A Day in the Life of Chelsey

Day 131 : Well currently off to a football game.. I'll update today later on! And i'll have an extra  blog on the drought here.---- Update : WELL, we started off our day FOR ALL THOSE READERS: I know I said I would update on the game and drought.. but the power went out, we have been away, and I have something wrong with my body it seems. I will try my very best to update soon.. We'll see what happens.. I apologize for not being up to date daily, but it gets very busy here and difficult to do so. Most of the time I am late it seems, but i'll try my best . I am so out of date.. I am trying to update my blog, but I need to remember what I have done in the past few weeks...

Day 130: Another walk day! Yay!  We were with Ali for the morning, and cleaning up a bit, then mom and I decided we would walk! Dad wasn't feeling well, so he stayed back. Ben was going to show us another path to walk on. We walked down to the normal area we walk, but once we got there took a different route. We walked through the trees, and past some people.. into a field. Where there my shirt zipper in the back broke and paused the walk for a bit so that I wouldn't lose my shirt.. awkwardddd! Anywho, we kept on going and met some people, past some huts, and stopped at one lady's house AGAIN? Ben got water randomly and we kept on! Then my zipper to my shirt broke again.. and we paused again to fix it.We walked and walked and then got to a bridge.. that was falling apart but if you fell it seemed far! My mom has an injury in her neck, so I did not trust that if she even had a sudden movement she could be in bed for over 2 weeks. Sure I could cross it, and maybe she could...

Day 126: Today is another new church! We love going around and experiencing each! We got ready in the morning and we walked down to the new built church. I would be teaching the kids, while my dad would be with the adults.  I taught them and played with them for some time, had them laughing at the Mzungu! I brought them back with the adults and we all just sang songs with their built drum and voices! So beautiful!  We were there until around noon, meeting new people and hanging out, then decided we would go for lunch with some of the people there. We walked down to the food place they call "Sweet Waters" and got some beans and chapatis, and chatted. After we finished up there we all said our goodbyes and we walked back to the orphanage and played with the kids for the rest of the evening. Day 125 : I woke up this morning  and we had a bunch of things to fix inside the house My tap has been broken, no curtains on the so called "shower" and windows, some lig...

Day 123: Hahah, the number of the day makes me giggle. Well,well. Busy day! I woke up early this morning to get ready to walk down to meet up with my parents new friend James. James and a bunch of others are now starting up a new village a few kilometers from where we are now. They are trying to get it to look like a typical African life style, with the huts, the dance, a stand for hand made things, and someone cooking there. This place will hopefully be a stop where tourists can pay to get in (Not high prices) and they  see how an African lives, the African dances, and buy some souvenirs to bring back to their countries. It will also be rest stop for buses and such, so they wanted our opinion and help there. This village they are starting will boost the economy there and hopefully help  out the local area so that instead of having the tourists drive by, they will have something to stop for. You see the village nearby has a lot of gifted people, but they don't bot...

So here is a few of my views/tips on African living:     Living without a shower that is hot and has pressure is not too bad I guess. Keep a stash of baby wipes. I'm usually dirty anyways, and once I get one nice shower it's like paradise under a tap. I feel clean of course, and it makes me so thankful and happy. Living with bugs all over the place, not  a big deal really.... unless they are disgusting cockroaches.Then you'd better get bugspray and nets over your bed. Snakes... just burn a tire, but never touch them because that'd be stupid. They're poisonous. Living not even 30 feet from an Orphanage/Highschool.. Okay not so bright idea . You get people over all the time, and you cannot trust easily. You have to hide things when you go away. And make sure if you do so to get some ear plugs, and locks on everything.EVERYTHING. If you feed stray cats, expect them to be around 24/7 ;) ... If the people next door know where your window to your bedroom is.. oh wel...