Our Travels

I don't even know how to begin to write about our big adventure. The travel itinerary was as follows:

Day 1:

-4 hours down the mountain in a cab then

-4 hours on the train

Day 2:

-3 hour flight

-3 hour cab ride

-1 detour b/c of a road strike, so plus a few more minutes in a truck on a bumpy dirt road

Day 3:

-14 hours on a bus. One in which the seat in front of my was completely broken so I had a grown man fully reclined in his seat pressed against my knees for the entire trip. Abby and I both had bruises after that. Also my seat was broken, but instead of leaning back it leaned to the side. So on every left curve I was dangling in the aisle. Needless to say, but I'm back on caffeine!!! I don't fair so well traveling without it.

Day 4:

-Pepto is needed!!! Abby gets offered marijuana. I laugh; she doesn't. We get stuck across town b/c of another road strike, so we go native and walk for a few hours back to our hotel.

Day 5: We fly over Mt. Everest!!!...more pepto needed!!! Abby gets offered marijuana again!!!! I'm still laughing.

Day 6: Bungee jumping day...my pepto is out, so now onto Abby's. We get in a wreck on the bus. Don't worry guys I only broke a finger nail!!! Abby is fine as well.

Day 7: Abby gets offered marijuana and she goes off on the man. "Do I look like someone who does that stuff???" I'm nearly wetting my pants at this point.

The next days we repeat days 1 and 2 to arrive at home a few hours before Easter. Our internet is really slow, so I promise I'll put up more pics when I can.

Easter

We had a great Easter here!!! I love Easter!!! ..."if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith." 1Cor. 15:14 Good thing He is Risen!!! Many people can die for a good cause, but I've never heard of any of them walking out of a tomb!!! Anyways, here are some pics from our little South Asian Celebration:

Egg dye was complimentary of Whitney. Thanks Whito, we had a ton of fun dying eggs!!!

These little kids kept finding the eggs before the hunt began, so naturally I chased them. They thought I couldn't find them behind this bench.

You know you are in the third world when the best egg hiding spots are behind trash.

I'm working on getting my bungee jumping video so you guys can view it. Oh yeah, I jumped off the third highest bungee bridge in the WORLD!!!

I'm Back...

I'm back from our recent travels to a foreign land. Of course, I have tons of stories and cool pictures including ones of the tallest mountain in the world!!! So, stay tuned pics and stories will be coming this week!!!

I just watched the movie, "My Sister's Keeper." Bad idea, considering that I miss my fam and its Easter!!! I think I'll go to bed to "Little Women" to make up for that bad mistake.

Peace

Yikes!!!

Hey guys,
I feel like I need to write a letter to the editor b/c she isn't doing a good job. The previous post was written a few weeks ago, but I just decided to post it for a friend(Julie). After she saw it I intended to remove it; however, I forgot and a ton of people saw it and I received some funny emails and maybe some sympathy.

I'm trying to say, now that all that nastiness is out of my system I'll stick to the topics you guys love: monkeys, travel pics, and stories of my collapsing house.

I'm heading out of town in a few days to a neighbor country, so hopefully I'll have some new stories and a pic. or two. Also, I'll pick up my power cord from the friends house I left it at, so I'll be back on my compu by Easter.

Can you believe Easter is almost here??? It's my most favorite time of the year!!!!

P.S. I've been off caffeine for 20days!!! I not going to lie, I picked a bad time to kick my addiction, but I'm resisting the bottle like a champ.

"You won't be young forever"

For Julie:

Warning: I haven't had caffeine in 7 days, and I'm totally cranky!!!

I'm fairly sure nothing drives me up the wall more than when people say this to me, "You won't be young forever, so do it while you can." I actually think people are trying to support my decision to come here for two years. People see what I'm doing as a break from the "real world." Really??? As Americans we have no clue what the real world is like. I, Allison, have no clue what living in the real world is like. I'm not even going to start quoting the U.S. v. The World statistics.

It's 2:38am and I just had an epiphany. I'm living my life like its all going to end if I get married. (I feel like I need to clarify that I made that statement as if marriage is a tangible option, and it's not.) Are you following? I think I better visit here and there and do this and that b/c if I get married it'll all be over b/c I won't have the time or money.(I refuse to believe that though). Just a few minutes ago I started to wonder where I get this notion from, and I decided its from random people. Isn't that what the world tells young people?...to party it up while you can. Our landlord told me today that I needed to get married immediately when I reach the U.S. b/c I'm getting old!!! I AM 24!!! I wish I could say that was the first time I've heard that since I've been here. I've had multiple offers from people to arrange my marriage (including a custom's officer at the airport) and one proposal from an ATM security guard. Yikes!!!


Back to my issue, I understand that in marriage you have to give up a lot of personal wants and that its not a party all the time. I get that as much as a non-married person can. I understand that there are societal norms expected of me. I also understand it's completely natural for someone to as a college senior, "What are you going to do when you graduate?, to ask newlyweds, "When are we going to meet So&So Jr," or to ask a single person, "When are you going to get married?"

FYI: No one likes these questions!!!!

Literally asking a single person such as myself the marriage question is as senseless as me asking you, "When are you going to die?"

My problem is not people asking questions. The problem is how deeply I let ridiculous worldly pressure effect me.

I think this is all a result of me hitting the life panic button b/c I'll be home in 5-6 months and I shouldn't be dwelling on what I'm going to do, but I am. I have about a billion dreams and none of them make sense or fit together. Sweet mercy, I'm going to regret posting this in the morning, but for now I'm doing it. This is what happens when I'm up late at night and everyone in the states is at work, so I can't call them.


Maybe this insanity will help you pray for me. I'm not above soliciting prayer.

Where is Nigeria???

Here it is:

This is a little random I know, but do you sometimes feel overwhelmed when you try to pray for the nations? Maybe not, but I do. I don't even know where to start sometimes. There are awesome books that lay out prayer plans for the nations, so over a year you'll pray for the specific needs of each country, but I don't have one of those. So I try to use what's available to me. The News!!! It has pretty good prayer request. Right? It shows us how to pray for our leaders and politicians. More importantly it gives us a glimpse of what's going on in other parts of the world and spells out ways we can pray for them. Today I came across an article about Nigeria that lead me to pray for them. Click here and read it and pray for our brothers and sisters.

I guess the point of this is to encourage/challenge you next time when you're watching the news or reading the paper not to complain about one of President Obama's choices or think I'm glad I don't live there, etc. but instead pray for the needs that are being presented to you.

Peace Guys!!!

Oh yeah, pray for Abby and me!!! We haven't have any water in our house the past three days!!! I'm glad you can't smell though the computer b/c...phew!!! Just kidding. Hopefully we'll get water soon.

Holi!!!

It's a little game our neighbor's like to place once a year. It's actually a Hindu holiday, but I have no clue what it means. Our neighbors barged into our house and painted us. (I know this close up is a little scary.)

Neighbor girls; they are precious...sometimes!!! The smallest one is a mess for sure.

They even put the colors on the animals.

Yikes, after the doggie jumped on me!!!

Phase 1 of clean-up