Well at the moment I am enjoying thinking about Kenya. I read a few pages from Miracle at Tenwek when I had a moment in [pause for firedrill, now i'm back] btween -that's purdy sweet, firedrill right the middle of typing the word inbetween- ok anyway, today I read a bit about Tenwek, spent some time on the website looking at the community development stuff and also just researching Kenya. I love having the resources to just look things up and learn; hopefully the more I learn about the customs and culture now, the more I will understand and be impacted by my experiences in Kenya. I am doing a HUGE project on the Dominican Republic right now for Intermational Marketing, and the website everyculture.com was one of my best sources for my culture paper...so I went back there for starters on Kenya.
http://www.tenwek.org/tchd/what.htm
http://www.everyculture.com/Ja-Ma/Kenya.html
I like being able to read about a culture and feel like I somewhat have a foundation to build off of from my international classes here at school.
My next endeavor is to learn more about the Kipsigis tribes and people, because they are the main group served by Tenwek and that live near Bomet. These people do not represent a large portion of the people of Kenya; the primary ethnic groups include the Kikuyu, Luhya, Luo, Kalenjin and others, but near Tenwek are many Kipsigis people.
New subject:
I have so many great things to be excited about coming up! This weekend Jenna, Jenn, Liz, Brenda, and I are going to Indy to have a weekend away with Tamar!!! This will be the first time our everyday group of friends from last year will have all seen each other in almost a whole year. It will be so much fun & just great to catch up on life with everyone. I know a few ppl are really struggling right now, so it will be a great time of community -at least that is my hope.
Then the next weekend starts spring break :) I am going to visit Mike and Janet and Caleb!!! I am soo excited to see all of them! Caleb is going to be completely different and more capable of everything than when I saw him in October; the first year, kids change so dramatically soo fast! Reconnecting and catching up is something I am longing for right now and can't wait to spend time with Mike and Janet so soon!
other quick closer:
well I was gonna add the link to the chapel recording from today, but it's not up yet. Today Christine spoke in chapel, and it was a really good reminder for everyone. Often, people either work really hard to live a good life (mentally earning salvation) or think that they could never deserve salvation- either we ask: Am I enough? or Am I too much? (could God ever really love me? ect) She had a chart that basically showed how we for some reason thing that saving us is God's job and then making us complete in glory someday is God's job...but this time inbetween is somehow our responsibility.
This parallelled thoughts I had the night before when reading Mark 7:6-8. I am one of the "do it yourselfers" who want to live a good life and honor Christ in my actions, which can be great, as long as it doesn't turn into mere works done out of self-righteousness. In Mark 7, Jesus calls the Pharisees out about doing good deeds but having their hearts be far from Him. This reminds me of the danger of the way I am attempting to live. I need to repent and rely fully on Christ each and every day, doing acts of service out of gratitude for who He is and all He has given.
well I really need to go. Dinna w/ Sashi then tutoring. Can't wait to see the kids, we didn't get to go last week
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