No Particular Order

very quick update... it took 23 minutes to load the page so i have 7 to write, so im just going to write quick bullet points...

-we spent 2 days digging a staircase out of a mud cliff and we finished yesterday... it was a celebration after and it was cool to see the appreciation and how amazing simple stairs can be to some people

-i have a huge knot in my back from shoveling that julie keeps trying to get out but it hurts too bad and im a wimp so i dont let her

-they have a milk tea here that i love... julie does too, we are addicted

-today was christie day... brett gave me a mini skunk figurine, i dont know if that has hidden meaning

-mom did you get the call

-jenni and rob fly safe

-our translator went back home for the weekend... so we are a bunch of scared white kids roming gitarama...edward is helping us out but he doesnt speak much english

-salim is the work boss...he is a cool guy and communicating with him despite the language barrier is awesome

-we have work tomorrow then friday kelli our contact is going to take us around to cool places and then saturday back to work

-we are all craving american food bad now...we are actually missing the caf


okay no more time. love you all...post more comments i love to hear them!

love, christie

Fish Food

MURAHO, AMAKURU?

Still here in Gitarama, it has been only 3 days since my last entry, but so much has happened since, and we had a day of rest, so Brett thought we should send an email to our moms and let them know we are stil safe and Happy Mothers Day! I hope you have a good day mom and thank you for the card, i love you too... and Sarah, treat her good today!

Anyways, we started construction on Friday and worked on Saturday as well. We took bricks out of the house, mixed cement, retrieved buckets upon buckets of water from a pond type thing in a jungle-esque area (miss ya jenni and hooch), shoveled cement into buckets and carried them around the house, dug grass up and leveled the ground, replanted grass, finished cementing the house, andmade a cement cover for the septic tank. Relatively simple tasks in America-- but a little more difficult in Africa. We are sore, but we are still loving it!

In between work we get to play with the kids and we all love that. We sit on the steps and they sing to us or we sing to them, we take pictures and show it to them, we try to understand each other, but most of the time they just stare at us and touch our skin or our hair in amazement. They jus want to be touched and loved, which works out great because that is all we want to do as well. They are beautiful and I wish I could bring them home with me-- Mom and Dad, i could pick one out for you guys if you want :)

We had Sunday off to go to church--which ended up being 4 hours long-- but it was good and a great cultural experience... everything you think of Africa, this was it. It was loud and people jumping singing clapping and dancing... even the young children were dancing, and I really mean dancing-- not like us white people :) It was traditionAL African Dance, and it was amazing.

I also must share, just to shock everyone that knows me, that i have eaten-on a consistent basis- fish soup, fried fish, fish kabobs, liver, some kind of green veggie mush, and cabbage.

There is so much to say but not enough time-- go onto cbu website for isp updates because i get to write this next time for my team.

I love you all and thanks for the comments, I love to read them!!! Lindsey, I will definitely take you up on that... Robin, see you then! ...Sarah be safe and smart ...jenni i just freakin love you ...kimmy thanks so much ...mom and dad i love you and thank you

Maricose,
Christie