So what else? Well I just got to go on a big safari, which was fully covered by my Dad (because Id never be able to pay for that on my own of course). It was about 8 days long and most of the days were in Tanzania. I got to see pretty much everything. We saw so many elephants so close that you could whack them with a stick if you wanted that we actually got tired of taking pictures of them. We seriously saw a lot of them. Quite a few giraffes too. I wouldn't mind having seen a few male lions and rhinos a little closer, but still, we saw those at least from a distance and we saw pretty much everything else as well. The last place we stayed I actually got woken up the last morning by rustling in the trees outside. Then I looked outside and saw a huge male elephant about 50 feet out of my window. Pretty sweet. Not the kind of wakeup that I mind too much. I will have pictures up next week sometime I'm hoping.
Other than that large news, I am still working on the kid's christmas play, which is at 5:30 of December 17. So about a week and a half. Im not half as nervous about it as I was before I left on the safari. But I suppose that is for the same reasons that I am not as stressed about my financial issues as I was before I left. Things are going well with the play, and while I would like us to be a fair bit further ahead and the choir is also a little behind the desired progress line as far as learning the actions for the four songs, we have two hours of practice this Sunday, and I am sure it's going to go great.
Not too much else new for right now. Basically the only big thing going on kid's ministry-wise right now is the christmas play that is coming up quick. And then I will be enjoying my Christmas in sunny Rwanda. Ah yes it is getting nicer and sunnier here everyday. I hear things are slightly different than that at home in Vancouver right now, and while I generally love a white Christmas, I can go one year in 20 degree plus weather I think. It will be a long time for me from the last time I saw snow until the next time, as I will be getting back home in April, all adding to how much I cannot wait to get to go snowboarding again. Maybe I'll just campout on Mt. Seymour for about 3 weeks during the season in a place where people who work there never look. That sounds about right to me having been away from snowboarding for this long now.
