Holla mi amigos, Bonjour mis amis, Hello my friends (I'm slick). Life in Rwanda is getting more and more exciting every week. The guest house is filling up with some permanent guest for the summer and is creating a lot of fun. Currently there is Nathan from Seattle, who is teaching English at a special needs orphanage, Andy from Australia, who is working with some AEE (African Evangelistic Enterprises) Austin a grad student from Texas who is working with International Justice Mission (IJM), an older couple from the UK that will be living in Burundi for the next three years as Hunger Corps, Abby also an Arizona State Student who manages the guest house and monitors our internships, and then the two other Interns and Myself. People like this having wide ranges of expierences and listening to their experiences privides not only a great learning expierence but some good stories as well. Should be a fun and entertaining summer.
Jim and I finished our report on the resettlement camp this week. The report included efforts that were currently taking place, issues of concerns, and potential programs and projects Food for the Hungry could implement. It turned out really well. We are just waiting on some feedback from Dwight, which is exciting but scary as well. If any of you are interested in reading it, tell me, and I will email it to you.
Food for the Hungry is now in the thought process of expanding their child sponsorship program and is mainly looking at e-sponsorship as a solution. E-sponsorship will be a internet friendly sponsorship program that will provide sponsers with videos, e-mails, webpages, etc.. of their child. It is largely a new method of how to conduct Child Sponsorship Programs and Food for the Hungry will be one of the first to widely implement it. Very exciting! My role is to brainstorm and write up different ways that Food for the Hungry can approach this. How can it be marketed? Where do you market it? How will it be setup? How can we reach certain places (keeping in mind it will be international)? These are some of the questions I am trying to answer. So that is one of the projects they have me working on.
In addition, Food for the Hungry/ Rwanda is collectively creating a regional office (including Burundi, The DRC, and Uganda) by expanding their present office. And When you have new offices you need new furniture. This is where I come in. Yesterday I was given the mission to design and furnish these offices with desks, shelves, chairs, tables, etc... So there I went to the market by myself to compare prices. Oh and I love language barriers, they make everything so much easier, NOT! But I managed to find a few furniture stores and collect quite a bit of different prices. So I am still in the process of the furnish office assignment. Good times, great oldies!
So there is my update on my life in Rwanda. Hope you guys are not becoming bored and are still reading, i'll try to spice the next one up with a good story. Also, thanks for all of you that are leaving comments and updating me on your lives it's good to hear form you. And for those of you who are not, I'm disappointed, and expect more out of you. Love you all
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Language barriers are awful. I know when I try to talk to someone who doesn't know english I start signing to them.....as if! I don't even realize I'm doing it! I'm enjoying your blogs so much. What a memorable experience you are having and what a mark you are leaving there. Keep at it, my man. We'll all be reliving the Jim story at our reunion and missing you so much.
ps - I wish I had the job of shopping for furniture with someone elses money!!!!!
OOOOh...buba...How I wish I would of packed your"chicks dig us-hers" T-shirt for your trip. I should have been a little more perceptive of your needs for your over seas "dazel em' with your dance moves night out!!" We all knew that it would happen sooner or later...I'm sure dancing in Africa will never be the same...
It is so great reading about all the fun your having...it's almost like a story book adventure and not an internship at all (cough cough)
BUT, in all seriousness, touching lives with your laughter, smile and dance moves is a gift...I'm sure the Lord is pleased that you are exactly where you need to be.
I seen Damon at the all Tec Re-Union (#50) and he said to let you know that he'll be praying for you and he's proud of you.
It's hot here at home and I've had to spend a lot of time at the pool. That can be a very lonely place, buba, very lonely. Somehow, day in and day out, I muster up the courage to float it alone.
(I'm helping to keep the chemicals mixed up)
as a matter of fact...I believe I'm a little late right now....
Loving your blogs...and Loving you...to the moon and back X's 2,
mom
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