you should see my view of the rift valley...

yesterday i met over a hundred hiv positive
patients at one of the support groups that kijabe
hospital sponsers...

i made friends with a guy named john...he
wants to be a photographer...i let him take
some shots with my camera...they turned out
really well...

one of the girls there wanted me to take
her home to ohio...so that she could take
care of me...i just gave her a high five...

the hospital here is the most put together
christian ministry i have ever seen...
the program director's name is jonathan...
he's teaching me a lot...it's been really
good...

i love the way they have integrated ministry
and medicine...i felt like coming back to
the states and getting an MD...but that's
not gonna happen...

what they are doing here is amazing...92%
retention rate of their patients...people
aren't dying of AIDs is what that means...


i'm finding out a lot about kenya and HIV
and even myself...it gets kind of lonely
at night cause i don't really have any close
friends to talk to and process all of this
...but thomas merton's book no man is an island
has been keeping me company...keeping me
reflective...

i'm writing some prolific amounts of notes
and travel journal style prose...it's not
too good but there is a lot of it...

today we are heading out to a children's
support group in west kijabe...meeting and
talking with some of the kids here is pretty
soul crushing at times...but they are full
of joy and strength and you should see how
they love jesus...

in africa i wake up at 5:00am and read and
drink coffee and do push ups...