Yesterday marked a lot of new pictures being uploaded to the site with the internet working a little more dependably then before. Still I was up and down and up and down again but I got them all up and sorted. Some are in categories of their own because the categories are case […]

When I opened my eyes on Friday there was a small cloud of a headache between my eyes from the dust of the bags settling into the air and into my sinuses over the night. I laid there for almost ten minutes in the almost perfect dark from the cardboard put over the window to […]

By six fifteen the next morning I could already hear the movement of Gordon, Margie and Jim so I rolled off my mattress on the floor, pushed out of my tiny green mosquito net and slipped into the my work clothes. Moving out into the morning I was already awake having woken a few […]

As my eyes opened it was, according to the clock, six fifteen and in five minutes the alarm would go off. It was now Wednesday and I was still in the warthog room of the Safari Inn in Senenga. Moving out to the vehicle Gordon, Jim and I took the drive of treachery […]

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My finger is double wrapped in band aids for the explanations of the comings and goings since Monday. The scene opens at three o’clock on Monday as I was just stopping by the flat and Jim came in to ask me if I’d be ready to go to the refugee camp the next […]

i have a lot to write about and am exhausted. i injured my finger on sharp plastic and ruined the other finger tips at the same time. Again, all this will be written about tomorrow after i sleep. as it is now i am typing with three fingers with my pointer straight […]

I found out today as I helped to unload the boxes from the truck that arrived late Sunday night with the motivation of seeing if they got my package in this shipment from Musenga that I’ll be heading down to Ningushi Refugee camp with Jim. We’ll be leaving at six am and running the […]

Another day, another adventure I guess I could say. The excitement began with waking with breaking my fast of the night with a famous Jonathan Perez breakfast of eggs, cereal and a piece of toast. He adores large breakfasts where your body has time to digest it and it is a lot of […]

It’s been interesting with the McAdam boys to see a completely different side of the mission. To this point it had been mainly as a work horse station. Yes the pace was slower than the United States and yes the weather is completely different but I saw everyone as who they were when […]

So today over breakfast Jim told me that Gordon would like me to teach a computer class three days a week, three people at a time about computers and then advance into the use of email. This is an exciting opportunity for me and exactly what I’ve been thinking about a lot myself. […]