I‘m leaving two weeks from today for New York and then to South Africa. I can’t believe it’s coming up so fast. In saying that there are plenty of people I have yet to see since I’ve been home and may not be able to meet up with people. So next Saturday I’m going to [...]

First off, I apologize for not getting more stuff out lately. It’s been kind of busy and kind of not at the same time. Regardless here’s a little something for today. Football. Not my top sport to watch personally, but to be honest there really aren’t any sports that I really watch. I feel like [...]

New Years Eve Eve was pretty fun. I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I was on my way to one of the teens house’s from our church’s youth group. I went down stairs of the house and saw a few kids playing Guitar Hero: World Tour (the one with the whole band) on [...]

Since we’re not going to be here for the holidays and we won’t be here for Shannon Wing’s birthday, we decided to mix the two into one. It was a very merry shannonmas.

I’ll be honest… it didn’t really feel like Halloween tonight. No store sales on decorations. No kids around town dressed up as Spiderman or fairies. Not even big bags of candy to buy at the stores. But one thing is for sure: We can still make some great costumes (even if it was last minute [...]

Ok. So it’s been about 7 months on the base of Thrive Africa and today I got a new taste of the base. More of a smell than a taste. I was given a random task today of getting some photos of Enoch, one of the Basotho staff, with the chicklets that we have. Really [...]

Tonight is the night… so we decided we wanted to celebrate everybody’s birthdays even if we wouldn’t be here for our birthdays. So for two of the interns we’re doing half birthdays. Tomorrow will be June 22 which is my half birthday! Some of the girls planned a costume party… My costume is a bit [...]