The SM Team

 Here are some of the SM girls (and Drew) after last weeks handshake!!!! You know..we just doing our thang!

This is Drew. He actually spent 6 years here when he was younger in the elementary school. His family lived in the house that Jillian and I are staying in. His job here is to help out in the IT department. Also, he teaches the tenth grade computer class and will be the staff advisor for the Zamani (a video version of the yearbook). Drew is studying chemistry with the plan to take that to pharmaceutical studies. He is blogging at http://growingupkenyan.tumblr.com/

Then there is Lauren. Her main role is to be a tutor to the students. She teaches a grade nine math class and also helps in the registrar’s office sometimes. While here, she has chosen to take a year out from her engineering degree at Southern. Lauren’s thoughts on life in Kenya are at http://laurenmccoyslife.wordpress.com/

Ashley is a nursing major but is here as the assistant girls’ dean. She and Lauren have been close friends for years I believe and they applied to come to Maxwell together. It seems she has a busy job over in the girls’ dorm. We enjoy drinking coffee every morning and it seems that mint chocolate chip is a favorite of everyone in our group! Ashley blogs at http://ashleyinkenya.wordpress.com/

Jill is one of my good friends from Southern!! We've played on flag football, basketball, and soccer intramural teams together. It was a huge blessing that we were able to come to Kenya together as SM's and it's really fun working with her at the elementary school. She is the homeroom teacher for 7/8 grade, but she also teaches 1-4 and 5/6 for other subjects just like me. We also live in the same house and get to spend a lot of time together going on African adventures...that is when I am not sleeping! ha! Jill has no blog.




Here you see Karl..or at least kind of. He has taken on the task of driving us around town and insists that he's used to it from driving in Australia. He is the only SM that is not from SAU..but he did go to Andrews last semester so I enjoy talking to him about the Ferguson family! (well,  he only knows Pastor Dave) Karl is from Australia though and speaks with an accent. We make fun of it...but only because we wish we talked like that too. (not really) He helps me out with camera and computer stuff and also at the elementary school. If you read Karl's blog at karllindsay.com/travel/blog you might notice that I've stolen some of his material for this post...so thanks Karl!



Here is a group shot of everyone on top of Mt. Suswa! That was a really great view, and so nice to be able to drive up to this point...however....I was wearing too much layers and I was burning up the whole time!!!! AND, the altitude was killing me. Looks like I better work on that before we head up to Mt. Kenya.

PS....Southern should totally add this picture to their website and change things up a bit!!!