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| Just like Christmas....What up....Yeah, so it's been awhile....what.
My email time was like Christmas this evening....a bit....few differences.
Anyway, I learned that I DON'T have to take the ridiculous State of Virginia crazy teaching license test, which saves me like a hundred bucks, which in Addis is like 900 birr, which is like a month of living for me.
AND, good connections with college peeps who randomly had links to great development organizations I can visit, or who are visiting, or who are just AWESOME.
If your up to speed on HIMYM, that was all done in a Marshall voice.
Just wanted to broadcast a big "thanks God" for working things out for me. There's other stuff, too, that was just a bit of my really blessed emailing tonight.
Addis is good, school is really busy, life is good, probably be here for a bit of time. Bril.
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I’ll be back in the states on Friday. Crazy.
Not sure if I’m ready for that, but either way, that’s when I get there.
Tonight, I built a fire, and then proceeded to cook t’ibbes
(fajita meat, Ethio style) over it in the pouring rain while wearing my nice
church outfit and high heels for the entire church choir. No
joke. Awesome. I had some help, but I still wanted to point out how awesome I am.
We're done with school, although I still have a lot of test grading to do, cleaning my classroom, moving to my new apartment, etc. And, still recovering from the wedding last weekend.
Some interesting drama lately......God has been so overwhelmingly graceful to me that I'm sort of speechless, and when I finally started to grasp that, He started in with pointing out new things I need to deal with and process.
Um, I love injera.
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| "It might be pretty....it might be clean....but it's not enough to change the world we're in."
--Madison Greene. Sums up my thoughts on religion right now.
More info on Alli: my hair is back to blond-ish. I have a lot of grading to do this weekend. We have tomorrow off of school. This week are our "Memory Verse Prize Day" events. We're taking the elementary to a forest preserve park on Thursday and Friday. Should be fun.
Blogspot isn't available in this country, so I started a new life-in-Addis blog: www.xanga.com/alliinaddis.
There's nothing there, but one day there will be.
I need to go buy tomatoes from my neighborhood veggie shack so I can make spaghetti sauce for the youth group.
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| It's been awhile. A busy while. The next few weeks will be an interesting mix of excitement, closure, tiredness, adrenaline, and concentration. At one point this week, I thought "I just need to get through the craziness until I can get to DC." But, then I realized that if I'm not happy when I'm tired and busy and stressed here, I still won't be all that happy once I get to DC. So, I decided to be happy. God is good.
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| Some awesome things about my lifeI have purple hair, at least for a couple more weeks when I dye it back to blond for a wedding.
I get to go through Mercato, the world's largest open-air market/slum, almost every day.
This weekend several of my students met the Holy Spirit for the first time.
I play the djembe.
I got to climb an Orthodox holy mountain last week. Training for Kili.
I get to climb Kili next year!
I have, on my iPod, the last 4 1/2 years of Mars Hill sermons. Brilliant. So encouraging, that I'm not crazy for wanting to follow Jesus.....although he was certainly crazy enough. I love that guy.
In my spare time I've been doing some marketing work for an all-natural bug repellent called Buzz Off. Malaria sucks.
Today one of my KG kids told me about how his brother watches wrestling and "Pimp my Ride." Precious.
Pastor Mark from NCC has been mentioning Rob Bell on his blog.....what a great collision of my worlds. And, he said this:
"God doesn't speak to me when I'm not stepping out in faith."
Just need to find ways to step out that don't get me into trouble. Wait a second. Jesus got into trouble all the time. What an awesome role model.
I love my life. Thanks for being in it.
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