baylor football and amahoro

saturday was a very long day

we had the day off, and went to the local club for a bit where jean was having her birthday party. we lunch at java house on the way back and turned andrew off milkshakes for life. following a much needed nap the planning board amahoro africa all came over to the house for dinner.

after dinner everybody sat around the living room and gave a short explanation of where they are from and how they became involved with amahoro. amahoro means peace, and its intention is to connect people all over the continent of africa who are working to improve life. many of the people here last night said that it gave them hope knowing that there were many others working on the same things, and with the same goal as they were doing. the continental meeting for amahoro will be taking place in nairobi next may, and this weekend of meetings was the main planning session.

when we were talking in smaller groups later in the night i talked to kelly a lot. she lives in burundi and works with the poorest tribe in the country, which is the third poorest country in the world. this tribe had previously had no land, and were looked down down upon socially. kelly and her husband have partnered with a church from texas in their work with this tribe, and the progress they have made in the past few months is incredible. they have done all the work themselves in the building of permanent homes, bathrooms, and beginning to farm for sustenance as well as for cash crops to sell. these 28 families have built 15 permanent bathrooms, all their temporary housing, and a lot of their permanent housing just since june when they got the land on which they will now live. i found the work ethic and energy which the whole community has thrown itself into the project to be amazing.

then everybody left and baylor football took center stage.

i was able to listen to the game with no problem on the baylor athletics website. it started as good as possible, went pretty well for the whole game, and then almost ended me at the end. now that i think of it, the near meltdown at the end may be sarah's fault because the decided the game was in good control and went to bed. only about 3 minutes later to get back up after i informed her that it was a 3 point game and the momentum was against us. not really. a win in a game like this just gives me more hope that i will return for a baylor bowl game in december. it better not be false hope this year.

this morning we went to church at city harvest. it was 4 plus hours long, which is a bit different than what i am used to, and a different style, but it was good. i really liked the singing. we talked to wiki after the service about learning the swahili songs, so that should be good.