Buses and Taxis and Planes OH MY!

The official countdown for Outreach is now 7 hours!! I couldn't be more thrilled. I'm so excited about the ministry we are going to be working with and all the children we are going to come in contact with. Please be praying for us as we travel there. It's going to be an interesting trip. We are taking a taxi from our base to the airport in Johannesburg which is 4 hours or so. Then we are taking a plane from Johannesburg to Lusaka, Zambia which is a 2 hour flight. Then we are staying the night in Lusaka and the next day taking a bus from Lusaka to Mpulungu which is a 17 hour bus ride. There are 20 of us travelling together. 3 Leaders, 15 Students and 2 Staff members that are coming for the first week. Please be praying that we make it there safely and that we don't get too irritated being with each other for so long in such a compact space. We need to get used to it because all 18 of us will be living in one house for a month! I know it's going to be a trip of a lifetime. We fly back to Johannesburg May 13 and stay there for 3 weeks so I'm also really excited about that even though we aren't quite sure what we will be doing there.

They fixed our internet today so everyone is getting in there calls and blogs before we leave. Here is what has been happening since you last heard from me. On Good Friday we had a Love Feast at Rich and Lynn's house (they live off base). All we were told was to dress up and we had to have a talent for the talent show that was taking place afterwards. The Love Feast was a dinner just for us DTS students, it consisted of steak, mashed potatos, salad, etc. It was amazing! I haven't had a steak since I've been here and it was delicious. The talentless people in our group, those of us who don't have singing voices......made up a dance. Not just any dance either. It was a boy band dance. We made a mix of songs from Backstreet Boys, NSync and Britney Spears, dressed up like boys and did a dance for our talent. It was so much fun! I'd have to say ours was the most creative. Everyone else was phenomenal with their real talents but ours was fun and creative and we had a blast.

This past Friday we stayed the night at Lynn's house so we could get up early on Saturday morning and climb Mt. Legogote (means head of the Lion). We woke up at 5, checked the weather, got ready, made sandwiches and off to the mountain we went. The climb was so much fun but being on the top was Amazing!!! I climbed a mountain in Africa! How cool is that? I'm pretty sure we took about 1,000 pictures up there. We stayed at the top for a good hour or so and just took pictures, enjoyed each others company and ate our lunches. It was good to do some physical activity and I have definitely felt it for the past 2 days. It was a good ending to a wonderful lecture phase and a great beginning to what I know will be an amazing outreach phase.