I have the hang of it & I'm hooked.

You've probably already seen my slideshow of Senegal  - but I finally made a Blurb of our trip w/ many of those same pics. It's my very first blurb ever! - & now that I have the hang of it, I'm hooked. I'm ordering this photo journal of our trip in a hardback coffee table type book & I can hardly wait to see how it turns out "for real".  Take a peek :)

Postcards from Senegal April, 2010 "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine | Make Your Own Book

One of my all time favorite movies

There's a new movie out...you probably haven't heard about it yet but I just watched it for the first time & instantly it joined the ranks among my all time  favorites! Check it out below & for more details click  HERE 

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I saw what I saw

Sara Groves said so well (re: her visit to Rwanda) so much of what I'm thinking, feeling, working through now that we're back from Senegal. Our trip may be history - but the impact left on me by the things I saw, heard, smelled, felt, tasted - the things that struck & stuck - are the most precious souvenirs I brought home & I trust they will help me (all four of us!) to navigate the future more appropriately - more compassionately/less selfishly.

Groceries

This is a grocery store Ramona shops at sometimes. The 2nd pic is canned lunchmeat - we ate it on sandwiches - it's basically like balogni. The first pic is of aprx $70 worth of groceries! Essentially one bag/box (no meat or produce were purchased on this trip!) plus that pack of soda. A box of Special K/cornflakes type cereal is aprx $8 U.S.! Ramona makes her own granola to use as cereal & save money.

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David bought some of these....




They're like gourds of some kind w/ seeds in them & attached by a rope. Alexis found this video on youtube. All I can say is that if David gets as good as this guy he better do special music one night in church! :)

Weee're Back!

Wow. Did all of what I recorded here actually happen?! It almost seems like a dream. Our time flew by while we were in Senengal! We did so much in such a short time & tried to photo journal thru it all but just could not keep up.

Uncle Jimmy & Aunt Ramona were SO good to us...we EXPERIENCED Senegal bc of them & bc of that we learned SO much. I admire them for what they are doing there & we understand the culture & environment & challenges the people there (including Jimmy & Ramona) face so much better now.

Interesting note....Remember how when we arrived all Justine wanted to do was turn around and go home!!!? Well - by the time it was time to go home, she wasn't ready to leave! :) She was no longer afraid of the people and their ways bc she had a much better understanding of why they do the things they do that all seemed so foreign & frightening at first.

Pics were time consuming to upload & videos took forever so I'll be adding to this blog for a while & hopefully the girls will allow me to include some of their journal clips/entries as well so stay tuned :) I posted a couple short video clips below already.