Around the World in Two Minutes
Living with Tumaini has been incredibly encouraging and challenging. Very rarely is it challenging in the i-hate-your-stinkin’-guts way; it’s mostly challenging in the i-love-your-heart-can-i-be-just-like-you way. Right now, we’ve got two maps hanging in our room; a world map and a map of the USA. One day, while gazing at the globe on our wall, she … Read more
Two books and a blog.
Two books I’ve just finished reading are Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. Although these books are completely different in story lines and geography they both served a huge purpose in opening my eyes up to Islam and the Muslim culture. I’ll probably post about them again sometime … Read more
Dinner
So many of you have asked how dinner went, so I thought I’d post some of my thoughts about it here. When I walked into my house that evening prior to dinner my roommate and I had an interesting conversation. x: G, I won’t be home for dinner tonight. g: Why? x: I’m going to … Read more
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Me! A few years ago, I stumbled upon Jeremy Cowart’s photography. Shortly after that, he went on a mission trip to Africa and came back with some spectacular photos. Over the course of a few months, I kept going back to those photos, falling more and more in love with Africa. Now I’m a full-fledged … Read more
Not My Photos
So I saw these today on BBC’s A Day in Pictures and thought I’d share this first one is described as, “Refugees rush for blankets during a relief distribution in Kabul, Afghanistan, where the harshest winter in three decades has claimed more than 650 lives.” This second says, “Some 230 couples kiss during a mass … Read more
you’ve got to be kidding
Why does everything cool happen during the summer?
Bahamian Post 2
When we first arrived in Nassau, we were swept off to a public school to help the Adventure Learning Centre with Adventure Club, their weekly after-school program. The fun thing about all the schools down there, is that they’re all required to wear uniforms, even public schools. It makes for fun pictures. The great thing … Read more
