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Hello Loved Ones, It is Saturday morning so I am at the cyber cafe updating the world on my life. This week has been interesting. I was hit with some stomach issues this week. Nothing that kept me from working each day but it's just left my stomach unsettled. I have pretty much lost my appetite for all food. It's not that I don't like the Kenyan food anymore, its just that I feel queasy when I think about eating it. I will get over it I'm sure. This week I got to help a huge church run VBS at the main center. It was a wonderful week. I helped with the snacks and just got to spend a lot of great time with some really awesome kids. I love what I'm doing. I have been spending some good time with the people in my group. We have done a lot of laughing and singing and dancing in the past few days. I have learned a lot about who God is and how He is working here this week. One God story that really sticks out was on last Sunday. I was feeling a little bit down in t...

Well, we have been in Nairobi for over a week now. It is crazy here. There are so many people in this city. There is so much brokenness and despair. I honestly have never seen anything like this in my life. I thought I had prepared myself for this summer - but I have quickly realized that I was not as ready as I thought. I have been feeling a wide variety of emotions but the biggest emotion I have been feeling lately is fear. It's strange though because I figured I would be scared walking around this city. But that doesn't really scare me at all. We stick out SO MUCH here. We are the "Mzungus" (white people) and people stare everywhere we go. There is no blending in with the crowd in this city. It's strange because it does not really make me feel uncomfortable or nervous, just a little bit awkward. The public transportation we use here is NUTS. There are these vans or buses called "Matatus". Pretty much they drive by and you have to jump on before they...

Hi all! So here I am in Kenya! This has been the most amazing experience. I spent a week in training and then last Thursday we set off for Chicago. Our very first flight was canceled and so our plans changed rather quickly. We ended up flying to Chicago on Thursday night and then were put up into a really nice hotel. We then got up at 4 in the morning and flew to London. By the time we got to London it was very late and there were no connecting flights to Nairobi, so American Airlines got us another hotel in London! There was no flight until 8 p.m. the next day, so poor us, we had a whole day in London to play! That was so amazing!!! London is beautiful. We hopped on our plane at 8 and then flew to Kenya. Our flight arrived at 6:00 am. Over all we flew around 17 hours - and I think I slept for maybe 2 of them... needless to say I was TIRED. When we were picked up we had a whole day ahead of us. This place is amazing. Missions of Hope International is all about helping this communit...