The past couple weeks have flown by sooo fast, but they have also been and difficult all at the same time.

I've found that i'm still pretty homesick because there's a lot of time at night to think. I'm loving every second of the things we do and encounter. We're working in three different communities working with kids, doing feedings, prayer walks through the community and prayer in general. I'll probably butcher the names spelling wise, but they're mboneswani, dwalani, and kobaquani. We hope to go to some aids hospices and work with hospitals. on out reach we may even be able to work in prisons and get a taste of all different ministries. Our week days are mainly just class, but three or four times a week, if the weather is good to us, we get to work in the communities. Recently we kinda have just been playing with the kids and helping with feedings so that we can get a sense of what's going on and create bonds with the children.

As far as settling in, i think i've said before that there are ten girls living in one room, pretty small and we're sharing one bathroom. we've been doing pretty good with it, but it's only been three weeks so we'll see :) i love all the girls here and the boys are awesome as well. i'm very blessed with a great and wonderful team. We have found that the girls stomachs have not quite adjusted to the food and everything. we have had pop (it's a dried cornmeal kinda) sooo much that it's kinda sickning, but we have to get over it. :) We have gone to the mall quite a few times and have found that we're quite sick of it ... we want markets. Lot's of taxi rides have been taken. it's great to experience the culture and the different ways of getting around and everything. Today i had my first bee sting ... glad i'm not allergic. so far we have only had one time that we had to take someone to the hospital and it was only because of tick fever. It happened to be the girl that is most scared of bugs and is a nurse. she was freaking out about how clean the hospital was (not really clean). we give her a hard time about bugs a lot:) she's great and takes the humor well.

We got to go on a safari a week or so ago and it was one of the best experiences of my life. Kruger park is the biggest national safari. it goes clear into Mozambique! But we were on the safari from 5:45 am to 4:45 in the afternoon and still didn't get through the whole park. We saw all the the big 5 (elephant, water buffalo, rhino, leopard, and lion) except for a leopard and a close up rhino. There were lots of lions laying on the side of the road. It's mating season for them, so it's easier to see them, but not too often. It was a great experience and i would do it over and over again!

there really isn't much more to say at this time, but i'll update again soon. And aslo i will have links to the other kids blogs so you can see what they say, also they have pictures up and soon we'll have a video up of our team and you'll get to see everyone :)

love you all and thank you for your support.