Lunch with Saltie, Kempho, Marc, Dwight, Kabo, Sahara and Oriana at the Reach for Life Training. Laughing with them over an traditional meal was the best feeling ever. The excitement at watching Sahara get her first tattoo and turn around and exclaim “I love it so much guys! I can’t believe we did that!” The aftermath of the tattoos in the taxi cause OMG WE JUST DID THAT Playing basketball after the party at our house where Gabby was so aggressive and Kayleigh and I collided once again Having a mini dance party with Sahara and Katie in the living room while we tried to...

Let me tell you about how Botswana broke my heart. First of all its not pronounced “Bots-wana” like all of us Americans say it. The “Bots” part is pronounced with the same tone as if you were saying “boots”. It sounds so much better that way. Actually the way they say everything here sounds better, almost like they are singing it in the way the vowels just flow off their tounges like streams over smooth stones. Everything is rhythm and movement here; even the trees seem to know how to dance with the wind. It’s just a life style; the kind that...

Let me tell you about how Botswana broke my heart. First of all its not pronounced “Bots-wana” like all of us Americans say it. The “Bots” part is pronounced with the same tone as if you were saying “boots”. It sounds so much better that way. Actually the way they say everything here sounds better, almost like they are singing it in the way the vowels just flow off their tounges like streams over smooth stones. Everything is rhythm and movement here; even the trees seem to know how to dance with the wind. It’s just a life style; the kind that...

So far Botswana has flown by to me. It is unreal that we have already been here for 13 days. These 13 days have been all over the place and pretty ‘uneventful’ in the sense of events. But if I look at these 13 days in moments they are oh so powerful. I have learned more about myself and more about God’s never failing, never ending, reckless love for me. Since my first time in church I have always thought that speaking in church would be very cool, but also believed that was not for me and I was not capable of that. However, I have learned that I have a voice, through the...

It’s the sound of sixty kids yelling and dancing cause there’s no party like a Holy Ghost party cause the Holy Ghost party don’t stop! It’s the sound of the Church Clap blaring through a grocery store parking lot as 13 girls dance it out for the Lord with passerbys wondering what they are on. Just overdosing on the Holy Spirit is all. It’s the sound of the worship song I don’t know in a language I really don’t know, but for some reason I know that the way the rhythm fills me with joy and the singer on stage is dancing that this is Heaven’s...

It’s the sound of sixty kids yelling and dancing cause there’s no party like a Holy Ghost party cause the Holy Ghost party don’t stop! It’s the sound of the Church Clap blaring through a grocery store parking lot as 13 girls dance it out for the Lord with passerbys wondering what they are on. Just overdosing on the Holy Spirit is all. It’s the sound of the worship song I don’t know in a language I really don’t know, but for some reason I know that the way the rhythm fills me with joy and the singer on stage is dancing that this is Heaven’s...