Note To Self

Do NOT drink a large coffee and chug your 20 oz Aquafina before airport security, sit on window seat beside obese antisocial man on laptop. You will have to go, but you'd rather your bladder explode than ask him to let you out. You will spend the entire flight praying that he will decide to get up and trying to do Jedi mind tricks on him.

AFRICA

MALI

To You, With Love, From My Sunburn

Yesterday I stopped by to visit my brother and his family. He suggested that my sunburn post commentaries weekly; what a great idea!
This week getting ready to go includes moving, hopefully receiving my visa (!), starting malaria meds to make sure they don't give me neuropsychotic side effects (!), and hopefully finishing our team's syllabus. Also trying to spend time with all the peeps!

OMG never thought i'd be a blogger

Here it is. Me blogging. Never thought it would happen! I always associated these things with over-poetic teenagers. It's my journal for everyone to read. Yikes! Well, despite my fears of blogging, it's a way to keep in touch. I'm doing this because I love y'all, and you've shown such an amazing interest in knowing what's going down in Africa! You are my encouragers, my helpers, my friends. I hope that this will inspire you to to search after God with all of your heart and to go some day yourself. So here goes nothin'! L.B. is officially a blogger! (I'm taking a bow). Thank you for reading!