Some photos...

These pictures were taken from Jeff and Shannon Dyck's blog. They are a family from Peace Portal that have been staying longer term in Uganda. If you want to see more pictures of the team experience, they are posted on their blog, so you can check it out. As this is not Lavonne speaking, but her administrator (hehe), you will have to wait to hear the stories, but the pictures already say so much...

When in Africa

As I probably will not be posting while I am in Africa, you can check out the team blog to keep updated.

www.whiterocktouganda.blogspot.com

This is my good friend Sharelle. I will miss her a lot as she is wonderful, but we will meet in London in only just over 9 weeks.

You can all thank her for the blog, she created it and maintains it. She chose the picture, the title, the format and basically everything else. If it were not for Sharelle you would all still be getting the group emails, which Lana would "reply all" to (you're awesome Lana).

So thank you Sharelle, you are a rockstar.

Send off...

Some of the many people I will miss this summer....



Big thank you to Geoff, his parents and my parents for sending me off in style with a wonderful dinner on Sunday night. Thanks to all my fantastic friends who came too.
So I am leaving Thursday on a multi-destination adventure, which I will summarize in point form for your convenience:

1) Mpigi, Uganda (June 14) - Missions here for 2 weeks - hanging out with kids, visiting high schools, running a medical clinic, and many more adventures.
2) Canary Islands, Spain - To celebrate Crista's birthday, Crista, Cheryl and I are spending a week in Tenerife to relax.
3) London, England - Meeting Geoff here for a to start our tour.
4) Rome, Italy - The Forum, the Colosseum, St. Peter's, Vatican City, the Pantheon, etc. basically walking around in history (or, knowing Geoff, renting scooters and scootering around in history)
5) Venice, Italy - This city is phenomenal...there is just nothing else like it.
6) Paris, France - Crepes and baguettes..I think I will like this city.
7) London, England - Back to London to say goodbye to Geoff and hello to my Mom.
8) Sofia, Bulgaria / Istanbul, Turkey / Athens, Greece / anywhere else we want to go in South East Europe.
9) Vilnius, Lithuania - Visiting some friends from Lithuania Christian College.
10) London, England - Sharelle and Brenda arrive to start their trip while I am at the end of mine.
10) Home (August 23) - Back to real life.

10 weeks of travelling....so excited.