Flying South (...and East)

Today is the day. We leave for the airport at 3PM today and were off! Our layover tomorrow will be in London for about 8 hours, so were going to do a quick tour, and then it’s on to Addis Ababa. A short 4-5 hour van ride later and were at our site in Durame, Ethiopia. The team of 8, including me, will then start surveying and designing a master plan for the Kale Heywet School of Missions. In addition to a classroom building we are also making room for an administration building, library, dormitories, and dining hall. We have 7 days to create sketches and present a plan to the client that we will go home and refine, create drawings from and send back. We most likely won’t have a large bandwidth internet connection while I am in Ethiopia. I am taking a page from my fellow Canada intern, Elliot’s, book and will be journaling while I am away. When I get back to Calgary I will upload these notes here, one day at a time with pictures. So be looking for that.




Prayer Requests
- to meet the needs God would have us fill in the time allotted to us.
- for all our bags to arrive on time and in full
- for everyone on the team’s health and well being while we are away
- team cohesion (we are meeting the volunteer design professionals at the airports and we will only have this trip time with them, so it needs to count)
- that God would impact our lives through this trip, and our hearts would always be open to those in need because of our experiences here.

Side Note
A few new pictures are up on the Flicker of a little walk Leana and I did along the river.

That’s it for now!

Lots of love,
Cindy

Camps in Calgary

I got a really great treat this weekend! Audrey and Jonathan Camp came on a little Canada trip to see me. Don’t I have the best friends in the world? We headed up to Banff Nat’l Park on Saturday for a little hiking (see flickr for photos) shopping and dinner. Then today we got to just hang out, talk and be together, which was perfect and a wonderful remedy for my homesickness. I love them so much.

On Friday Leana and I head out with our team to Durame, Ethiopia, Africa. Please be praying for safe and quick travels, that we are able to work efficiently and develop good relations with the locals.

Hope all is going well at home, yall! I miss you.

-Cindy

Photostream Update

Be sure to head on over to my photostream on flicker to see my new uploads!

Images & Life Here

I know may of you have been patiently waiting for this: I have uploaded images to Flickr! Please peruse away. They are mainly from training, and some of the interesting things we saw in Colorado but don’t worry I have rediscovered my camera in Canada (it went AWAL for a bit) and will be getting you some living/working/people images soon.

General Update:
This weekend Leana and I popped into Banff for a bit with Sharon and Sara Van Middlesworths (a very generous family we have made friends with). We got to take a dip in the hot springs up there, go shopping for a bit, and get treated to lunch! A very nice weekend, indeed.

Tonight Leana and I will be baby-sitting for one of the EMI families. Kevin is in Africa and Michele has an appointment this evening and next Monday, so we get to watch their little girls. Those of you who know me well, know I am thrilled to help out with all this. It should be quite an adventure.

Love.
Cindy