Weird Cravings…

I've just added about 8 blogs....6-21-10...the first one was 5-31-10! Love you guys!

6-20-10

Being in Africa now for 4 monthsish…I’ve began having the strangest cravings. There’s the first thing, I’m beginning to not mind tomatoes (not mind meaning they have to be well cooked-raw still grosses me out). That’s a big one for me. The next thing is cheese. I crave cheese every day! I mean every time one of our supervisors comes from Kamembe, we have them bring cheese. When we arrived to Rwanda, I didn’t like the cheese they have here. Now, I’m eating it like I’ve never had cheese before! On a side note, we got a package this week with Velveeta. It is literally killing me not to eat greedily the whole thing in one sitting. Now here’s the weirdest thing of all that I’m craving. Garlic. That’s right. Garlic. Not cooked in something, simply cut up from the clove and then devoured! SOOOOO good. I don’t get it. Oh and then there’s the sweets. My wonderful nanny sent us packages of jelly belly’s. One of them is “Kids Favorites” and has all the flavors children love to eat. In America I absolutely could NOT stand buttered popcorn. Here…it has become my favorite! I literally crave buttered popcorn jelly belly’s and garlic! What the heck is wrong with me??

Today is Father’s Day. What a wonderful day. Happy Father’s day Daddy and Terry. We love you guys so much and are so grateful for how hardworking and wonderful you both are. We love you and miss you more than you know. I hope today is a great day of relaxation and family fun.


So we met this girl the other day. She has these huge indentions on her head, very deep scars, and our counterpart explained that when she was little she and some friends (all about 3 years) were playing and some baboons came up and tried to get into the field. They children started chasing them away and for some reason all the other children stopped and she didn’t know so she kept going. The baboon then came and grabbed her and carried her into the woods where he then started biting and clawing at her head. Eventually he dropped her and the parents found her in some bushes. They carried her about 5 or 6 hours to the nearest health clinic where she was miraculously nursed back to health. It’s incredible! God is good. So, Jarod and I are super glad we ran from those baboons. They are mean!!

Ok, that’s all I’ve got for now. My fingers are freezing. I love you all and will talk to you soon!