borrowing t's computer (it's a pc so bear with me...)

hey guys!!!!!

i know it's been a while, but honestly, the wifi here is extremely unpredictable and stuff.... so i'm borrowing my very good friend t's computer. (if t reads this tho, he knows that i haven't decided if we're friends or not;)

so everyone. wow. i love ethiopia. i love the people here, the kids, (all the kids! the babies, two year olds, older kids... the travel crew...) i love the air here, the altitude, the city, the movement, the shops, the FOOD. the transitional home, aster's house (duni's mom), the swiss family that lives next door, the church i go to, the crazy thunder storms, the random donkeys and sheep everywhere, the stray dogs and cats, the really big doves that coo outside my window every morning (that was for you dad) and did i mention the food?

i started my art classes, thank you everyone who donated or still wants to donate art supplies! they are so helpful, cause shopping for supplies here is no fun at all. me and mule (the head supervisor guy here) went shopping two days straight and still didn't get everything we needed. big thing i have learned to do tho.... make due with what you have, and trust God, and everything will go swimmingly.

for all of you that prayed i would not be lonely, cool story. second night i got here i prayed a desperate cry of "please jesus, i need friends cause otherwise i am gonna be stuck in this house every night from five till bed time and i will be bored out of my mind!" the very next day i met t. t is awesome (don't tell him i said that), and has quite literally taken me out everywhere you can imagine in addis pretty much every day. so now i feel comfortable enough to go out by myself, like this morning i woke up at 6:30 and went for a run down the main road! (almost died... 2000 meters altitude is no joke on your lungs) so t and i play punch buggy all the time, and it's hardcore cause there are a lot of volkswagon bugs here, and we play no mercy style so i have two twin bruises on both my arms right in the sensitive spot. (btw, did i mention how much i love the food here?)

ok, so i started teaching. it's going well i think... i also started painting. i have painted a sun, two sesame street murals and a spiderman mural. the kids absolutely love the art, they love when i do art for them, and they love doing it themselves, so i actually feel like i am making a difference! praise God.

ooh! culture fact: people here love to help. like, the servants spirit here takes my breath away, i feel like a princess. well, i also get stared at a lot. like, a lot. another culture fact: i might be the only ginger in the entire city.

i have like a billion pictures but i can't post them until i get wifi for my own computer. which will hopefully be soon.

wow, this blog is a little scatterbrained.... i promise the next one will be more organized. maybe.

miss you guys!