Gifts

7 Days - should have gone up on Saturday

Well, the packet finally arrived...although I think my boarding pass was missing from it, I am looking into that.  Thanks to the packet I am now in some possession of some very crucial information:

• Tanzania has a high rate of Baboons breaking into hotel through windows, be on Baboon alert
• My flight to Tanzania is about 15 hours each way
• Men don't wear shorts
• I get a full play day with Waryoba; and there is a pool at the Compassion center
• I will most likely be leaving behind all of my clothes for the men there
• Need adaptor "G" for any plugs
• There are Internet cafes' that I'll be able to go to
• Hakuna Matata is a wonderful phrase, and one that I should actually use...no worries
• gifts, gifts, gifts:  take a full bag of gifts to give away.  Everything from underwear, to spoons, to eye glasses to kitchen towels to stickers to soccer balls

Packing was a mess!!! last night.  I tried to get all of my clothes into one duffel bag and all of the gifts into a suitcase on wheels...that didn't really happen.  The gift bag weighs 67lbs.  Time to readjust a few things around.  I am also really freakin' out about giving this stuff out.  I don't want to insult the family in anyway.

This is one of the two pictures I have of Waryoba.  It was taken Christmas, 2010.  His mother is holding a new baby, which he has never mentioned in his letters.  They had rice, beans and meat.  It struck me that this was their holiday feast.

BTW...am I going to be able to recognize him after only seeing 2 pictures of him; one of them being a few years old?  Time to start praying hard about my meeting with him and studying this picture.