I would just like to begin by saying a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me this summer. For those who prayed for me during my time away, for those who sent me messages of encouragement before I left and while I was away and also for those who contributed financially. It was/is greatly appreciated and I would like to just say thank you to all of you.
It feels like a long time ago that I was sitting at my kitchen table trying to summarise my trip and everything that was to come! And yet, at the same time, it's hard to believe the time has passed and I'm back again! I've had a week at home trying to readjust to the cold and rain! I think it rained maybe 3 or 4 times while I was away! So having rain every day here is quite refreshing, for now, although I think this will wear off quite quickly! Especially when I return to Edinburgh this evening and I have to walk or cycle everywhere! Need to bring out the waterproof trousers!
Anyhow, I would like to share some photographs with you that I had hoped to put into blogs along the way but the internet was often too slow to upload pictures. So I will try to briefly summarise the context of the photos as I don't want to just reiterate everything previously said. So off we go...
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| The Random Day I met a couple from the UK in Jinja and went to visit their girls home |
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| The girls forming an archway on the way out |
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| Gary teaching the Masaai |
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| Masaai Church |
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| Wilderbeest on the way back from church |
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| Zebra on the way home from church |
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| Samaritan Village lunch |
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| Snake Park trip |
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| Friendly baboon |
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| Flora cheesy grin |
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| Holding a snake! (Sorry can't turn it!) |
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| David |
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| And of course I had to aswell! |
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| Camel rides |
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| Doughnuts and juice on the way home |
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| Wedding party showed up to give donation to the orphanage |
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| Baby Hosea |
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| Daniel |
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| Rice and dodo |
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| Kitchen |
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| Indoor washing up area- if there's water! |
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| Mama making doughnuts |
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| Plaintain/Matoke |
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| Simon and Daniel studying hard |
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| My final breakfast |
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| Eliah |
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| Funny faces :) |
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| Baby Lightness |
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| Lunch time |
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| Emmanuel |
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| Jeremiah |
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| Flora |
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| Simon |
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| Baraka (name means blessing) |
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| Mount Meru from my window |
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| Lunch time in a bedroom |
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| 'cooker' |
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| Baby Sunday |
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| Baby Lightness |
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| Eliah and Jeremiah |
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| Jeremiah again! |
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| Little Isaac |
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| Daniel |
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| Zanzibar shores |
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| Sunrise at 06:30 |
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| Relaxing on the beach |
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| continental breakfast |
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| Zebra fish- trying out my underwater camera |
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| Tortoise aged 20 years |
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| my octopus curry |
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| drinking fresh coconut |
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| stonetown harbour |
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| church in Dar Es Salaam |
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| Blue Mosque in Istanbul on my 24 hour stop over |
So that hopefully gives you the pictures that went along with previous blogs. I'm heading back to Edinburgh this evening to begin final year of university. So I would like to thank you all for reading and following my summer progress. And goodbye for now! Maybe I'll see you again if I go on another adventure in the future!
Sarah
"And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives… and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." - Nate Saint
