Why Addis Doesn't Have Roller Coasters

i have had the rare privilege of driving with david when he wasn't driving adopting families. what does that mean? well, basically, david is a crazy driver when he DOES drive families. what i didn't realize was that he has actually been holding back. i almost screamed several times, and my grip may or may not have tightened on t's arm during the fifteen minute ride of terror. it's a good thing i love roller coasters....

i am writing this blog from the youth group gathering at IEC, the church i have been attending for the past three weeks. it's a great church, international hallelujah! reminds me a lot of my church at home, christian fellowship. last week's sermon was about practicing the presence of god when you are afraid, which was brilliantly timed because i was just getting over my hospital visit.

speaking of hospital visit, i returned to the hospital for a check up on tuesday. i waited 2 hours for a 2 minute doctor's appointment where all he did was poke me in the stomach and tell me i was fine and to finish my antibiotics. hurrah for doctors. (ok... i love doctors. but i didn't really love this one.) and i figured out what made me sick! it was the coffee i drank at abenezer orphanage. and how do i know it was the coffee and not the food? i was at abenezer today and i forgot my lunch so i had some food from there again... teehee. no worries, i feel fine! i guess that's one way to find out, right?

speaking of abenezer, i have painted... thinking... calculating... 6 murals there! and i have painted 6 murals at the transitional home so far, with plans to do many more. as soon as i can, i will post pictures. the kids here have a thing for spiderman... i did two spidermans. one for the TH, one for abenezer. dang. i guess internationally.... marvel really has beat out dc.

this week was pizza week. we ate pizza every day to make sure i was getting better or something. well, now i never want to see another pizza again. we rated the places we went, 10, 6, 5, 4, 2, 6, 8. and i so cannot wait to eat injera again.

youth group is about to start so i'm gonna scoot. love yall, thanks for your prayers. there's other stuff happening here too... but i'll blog about that later maybe. or maybe i'll just keep it a secret;)