Some of these are sunset and sunrise pics; beautiful. The guy laughing is Eddie, a Belgium dude I met in Rwanda. We stayed up late talking about the world, philosophizing and theologizing about everything under the sun. He was really quality, and though he wasn't a Christian and I never asked him if he wanted to accept Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior, I talked about my heart for God, about my deepest beliefs uniting all humans, and rested confidently that whether I am planting the seeds or watering them, God is the one who does the work and He was there before me and will be there after me. So long as I focused on love for God, His love for me, and the subsequent loving of others, I felt confident to talk about anything, be challenged by anything, and listen to Eddie intently and respectfully, never wondering how I was going to convince him or where I could plug my opinion in.
Some of the earlier pics were of us loading up to go to our home stays.
To explain why these things are not in any logical order and probably don't make much sense: The internet is super slow here, so pics take about 20 min to load 5. This frustrates me, which causes the blog to be a dump of whatever info I can get on there in between classes and homework. Maybe by the end of the semester I'll be able to get a system down a little better.
I'm also able to run here. I just started up last week after not running consistently for nearly 9 months (a while after the Philly Marathon). I'm feeling pretty good and I think I've still got it, though the 4,000 altitude doesn't make training feel as easy as I'd hoped. I'm hoping to run the half or the full marathon this November in Kampala with all the Kenyan's and Ethiopian's.