Just Some Summer Fun

Kersa, Ethiopia

The home team, Kersa, won. This is them getting their cup.  Then they chanted and ran out of the stadium and down the street stopping traffic and wanting you to put money in their cup.

These were just some kids at the awards ceremony

Kersa when the game was over

Kersa right after the game ended.  They were so happy!

This was the start of the game, this was the opposing team Turge.

While we were in Kersa they had their championship soccer game and I think about 2000 people showed up.  Their were people everywhere, this is one of the kids who had climbed a tree to watch the game. He had an amazing view of the whole field!

This little girl was effected by a flood in the town we stayed in. We went and handed out clothes to the little kids.

This little girl was effected as well, she brought her little siblings along with her.

This was a lady who was nursing while waiting to get clothes for the rest of her family, this is one of my favorite pictures.

This kid had a soccer injury about 4 years ago and never took care of it and it got infected and he now had gangrene .

This lady had a seizure and fell into her cooking fire about a week before we got there. She came to the clinic and they told her family to take her to the hospital, but they didn't; they waited the week until the doctors came on the expedition with us.

This is just a random girl from the village, i just thought she was very pretty.

This is just an old lady from the village, she just looks like she has lived through a lot and has a ton of stories to tell.

Just a random little boy who was following his older brother with their cattle.

This boy (the white one) is 22 and is living in Addis and is starting a home for boys to keep them off the streets. He's really a nice guy and the boys just love him.

AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well today I leave for Africa!!!!  13 days of serving in a village and taking pictures, just about my dream come true, and who knows hopefully this will be the start of traveling around the world taking pictures.  Just be expecting lots of pictures when i get back!!!

Engagement

I did my friends engagement pictures yesterday, these are just a few of my favorites:

Festival of Colors 2009

There is a Hindu temple down the road from my house and every year to welcome spring, the have a festival of colors. You buy colored chalk and then they light a bonfire and you throw the chalk all around and you end up with it all over you. I look forward to this every year!

So i am really bad a this whole blogging thing, i find it rather odd actually, but my photography teacher told me i need to creat a bolg and keep it up, post my pictures and stuff on it, all that fun jazz. So what it all comes down to is there won't be much writing on the blog any more, just pictures. So it your interested in my life and what's going on, well you may not find it here. This blog has now become my picture palace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (pictures will be coming soon, very soon!)

So i am not good at this whole blog thing, so that is my goal, to actually become good at this and keep up on it all. So life has been crazy lately, a lot has gone on.  I have moved home with my mom in Utah, so far so good.  We finally got a little snow today, hopefully we will get more by Christmas.  I came yo Utah expecting a white christmas every year and this year I'm starting to wonder if it really is going to happen!  I'm sure everyone will be pleased to know that I am now officially off the market!  It's taken three years and it's finally happened.  He's a great guy that my mom and family out here in Utah love him.  He's from Freemont, Ca.  Yes that's right it's a Cali boy.  The Utah guys just weren't making it, but i have made some of the most wonderful girl friends out here.  Shocking for me i know, the girl who was always surrounded by guy friends my whole life, now has a ton of girl friends.  I was living with Three amazing girls who have become my best friends, then there are the ones i just met and love to death.  

I have found a new love of music, i really enjoy mellow stuff and country,  one day i will get my playlist to work on here and you will fall in love with it as well, i promise!!!!!!!!!  I went to a concert at the Venue in SLC (Salt Lake City) of two amazing artist, Joshua Radin and Missy Higgins.  I got to meet Josh and took a picture with him, he may not be a big star now, but one day that picture will be worth a ton!!!! Okay not really but i can dream.  Well lets see how long it will take me to write the next entry, hopefully not too long, and maybe I can get a friend to show me how to work this thing!!!!!