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
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