Expedition Gurls By: Passport Edpedition Girls Parody of "California Gurls" By: Katy Perry Greetings loved ones Welcome to the land of freedom   I know a place Where we’re spending our semester Warm, wet and wild Please don’t drink the unclean water Sippin’ chai and Coke Layin’ underneath the shade trees The boys buy us goats Trying to get with Naitoti   You can travel the world But nothing comes close tour African hosts Once you’re preaching with us You’ll be falling in love with God   [Chorus:] Expedition Girls we’re...

It was mid-day in the peak of the hot Malawian sun, making water run #who-knows-what-at-this-point, about halfway up the final hill of the mile-long stretch.  20 liters of water on my back (this is real heavy), thick sand shifting under my feet with every step, my crooked shoulders feeling like they have about had it.  I stop and bend over, shifting the weight to rest on my back. The sun still beating, I look straight down at my feet caked black with dirt, sweat drips off my face and down my sun-burned arms.  All alone, I smile.  I smile big, and all I can think is,...

     There is no way to possibly count how many Malawians our team encounters in a day. Dozens, and on certain occasions, hundreds even. The language barrier offers minimal conversation, but somehow, every man woman and child knows how to greet us with a friendly hello. A typical interaction will sound something like this; “Hello! How are you?” “I’m fine, how are you?” “Fine, thank you”           Sounds pretty standard, right? In fact, it sounds a whole lot like the brief small talk and...

Hello from Senga Bay! After a very long and very interesting 5 days of travel, our team finally did make it to Malawi.  We are loving it and are so thankful for the week and a half that we have spent here so far! And for a little update on what we have been up to… The 14 of us are living together here in our small brick room that has so quickly become home.  We don’t have electricity or any power, but oh do we love it.  The compound we are staying at is on a hill that is surrounded by some more rural villages, and thankfully within walking distance and within...

     I'm sitting on a bunk at Milimani, the hostel we"ve been blessed enough to call our home twice on our journey in Africa. We have less than 12 hours before a multi day trip to Malawi. Watching my team mates pack up for the next leg of our adventure is SO amazing. We're bringing more than luggage into Malawi. We're bringing the fire that's been ignited here at debfief. We're bringing a love that's been growing and growing within our team over the past few weeks. We're bringing a mighty army to shake the ground of Malawi. And I'm SO...

31,680 minutes. 31,680 moments so dear. 31, 680 minutes, how do you measure our time in Tanzania? In BANANAS. Our team has eaten more bananas than we ever thought possible in our 3 weeks in Moshi. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and all times in between. We were incredibly blessed by the abundance of fresh produce and wonderful cooking of our Tanaznian mama. In an attempt to make meals more interesting, my team mate, Chaunseen, and I posed with our bananas at meals. I called it, the bananny diaries. Here's a few snapshots!!