Gamadubu and the Okavango Delta!!!!

Hello Family and Friends,
I'm still having an awesome time in Botswana I would like to thank everyone for their prayers I am so grateful that me out of all people is getting a chance to expeience so many things I have never experienced before I miss all of you dearly. Let me catch you up on whats been going on in my life in Botswana since the last blog. on June 24th I went to Gamadubu a rural village with teacher Shirley for the feeding project that she does every Saturday she picked me and the gang up at 7:30am the drive out to the rural village took about 50minutes . The ride out there was very relaxing for me I had a nice conversation with teacher Shirly she had shared with me how grateful she was to have us helping she he told me that she had a goat for us once we had arrived she had announced to the others that we were getting a goat! not to keep as a pet to eat the look on our faces was priceless. Me and the girls named him Billy. I was very grateful and happy I felt it was a privallage to recieve a goat. Now I told you about our friend Billy here comes my favorite to talk about cooking we started to chop Cabbage,Carrots and Onions. While the food was being cooked the kids played games and they had devotion where a Social Worker read a couple of Bible scriptures and afterwards he talked to the kids about children Welfare laws and spoke to them about certain right they have. I though this was interesting knowing some of the kids living situations I'm pretty sure the kids found it comforting to know that they are loved and that there are laws to protect them. Once the food was prepared the children said Grace and ate the meal that we helped prepare. Once the kids finished eating it was time to slaughter our friend Billy I was scared for the goat. I had mix feelings about killing the goat but I stopped and gave it thought and realized thats how they have to eat or else they wouldn't have any food to eat I was sad for the goat but still grateful for the gift. Once I got back to the UB me and Matt decided to cook some of the goat for dinner and we did just that.

Now I'm going to talk about my vacation on June 25th- 29th me and the group went to the Okavango Delta in Maun. We stayed at the Audi camp there I went camping outside in a tent. This was the vacation of a life time it was beautiful at Audi Camp I got a chance to meet people from all across the globe.Thursday we arrived there we relaxed ate dinner at this amazzing resteraunt Friday we went horseback riding and on this was really cool because my horse took me for a ride his name was El' Sabetha thank god I have experience in horseback riding!Saturday we went on the Moroko safari I was so excited we went canoeing and Leslie notice a giraffi me and Matt got a chance to get real close to the Giraffi I was so scared but very excited! This have been truely a blessing for me to experience this wonderful country! I will Keep you posted as I experience the 4th of July celebration at the embassey!!!!!!!!!!!

Kgale Hill/ Mountain!

Hello Family and Freinds on Sunday I had an amazing time hiking up the Kgale hill but it looks more like a mountain! I defeated one of my biggest fears heights. Come along on the journey!

Look how Huge this rock is!!!!!!!!! Just think thats only a small part of our awesome journey to the top! The issue at hand was how in the heck were we supposed to climb it?

What an adventure I finally made it to the top looking down I could see all of Botswana!!!!!! This is a view off the back of the hill looking south towards the South African border and Mokolodi Game Reserve.

How beautiful I can't believe I got a chance to experience something this cool and amazing!!!!!! Matt and I stood way to close to the edge for this pic!

My fears of heights didn't get the best of me this adventure was to exciting to pass up! I rolled up my sleeves and started the journey up the mountain!!!!!!!!!! (Eventually I had to come back down too :S)

Well thats all for now folks have a good day!

Stuffed Animals

Hello Family and friends today I gave away so many stuffed animals it brought smiles to all the tiny faces! Some of the kids never recieved gifts before tomorrow I'm going to give plenty of stuffed animals away it's rewarding to see the smiles on the kids faces!

Aunty Meeka!

Today I had so much fun at Mokolodi we helped give the preschool children a tour of the game reserve there we saw Zebra's, Elephants, and Empolas. The children were very manorable and they called me aunty Meeka it was so adorable. This little girl named Kelly looked like she could be related to me we had similar face characteristics . The teachers from the daycare started to call her my daughter or sister The children was so precious I wanted to give all of them a great big hug!

Children lets Play!

Today we toured the school at Old Naledi some of use are going to possible teach at the school. We helped ladies prepare the food at the Tlemelo project once the food was prepared we feed the children it amazed me how greatful they were. After we feed all the children we cleaned up and played with the children some more. Tomorrow we are going to the Mokolodi game reserve to see about working with the animals. I'm very excited for tomorrow I hope I get to work with the elephants! Love and miss you all