When we're not doing homework...

Lately I've been trying to figure out what I could share on our blog. I don't know how many more pictures I can post of us sitting in front of our computers with books piled all around us in the library! That's where we spend a large amount of our day. The library is air conditioned, has wifi and lots of books, so it's a good place to hang out! Sometimes we get to have a little fun...


Awwww... Starbucks... It's my happy place....

But even time at Starbucks must not be wasted. Some light reading... The Law and its Fulfillment A Pauline Theology of the Law- actually it was pretty interesting and quite helpful for my paper on Romans 7. Uche was reading about Old Testament prophecy. Actually, we went to Starbucks during a recent trip to immigration- Starbucks is making a killing being located right across from a place that requires you to wait for anything and everything.

So, this outing was purely fun (though we did go grocery shopping afterwards). We went and saw Avatar. Fortunately, the mall closest to us has an IMAX 3D screen, so we got to really enjoy all the effects.

Had to add a picture of Uche with his glasses, just to be fair. He insisted on wearing them walking into the theater and walking out. Maybe I can find this style in pair of sunglasses for him.

In all seriousness, we have been super busy this month. Fun outings do not write papers! We have been spending time in a poor community for our internship. We've been meeting with people there, and that has added to our already loaded schedule, but we're enjoying it and learning a lot. It's been exciting to put into use the great stuff we've learned over the last year.

We were joking while taking this picture that it was going to look like a class picture, and it kind of does. These are just some of the people we'll be working with in the community. They're all community leaders in some way, and their input is invaluable. Without their help we couldn't hope to accomplish anything.

We interviewed this woman about community issues. She was very brave to speak in English with us. I really respect any person who can even function in another language, and she was great! She did a great job of explaining things to us.

We'll be working with a church planter in the community to see how the church plant can be involved in community development. We're hoping to be able to work with the community to come up with a plan for some sort of project that could be a blessing to the whole community. We also talked about this community before, click here if you want to read about it.