I saw Sar's laptop open to my page earlier and realized it had been too long since my last post. Here's some highlights in my life.
--The South Africa trips have been cancelled! :( In short my church and the church we partner with mutually agreed to part ways in search of resources better suited for each. It was sad, but answered the question I had about why I wasn't feeling as excited about the October trip as I thought I should be.
--My downpayment is in for the NOLA trip! :) $85 down, $765 to go. Much less daunting than the $5,350 I originally had to raise for both trips. As soon as my name is part of the search engine I will send out letters. Also exciting is that my friend Sarah S. from my last trip to Mamelodi is going to (hopefully) be my roommate and go group team member this trip. I'm really excited!!!
--ATLS class was awesome and I learned to perform an emergency crichothyrotomy, pericardiocentesis, chest tube and DPL. Then I got to play the real live part of Trauma goddess for approx 5 minutes the other night when we got some kids from a fire. I loved it. Trauma is my calling. My love. Oh, how I love you, dear Trauma!! We shall run away together and live happily ever after! *swoons*
--Having spent an inordinate amount of time reading OffBeat and watching netflix documentaries I'm getting more and more eco-nutty every day. What started out as plans to make the new house more energy efficient with a dual flush toilet system, water saving showerheads and faucets, and a giant freezer in the basement for bulk foods, quickly became solar panels on the roof and a compost in the backyard and then morphed into growing my own garden, raising little raw-food vegan kiddos, and sewing my own clothes!
How I plan to manage all that when I cannot sew, hate to be outside, and love cheese has yet to be decided...but I did find this amazing restaurant not far from where we live! As well as discovered that I love spelt pretzels, roasted red pepper hummus, and carob bars.
Yes, I will admit 90% of my reasoning for becoming such a little green-girl because it is trendy, but I also believe they all have a point. I don't think global warming is going to melt our ice caps and drown us all in penguin fecees or anything, but I definitely agree that we are poisoning our bodies with our geneticall engineered American diets (with a side pesticides and antibiotics, please!)
But I do look so cute in my boho getup, toting around my "I used to be a plastic bottle" eco-friendly reusable grocery bag.
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