Hey!  Courage here!  Sorry I've not been in touch for a while, but boy have I had some adventures...will update soon.  Anyways, Norine has gotten me some answers to your questions about our trip to Bali...was that ever a long plane trip...but I occupied myself by checking out the things stored underneath the seats on our row and taking little naps...it was hard, but I kept quiet the entire flight.  Oh, yeah, back to Norine's answers:
     1.  As far as games that kids in Bali play, the team kids play things like we do in America, Littlest Pet Shop, Barbie, Badmitton, etc.  We did not see any Beyblades, but the boys were pretty young yet (no boys over about age 4).  Norine says when she went before, the Balinese kids at the orphanage liked to play Uno, Leggos, all sorts of balls, and were really good at playing with anything they could find.
     2.  As far as we know, there are no kangaroos on Bali (unless they're in a zoo), although there are plenty of Australian people on Bali.
     3.  Norine's favorite thing she ate while in Bali was chicken satay (first time she'd tried it...I couldn't watch), and she absolutely loves all sorts of fruit juices that are offered (watermellon, mango, pineapple, passion fruit, ...)  Her daddy even tried avacado juice, and some kind of drink that had kidney beans in it along with gummy fruits.  She did not have to eat bugs (that she knows of), but did eat a fish with it's head still on it.  One thing she did NOT like was a raw chili pepper she picked off a plant.

We need to get answers from the church in general for the other questions...but Biggi sends out a raucus "Go, Go Dawgs...sick-em, woof woof!"

P.S.  Silas is thinking of some questions for you all...will be back soon!

Questions!!

Hello - Mercy here!

I am just back from a fantastic trip to Zimbabwe - I was so busy I didn't get time to keep up with my blog so I will have to try to remember all that happened and get it up to date now! Yesterday I was still feeling very tired, so I stayed in at Pastor Iain and Norma's house while they went to church. But Ruth showed everyone in Bubbles, Splash and Tide Turners what Norine wrote on her family's blog about her perspective of their trip to Bali. Nico had to explain to some of the younger people there what "perspective" meant, but then everyone really enjoyed hearing about the trip and looking at the photos. The photo we all like best is the one with the monkey and its baby..

After they did all that, the children had a think about some questions they'd like to ask. The first 3 are for Norine and her parents to answer about Bali, and the rest are things we would like to ask all the children in Athens Link.

1. What games do children in Bali play? Do any of them have Beyblades?

2. Are there any kangaroos in Bali?

3. What sort of food did you eat? Did you have to eat any bugs?


1. How is Courage?

2. Have you any new members in Athens Link?

3. Are you all Georgia Bulldawgs fans?

Are there any questions you would like to ask us? Let Courage know and he can put them on our blog, like I've done!

That's all for now!
Mercy

P.S. Did you know that the people in XStream decided to change the name of their group to Tide Turners? That happened a while ago but I'm not sure if we ever told you!