Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Five more days in Canada!!
I'm more than ready to leave once again. I'm so thankful for the time I got to spend back at home, being with friends and family. I've not so much enjoyed the cold weather but, I guess that comes with being in Canada. : )
To those who read this that are in South Africa: See you very soon! And for those here in Canada, I pray the very best for you this year!
Pray for safe travel and that I do get my visa and passport in my hands on time : )
Thanks
Lindsay
Saturday, November 8, 2008
I miss Africa...
I miss my Judy. I miss each child I got to hang out with. I miss each of my team members. I miss having good, deep talks about life and God. I miss being foreign.. haha. I miss trying to learn the Zulu language. I miss the church there. The congregration members. I miss my friend Andrea. I miss so many friends there. I want to go back for another year again. When I'm there I want to travel around more and see more of South Africa as well. It is such a beautiful country! And I want to go on more camping trips there too! And I just want to hang out with my friends/team members there more than last year. I want to make the MOST of it! It is such an incredible experience so I want to do all that I can do while I'm there : )
K, back to the present/past few weeks... I've been in Stoon for two and a half weeks now. Been able to see many many friends which has been great! I've went to three movies at the theatres.. pretty awesome. Been able to share my pictures and stories of Africa with some friends. Went to visit my two previous job places and see my co-workers again. That was nice. And I went out for lunch with my boss, Lisa. Got the chance to practice driving standard IN THE CITY!! in a Honda Prelude (thanks Pam!). Um... I got to go to this fancy dinner with T at the TCU place... and found out we were the ONLY ones wearing jeans! haha good times. AND GOT TO MAKE CHRISTMAS SUGAR COOKIES!! Carley and I decorated them. Took us about 2 hours to decorate about 30 of them. We listened to Christmas music as we decorated. It was soo much fun. I miss Christmas!!
AND I went to Regina two weekends ago and met up with Jenny and Helen (two girls from bible college). It was SO awesome! Us three LOVE hanging out together. We have a good time every time and every year we try to get together and meet somewhere.
So ya, its been fun being in the city. On Tuesday Car and I are heading out to Leader to visit Chris and pull an all-nighter till 5 in the morning and drive back to the city in time for Car to get to her class 8:00 in the morning on Wednesday. I hope we can do it! Then I will be going back to Meadow for a bit until I get to go to Nipawin!! I'm so excited for alumni weekend! Friends!Indoor soccer! Hockey game! Late nights!
So I wanted to add pictures to this new post.... but apparently it's not wanting to work for me...sorry.. I know how pictures make a post much better and interesting!
Check ya later
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Being back at Home : )
Africa is very much on my heart everyday and I miss it a lot! But I know that I'm hear for a reason, and probaly more than one reason and I know that being back home is a blessing from God and that I need to make the most of being back! And just enjoy being here and not always wishing I was back in Africa. I will be going back, that's for sure. Unsure of the dates yet but I'll definitely post it here when I know : )
Sunday, August 31, 2008
I'm Coming Home!!
So I will see you all very very soon!! I leave South Africa September 8 and I arrive in Hamiliton, ON, on the 9th. I need to stay there for a few days for de-briefing and then I'm home home on Saturday (13th). I'M SOO EXCITED!!! Till then, God bless you and enjoy your week!
Love you all,
Lindsay
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Last weekend we have an outreach for a group of virgins from the township here at the mission. Every month these girls get together on a Friday night and they are encouraged and go through a testing to make sure they are still virgins. The pressure to have sex is SO high in the townships but these girls have been very strong and we are proud of them for it! There was a morning program set up for them and then at the end they performed their virgin dance and song for us. So different from what our culture would think! Topless girls would not be thought of as virgins! It's so interesting/wierd how different cultures can be.
Then on Monday night us girls had a crazy night of dressing up random and funny and sharing a meal together and having fun laughing lots in a game of 30 seconds : )
So ya, there's just some things that have been happening over here lately : )
Cheers!