I suppose I should have posted a new entry when I arrived home a week ago, but, as you can imagine, things have been busy. I did spend a day in Amsterdam on my way back and stayed with a friend. I saw Anne Frank's House, the National Art Museum,

It's finally here. I let Tenwek Thursday morning and have been staying here n Nairobi with a friend. I fly out tomorrow night. Thank you all for your support and encouragement over the past two years. I hope to post again once I am safely home.

I am finally managing to do something I have been wanting to do for a long time--go into the operating room. Not as the patient or the doctor, but just an observer.Tomorrow morning, 9ish, they tell me. I opted out of the amputation they had scheduled

Today the first of many families/people left Tenwek for the US. By August, five of the seven missionary families living here will have left for a year (at least)-long furlough. (Of course, there will be more coming back from the US to make up for tha

This will likely be one of last entries from Kenya. We finished school a week ago today and have been testing this week. I leave Tenwek in a week and fly to th US a few days after that. I obviously am having mixed feelings about leaving--I am lo

So far I have used this blog merely as a way to communicate with friends and family while I live overseas, rather than a way to comment on news/politics/current events.However, I found this article (America's Safety Catch ) on the BBC website par

I really don’t have an excuse this time for not posting for an entire month. It’s pitiful and I am well aware of that.I do have something of a reason, though. I was on vacation for a few days, which really doesn’t account for the en

I am going to blame the current lack of updates on computer problems. For a while, every time I tried to load the entry editor on my blog, the browser would automatically quit on me.Finally, I sorted out the settings issue with one of my other browse

This is Lisette's Mother, again.  Two emails got through this morning. Here are excerpts from those emails: Saturday, March 15:The power has been going in and out this week and, consequently, so has the internet. I am not sure if they are tu

For some reason, none of my pics are showing up in the blog, even on my browser. I am working on it, but in the meantime, to see my Athens pictures, go to my flickr album. Thanks.

I took over 1,200 pictures in Athens, so I am going through them slowly by slowly, as they say here. I have uploaded my pics from the first day I was there and I think these below are my favorites. I am hoping to upload one set a day--so by Friday I

I don't have time to write much, but we are very very excited about the most recent developments in the peace talks . In fact, the day after the peace deal was signed, many were wishing each other a "Happy New Year". Because there had b

Things have been very quiet here since my return on Monday.Unfortunately, the internet has been down most of the week. I am working on dial-up right now, as I can't get on wireless. that means I have been online for an hour and have read eleven o

Lisette's mother, again.  Lisette called around 10:30 a.m. eastern this morning to say that she has arrived safely at Tenwek.  She and Donald had an uneventful trip, although they had some delays leaving Nairobi.Her classes begin again

This is from Lisette's mother. She had hoped to get a blog entry posted, but has not been able to.  Lisette is safely back in Nairobi and is staying tonight at the Hampton guest house there, her favorite place to stay in Nairobi.Tomorrow mor

I can''t believe I have waited this long to post an update. I am in Athens!!!So far I have loved it. . .or most of it. The week started out very cold and rainy, which isn't much fun when all the things I had planned to do involved being o

Things are still moving along over here, in many ways.Things seem very calm around us, which I think is a bit deceiving.   There are still reports of violence targeting specific ethnicities,  even close to here. It seems strange to thi

We are back here at Tenwek, thankful for a very safe journey. The adoption court date went well on Friday--thank you to all who were praying. The judge was new and very efficient--they were in and out within a half hour. Because I was not involv

It may be Wednesday, but I am finished with my school week! For the first time in three months, I am going to spend the weekend in Nairobi. There has been violence in some areas of the country in the last week or so, but we hear from missionaries in

We have just finished up a busy two weeks--the first two weeks of our second semester. It's hard to believe that it will also be my last.We have had some changes--one of the moms, who was once a fitness instructor, has taken over my middle school

<a title="Sunrise at Turi" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/59194754@N00/2156780663/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/2290/2156780663_ec3bb999bc_m.jpg" border="0" /></a>On a cheerier note

Plenty of rumors seem to be flying around about the situation here in Kenya, so I will tell you what I know about the events around here.To give you some background, the presidential election last week has divided the nation. The incumbent president,

I am sure at least some of you have heard about Kenya in the news. The riots over last week's presidential election have gotten pretty bad in Nairobi and some of the other cities. Thankfully, things are quiet around here. We do not expect much di

So the elections have not gone off as peacefully as planned. They still have not announced the results from Thursday's presidential election and there are riots in a number of areas, specifically in Nairobi. Things are quiet here, but the America

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!As usual, s have been very busy around here, even without school. Last Sunday (Dec 23rd) a group from our church visited the Bomet prison. It was a very interesting experience. I wasn't sure they would let women