Nigerian Highlights

- all the fresh fruit I could hope for! Pineapple, bananas, papaya...
- beautiful, colorful, bright, bold cloth
- going to the bathroom in the bush :)
- singin' along with a banjo
- throwing my Frisbee as far as I could and watching the children run after it
- seeing the tamarind tree where the Church of the Brethren began in Garkida
- fried plantains!
- the universal language of smiling and laughter
- leading a devotion on Fruits of the Spirit
- dumping water on my head as a form of showering
- playing with children everywhere I go
- washing clothes by hand
- being called the 'young and strong girl' around the EYN compound
- seeing someone carrying a couch on his head while riding a motorcycle...no joke!
- singing a medley on Down by the Riverside and When the Saints go marching in at every church we visited
- attending a naming ceremony and holding the new born baby
- being able to see the bright stars every night
- hearing stories
- eating hard boiled eggs for breakfast
- my first attempt at bartering (I'm not very good at it)
- playing hand games with the girls from the primary school
- being told that coffee is a man's drink and tea is a woman's drink ;)
- the big white-toothed smiles of the children
- watching a Nigerian film
- trekking up a mountain in Gavva to the water source for the village
- ICE CREAM!
- all the various choirs at the churches we visited...amazing music
- worshiping at the largest EYN church (3ooo members), EYN Polo in Maidugari
- receiving a gift of beautiful cloth
- eating fried grasshoppers with peppe
- attempting to learn Hausa
- being asked by girls and young women to be friends. just like that.
- receiving a gift of ground nuts (peanuts)
- being bahago (left handed)
- visiting Yankari Game Reserve
- MANGO'S!
- swimming in Wikki Warm Springs...soooo refreshing and wonderful!
- the baboons getting into my room and then having a song written about it!

And many many more! This list gives you a taste of what I experienced and saw!