jonah, Daniel and the Lion's Den, and the Good Samaritan. Once school let out around lunch time, we would eat lunch and then head to the Orphanage. It was so sad to head there. To be completely honest, I don't think I could handle it very well. What the kids there really needed was a a medical mission team to go bandage them up. They had cuts that were infected, little ones like we usually get, but since they never fix them up, they were infected really badly. When we got to the Orphanage, we usually sang VBS songs, and then acted out stories like the ones we did at the school. We usually gave out the candy to the kids in the orphanage.

In the evenings, we would usually go to a local resturuant. The money exchange was $.90 to 1,000 shillings, but everything was so high priced. One dinner meal was around $10 US dollars. Water was more expensive than soda so I drank TONS of soda while I was there. On Friday wen traveled to Arusha and went to the market, and then Saturday we went on the Safari in the Crater Park. We saw tons of animals, and I'll never look at zoo's the same again!!

All in all it was an excellent trip. I've been on many mission trips throughout my entire life, but I've never felt such a longing to be back in Africa than I have for any other place I've done mission work. Maybe it's because it's only been a day or two since I've been back, or maybe it's because I fell in love with Africa, but I can't stop thinking about that place and how much I want to go back. If anything, it's made me ready to be in the mission field. Like I've said before, I've learned that I don't care where I am, I want to find myself working as a missionary with children.

Here's the cliff I jumped off of into the water. It's not even the entire jump!!