Ihemi Farewell, Hiking, & Pommerin

Woo! The last few days have been a whirlwind of business for us. We’ve been driving around, visiting, and hiking for three days and now we finally have a spare moment to catch all of you up at home.

We found out about Todd and Barb on Saturday night. The news was devastating for the group and our hearts have been reaching out to the Bachman family and friends from Africa. It has been hard to be away from our family at Christiania at a time like this.

Here is Abbie’s update on the last few days…

yooo everyyoneee
okayy ihemi farwell was prettyy tighttt. they gave all the girls kongas and they wrapped us up for us so all of us had matching skirtss on.. pluss some fabulous head wear. we all lookedd hilarious. plus brian and theo got shirts made for them that look pretty cool too.. theyy sang tons of songsto us and gave us gifts then we gave them the gifts that everyone at home donated. and thanksss a tonn bo for the million pairs of shoes. :/ we had a gigantic garbage bag fulll of tennis shoee….. plus another bag. at the very end of the farwell everyone stood up, faced the front of the church and prayed…. for about what seemed FOREVERR! we probably prayed for about 20 minutes at a minimum. this might sound bad but when it got done it was a big sigh of relief for ALL OF USS… ha. the next morning we went hikingg at thee isamlia stone age site. it was absoultely beautiful… it was like a mini grand canyon you could say. we saw tons of cool rockss and stuff. and it was GOOD EXCERSISE too. ha. but everyone hated the big stone stair casee. but it had fun running up itt. then today we got on the bus at 9 am to take a 2 hour drive to pommerin secondary school. the bus ride became short from all the kidss playingg catch phrase and mad libs. the adults kinddaa got annoyed from listening to us scream out answers that wern’t righttt. that game get prettyy intense with us playing. ha.. mad libs were fun too. the themee was dinosaurs so they got prettyy interesting…. we got to the school and took a tour, we had tea in some room and taked about how there school system workedd. and its WAYY OFFF compared to our school’s systemm.. we also got to walk into a classroom and introduce ourselves. there were some people that laughed at us because our swahili isnt very good… lol.. then we saw where the girls ‘dorm’ was. the squeezed 12 girls in 1 room on bunk beds. that looks like a good party room. jkkk… then me, alex, jenna, senja, theo, and jessica walked with the tour guide’s assistant to the ‘playground’ you could sayy. but he showed us their soccer- ‘football’ – field, basketball court and volleyball court. and it like the old saying skin and bones. well they’re playing fields are basically sticks & sand. heheee.. then we took another 2 hour bus ride homee. >:/
i ended up ’semi’ falling asleep in the backseatt on top of all the sleeping bags. but it was pretty comfortable…so i was good. we also had p.b.&j sandwiches on the bus that were prettyyy good. and were pretty tired of rice and potatoes. … plus we had PRINGLES! theyy were deliciousss. we finally got to the lutheran center and chilled for a bit. then some of us came to the internet cafe which is where i am now.. tomorrow we pack up and head to rwaha for our 2 day safari.. whoopp whoopp. TONSS OF PICTURES WILL BE TAKENN. hope no one’s camara dies. lol. time has flown by and all our days are becoming a blurr. we cant remember if what we did one day was from the day before or last weekk. yeahh its confusing but weree good. we cant wait to come home but then again were sad to leave. we arnt sure if were gonna make it back to the internet cafe againn..? but we’ll try.
if not….
we’ll see you in minneapolis and at churchh.
loveee and miss you alll.
kisseesss. MUAHHH!
abbiieee;

p.s. yes deb were gettingg yourr comments so stop worryingg. take a chill pill.
BYEEEE>!