Archive for August, 2009

Hey FUMCC!

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Last week, Dana, Asher and I made a little gratitude & update video to send to one of our partner churches, First United Methodist Church in Conover, NC.  The video was scheduled (‘assume nothing’ has been my biggest Africa lesson) to be played for the congregation this morning.  In the video, we gave a link [...]

Funny search phrases

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

I haven’t posted like this in a while but below is a list of search phrases which have led people to our website. These are the actual words someone typed into Google, Yahoo, etc., and our website came up in their results. Then, they visited us…
red depression glass platter
banana peppers taste soap
naked baby
angela [...]

How I got my 58 words

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

If you recall this post last week, I had to plan a day trip up to Makete for 58 words which were missing out of my Kinga Jonah recording.  The trip was successful and I want to show you how it was.
While preparing for the trip, I had to plan where I was to record [...]

Dine ‘n Fine

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Dine 'n Fine

Just needs the cat

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Just needs the cat

Define Estimate

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Tail end of a bus on the highway

Roll out the Red

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Fun Night @ our branch's annual conference this year

African Pied Wagtail

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

African Pied Wagtail

Mwezi

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

The Swahili word 'mwezi' means 'month' and 'moon'

Wishing for a helicopter

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

In two days, I take a day trip up to Makete in the Kinga language area. Literally ‘up’ because I have to climb to nearly 10,000ft before dropping back down into Makete at 7,500ft.

It’s about a 3-hour trip one-way, with 2.5 hours being on rough dirt roads.
The reason I need to go is because of [...]