well my friends,
These seems to be the end of Lauren and I's story here in Zambia! Tomorrow we will head to Ndola so we can get on our plane on Saturday afternoon, Then 36 hours later we will end up in KC for a few days then i will be off to WI and Lauren will be going home! It will seem weird to be home!!! we have had a wonderful time here. We have done different surveys, talked to many people, loved many children, shared many stories, laughed with many people! We have helped many people with in there! and we have had a wonderful time together. we can not wait to tell you all of our stories when we get back!
We love you very much!
Wish us a safe trip!
Colleen
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
hello hello hello!!
Hi everyone! Lauren and I are doing well. We are enjoying our last few days here in Zambia! This past sunday we ran the sunday school classes. I did the adults and Lauren did the children! It was a lot of fun! This week i am doing the sunday school and Lauren is doing the sermon. We spent time at the Kasompe school and feed the children on Friday. They had some beans and veggies and nshimna. We ate along with them. and man did it taste good!!! Monday we went to do visits at the hospital and we also served them lunch. They had beans and rice, but we didnt eat with them because the hospital doesnt feed outsiders! it was really nice to go and visit the people there! Other then that we have been doing really well and staying healthy! We have been drinking our fair share of pinapple fanta and wishing that they would make it in the US! ten days till we get on the plane right around things time! Ill try and post one last time before we leave!
WE miss you all!
Colleen and Lauren Marie!
WE miss you all!
Colleen and Lauren Marie!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
hello all you crazy blog readers out there!!
Well well well! Welcome back to Africa! we have been doing really well. We are now enjoying the church part of our trip!
Yesterday we went into the community with the womens group. we went to four different homes to pray for the people that are in need. The first lady that we went to see lived in a two room house with her two children and she had a baby on the way. her and her her husband were separated. they live in a area of about four other families were they all same one small bathroom. They cook outside and have only one light to use in each room for power. It was pretty incredible to see something like that!
We have not had a whole lot of power over the last two days and have gotten to cook some outside with Catherine and her family. We also dont have a lot of water coming in the house either. It is a great adventure. When you wake up you are not sure what you are going to have, so you might as well enjoy the day!
Today we are heading to a bible study at the church this afternoon. Tomorrow is youth group! Sunday i am running the bible study at church! that should be a lot of fun!
We are trying to learn many words and work within the culture. it has been fun!
WE leave for the states on the 31, but we will be back to blog before then!
We love and miss you all!
Colleen and Lauren Marie
Yesterday we went into the community with the womens group. we went to four different homes to pray for the people that are in need. The first lady that we went to see lived in a two room house with her two children and she had a baby on the way. her and her her husband were separated. they live in a area of about four other families were they all same one small bathroom. They cook outside and have only one light to use in each room for power. It was pretty incredible to see something like that!
We have not had a whole lot of power over the last two days and have gotten to cook some outside with Catherine and her family. We also dont have a lot of water coming in the house either. It is a great adventure. When you wake up you are not sure what you are going to have, so you might as well enjoy the day!
Today we are heading to a bible study at the church this afternoon. Tomorrow is youth group! Sunday i am running the bible study at church! that should be a lot of fun!
We are trying to learn many words and work within the culture. it has been fun!
WE leave for the states on the 31, but we will be back to blog before then!
We love and miss you all!
Colleen and Lauren Marie
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
this internet is killing me!!!
i live in a fast pace world where everything moves right along and goes pretty smooth! I am getting that feeling in Africa as well but this internet cafe is killing me. i knew that it would be slow, but today is the worst!
Otherwise we are doing well. our survey in Kasompe is going very well and we should be done that by friday. then we will do church work. I got to see a lot of my little children friends that go to school in Kasompe. That was wonderful!
We are both doing really well and dont have to much to blog about but we wanted you all to know that we are thinking of you and that we love you all very much!
24 days left here and we are excited to be here those days!
Miss you and love you all
Colleen and Lauren Marie!
Otherwise we are doing well. our survey in Kasompe is going very well and we should be done that by friday. then we will do church work. I got to see a lot of my little children friends that go to school in Kasompe. That was wonderful!
We are both doing really well and dont have to much to blog about but we wanted you all to know that we are thinking of you and that we love you all very much!
24 days left here and we are excited to be here those days!
Miss you and love you all
Colleen and Lauren Marie!
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Welcome to the home land of the African Queen....
...for those of you who know Manasseh you might have heard that she lives in Chingola, Zambia. Well that is where Lauren and I have settled down for the next month.
Why havent we blogged in almost two weeks you ask???
Well the first week we spend in a small town just outside of Ndola, which i think is spelled like Chipulukusu, but people who know me know that i cant spell at all!!!!
What did we do there?? Well let me tell you! Last years world service corps members went and asked the community what they needed most in the town and they said a school. So Health Ed Connect put a community school in the C of C building. This year Lauren and I went and asked the families of the school and the children how the children dealt with different things in life and what their meals were like! That way Health Ed Connect can work to build a psyco/soc division for the community. That took us a week to get all the surveys done. The community health workers work really hard and we completed 150 for the Graceland Nursing students to look over.
While we were there we stayed with a WONDERFUL family. They had two sons, Abel 14 and Derek 17. they took us all around the village and helped us whenever we needed them to. We gave them fake tatoos and taught them how to play nerdz. They gave us memories that will last a lifetime. A lot of them caught on film! it was very hard to leave them. We also went to the bathroom in a hole and showered out of a bucket!!
Then earlier this week we spend sometime in Zamtan. Another wonderful village where we were greeted by a bunch of young men from the church, which took us around the village. Our days were shorter in Zamtan because we just asked what the community needed the most. We will see what they say when we add up the surveys. There we watched a lot of world cup and went to peoples houses to pray for them for different reasons. We lived a lot by flash light as well because they had no power in their houses. We also got to pee in a hole!!
SO over all we are doing well and enjoying our time here as well as our time together. We have settled down for the next month and will be doing more surveys as well as working with the church and enjoying our church family. The prayers are wonderful and we can feel the love you send us. Thanks for everything!
Colleen and Lauren Marie
Why havent we blogged in almost two weeks you ask???
Well the first week we spend in a small town just outside of Ndola, which i think is spelled like Chipulukusu, but people who know me know that i cant spell at all!!!!
What did we do there?? Well let me tell you! Last years world service corps members went and asked the community what they needed most in the town and they said a school. So Health Ed Connect put a community school in the C of C building. This year Lauren and I went and asked the families of the school and the children how the children dealt with different things in life and what their meals were like! That way Health Ed Connect can work to build a psyco/soc division for the community. That took us a week to get all the surveys done. The community health workers work really hard and we completed 150 for the Graceland Nursing students to look over.
While we were there we stayed with a WONDERFUL family. They had two sons, Abel 14 and Derek 17. they took us all around the village and helped us whenever we needed them to. We gave them fake tatoos and taught them how to play nerdz. They gave us memories that will last a lifetime. A lot of them caught on film! it was very hard to leave them. We also went to the bathroom in a hole and showered out of a bucket!!
Then earlier this week we spend sometime in Zamtan. Another wonderful village where we were greeted by a bunch of young men from the church, which took us around the village. Our days were shorter in Zamtan because we just asked what the community needed the most. We will see what they say when we add up the surveys. There we watched a lot of world cup and went to peoples houses to pray for them for different reasons. We lived a lot by flash light as well because they had no power in their houses. We also got to pee in a hole!!
SO over all we are doing well and enjoying our time here as well as our time together. We have settled down for the next month and will be doing more surveys as well as working with the church and enjoying our church family. The prayers are wonderful and we can feel the love you send us. Thanks for everything!
Colleen and Lauren Marie
Thursday, June 17, 2010
what would you say.....
if you saw the sutest little girl in a dorthy outfit, but that was the dress she was wearing for the day! Lauren and I saw one of those. She was the cutest little girl and she was brave to come and sit with us. She just looked at us with her big brown eyes. She didnt can that we couldnt talk, she just wanted to sit with us! So i got out my coloring book and we started to color. that was a big joy for me!
WE also got the chance to work with the K and pre K kids today. We taught them lots of songs, and they taught us songs as well. We told hem the story of little Red riding hood. they enjoyed it!
We are off to Ndola for a few weeks as well as a town called ZamTam. we are not sure if we will have internet, so if we dont post, dont get worried! We will post when we get back!
WE love you all and we are so happy that you are reading our blog!!!
Much love
Colleen and Lauren Marie
WE also got the chance to work with the K and pre K kids today. We taught them lots of songs, and they taught us songs as well. We told hem the story of little Red riding hood. they enjoyed it!
We are off to Ndola for a few weeks as well as a town called ZamTam. we are not sure if we will have internet, so if we dont post, dont get worried! We will post when we get back!
WE love you all and we are so happy that you are reading our blog!!!
Much love
Colleen and Lauren Marie
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
This little light of mine.....
Hello,
We are doing well. Our "work" has been good, just a little slow. Yesterday was our first day and we worked in one of the school that was started this past year with the help of Health Ed. Connect. We helped teach 1st and 2nd grade. Lauren taught social studies and I taught english....a surprise i know!!! But it went over well and I think that the children learned alot and so did we. Then i got to teach the 2nd grade children This little light of mine. It was a lot of fun and they learned four verses. They had a little bit of trouble with the verses, but man do they know the chorus. You could hear them from a mile away! It was wonderful. Then in the afternoon we helped the ladies cook lunch, which was really an early dinner, cause it was at four in the afternoon. But we had chicken and cabbage, and Nshima! It was a wonderful lunch.
Today Lauren and I sat in on the training part of this week, where people are being treated to be community health workers. We learned some about social mapping and what the three main problems are in rural Africa. Then we served some luch, today it was beef, cabbage, and Nshima. Then Lauren and I took some time to do a devotion. It was nice, but the little children kept on coming around and making noise so we woul look at them. Then we colored with the children. It was wonderful. There was a group of boys kids of off a little ways and they were laughing at the children that were coloring, but we talked them into coming over and coloring. They were really good artist. I was very pleased. We even had one girl that did not want to go home with her family. It wasnt until we left that she left.
All in all things are going well. We dont start our main part of work for a few weeks now, but we are preparing for that day that it comes. On Saturday we will head to Ndola for a few weeks to do some work over there as well.
We are both healthy and finding some comfort food along with donuts and ice cream, which are in a catergory all of their own.
Thanks for the prayers and blessing, we can feel them working.
We are doing well. Our "work" has been good, just a little slow. Yesterday was our first day and we worked in one of the school that was started this past year with the help of Health Ed. Connect. We helped teach 1st and 2nd grade. Lauren taught social studies and I taught english....a surprise i know!!! But it went over well and I think that the children learned alot and so did we. Then i got to teach the 2nd grade children This little light of mine. It was a lot of fun and they learned four verses. They had a little bit of trouble with the verses, but man do they know the chorus. You could hear them from a mile away! It was wonderful. Then in the afternoon we helped the ladies cook lunch, which was really an early dinner, cause it was at four in the afternoon. But we had chicken and cabbage, and Nshima! It was a wonderful lunch.
Today Lauren and I sat in on the training part of this week, where people are being treated to be community health workers. We learned some about social mapping and what the three main problems are in rural Africa. Then we served some luch, today it was beef, cabbage, and Nshima. Then Lauren and I took some time to do a devotion. It was nice, but the little children kept on coming around and making noise so we woul look at them. Then we colored with the children. It was wonderful. There was a group of boys kids of off a little ways and they were laughing at the children that were coloring, but we talked them into coming over and coloring. They were really good artist. I was very pleased. We even had one girl that did not want to go home with her family. It wasnt until we left that she left.
All in all things are going well. We dont start our main part of work for a few weeks now, but we are preparing for that day that it comes. On Saturday we will head to Ndola for a few weeks to do some work over there as well.
We are both healthy and finding some comfort food along with donuts and ice cream, which are in a catergory all of their own.
Thanks for the prayers and blessing, we can feel them working.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Jumbo and Mulishani
Hello all,
We are having a wonderful trip!! We have made it to Zambia-- We are in Chingola for a few days, before we head out. But we had a wonderful time in Kenya and took lots of pictures to share when we get home! Now we are off to do Church work!! Chingola is a wondderful town and i think that we will like it here very much!! Hope all is well! Cant wait to see you!
We are having a wonderful trip!! We have made it to Zambia-- We are in Chingola for a few days, before we head out. But we had a wonderful time in Kenya and took lots of pictures to share when we get home! Now we are off to do Church work!! Chingola is a wondderful town and i think that we will like it here very much!! Hope all is well! Cant wait to see you!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
when in KC
Hello blog followers!
Lauren and I have made it to KC and are enjoying our time together. we have not stopped talking since we have met this morning, at super early oclock. we have made it through the ropes course today. Lauren went first and I went second. It was a fun time. We will be in training til Saturday and then we will be off to Zambia on Monday. We miss you all of you and are glad that you are reading our blog.
Family and friends- we miss you already- it was such a tough morning getting on the plane after so many goodbyes, but we are so excited! Sending you lots of love,
Lauren Marie and Colleen
Lauren and I have made it to KC and are enjoying our time together. we have not stopped talking since we have met this morning, at super early oclock. we have made it through the ropes course today. Lauren went first and I went second. It was a fun time. We will be in training til Saturday and then we will be off to Zambia on Monday. We miss you all of you and are glad that you are reading our blog.
Family and friends- we miss you already- it was such a tough morning getting on the plane after so many goodbyes, but we are so excited! Sending you lots of love,
Lauren Marie and Colleen
Friday, May 21, 2010
Hello everyone!
I will not meet up with Lauren for another week and a few days, but I wanted to let everyone know our somewhat plans!
Lauren and I are headed to Independence, Missouri on June f1st at o dark thirty in the morning to make it to training on time. We will spend a few days there to train and get prepared to work in our field in Zambia! Then June 7th we leave in the afternoon and head out to london, were we will have a few hours to run around, then get back on a plane and head out to Nairobi, Kenya. We will stay there for a few days and go on a safari. Then June 12th Lauren and I will be heading to Ndola, Zambia. That is were our work will start. We are not 100% percent sure what we are doing yet, but we believe that it will be something to do with new mothers and babies! We are both excited and nervous! please keep us in your thoughts and prayers!
Til next time!
God Bless
I will not meet up with Lauren for another week and a few days, but I wanted to let everyone know our somewhat plans!
Lauren and I are headed to Independence, Missouri on June f1st at o dark thirty in the morning to make it to training on time. We will spend a few days there to train and get prepared to work in our field in Zambia! Then June 7th we leave in the afternoon and head out to london, were we will have a few hours to run around, then get back on a plane and head out to Nairobi, Kenya. We will stay there for a few days and go on a safari. Then June 12th Lauren and I will be heading to Ndola, Zambia. That is were our work will start. We are not 100% percent sure what we are doing yet, but we believe that it will be something to do with new mothers and babies! We are both excited and nervous! please keep us in your thoughts and prayers!
Til next time!
God Bless
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