Since nothing about this week has been normal, we’re going to keep today’s post pretty casual…
Today, we welcomed an actual guest to Ndoleleji, Fr. John Lang (picture the old guy from the movie “UP”). Fr. Lang is a visiting priest from Nairobi, Kenya, and will be staying with us for about a month. He is originally from Minnesota, so Fr. Donnie and I made fun of the fact that Boston always takes Minnesota’s best players (Kevin Garnett, David Ortiz, ect…), and turns them into champions. Now Fr. Lang is a very nice guy, however, he’s in his 80’s just like Fr. Donnie and Fr. Dan. Between the three of them, very little gets accomplished. During conversations, at least one of the three usually becomes disoriented, due to the fact that they either missed a dose of their medications or forgot to put in their hearing aids (Mame…I know that you are reading this!). Good thing none of them know how to use the internet!
Well, that’s pretty much all I’ve got (unless you want to hear about how it’s 80 and sunny every day). Oh, one thing that I have noticed over here is that people never say “God Bless You”(or the Swahilli/Sukuma words for it) after somebody sneezes…There ya go, this proves that my blog is always leading the way in the educating you about Africa!
-Sean
P.S.
I would like to inform everybody that I, Sean White, have brought the “Hi-5” to the Third World! Stay tuned for details!
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ReplyDeleteJust wondering if we asked the three priests in their 80's, who have committed their lives to teaching the history and life of Christ, to keep a blog on what they see this young kid getting accomplished? They might report that this kid is great at running around physically, but his limited knowledge of great writers, historical works, perspective of what is important makes us wonder how he defines accomplishment.
Qustion? Is a sneeze acknowledged at all?
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