Prayer

On Wednesday night i was playing volleyball with a bunch of friends at the SDSU ARC like i do quite often. About 20 minutes into the game i went up for a block against someone from the other team and when i landed i landed on top of his foot and rolled my ankle really badly.

It started to swell right away, and luckily one of the girls that was there has her degree in sports medicine and was able to help me and give me advice about what to do for my ankle. I finished my last two days at HYP on crutches, which was difficult, but really cut because the kids all wanted to help me carry things and get around. But since wednesday i have been on crutches and honestly my foot hasn't gotten that much better. It is still very swollen and discolored. So i have an appointment tomorrow at the doctors to get x-rays and make sure that it isn't fractured. I am not sure what i will do if it is/if i have to get a cast since i will be leave for Africa in less than a month.

Please keep my ankle in your prayers and that Gods will would be done in the situation.

Thank you!

-Haley

Does living in Africa make things acceptable that would otherwise be unacceptable?

Since i wont be wearing makeup, doing my hair, or have cute clothes... why not rock shape ups while I'm there! haha. How far do i really wanna go?

New Swag

Im trying to decide if it would be a good idea for me to invest in buying one of these to have in Africa. It will be hard for me to take as many books as i am going to want to read while i am over there. What do you guys think?

My mom has been hounding me about finding a guitar that i can take with me and to Africa so i can play for the kids over there. The guitar have right now its pretty nice and quite large so it would be difficult to have with me let alone travel with. She was trying to convince me to spend money on a Baby Taylor which is around $300+. And when you are saving up to go half way across the world 300 bucks is kinda steep. So instead i went to the swap meet and found this great little guy. Only $30!!! Some new strings a little elbow grease and she will be as good as new. I think she's pretty cute... any name suggestions?

27 days til i leave... and only about 7 days where i don't have something planned!

-Haley

8.20.10

Today is officially the one month marker from when i leave!!!

It is insane how time has flown even just over this last summer. I only have one more week of working at HYP, and one month left to prepare myself for leaving. Its insane!!

As i mentioned in my last post i had to go get shots for my trip. I spent wednesday morning at Kaiser where i got 4 shots (two in each arm). Im not afraid of needles and the shots didn't really hurt which was great! Although the nurse failed to mention to me that i would have any side effects from the shots, so i made plans with my friends to go to LA to see the filming of a TV show. We were in line and had just got past security when i started to feel a little light headed and nauseous. I thought maybe if i sit down i would feel better, so regardless of what the other people in the line thought of me i sat down on the ground in line! Even though we were in the sun in 90 degree weather my face started to feel really cold and i was sweating like crazy. Unfortunately at that point i started to feel really sick and had to get out of line. When i got out of line i didn't have the option to get back in line unless i wanted to start the very begining again, so at that point we gave up on seeing the show. :( Turns out it was just a wave of sickness that lasted maybe 20 minutes, but came at the exact moment that i would least want it to happen. It could have been a lot worse because i called my mom after and asked her if it was normal. She said the first time she got a shot for typhoid she was sick for 24 hours afterwards. All i have to say is that if that is what it feels like to have typhoid, i'm glad i got the shot because i never wanna feel like that again!

There isn't much update beyond that other than if you would like to send me mail while i am gone the address is posted below. The best way to contact me is through e-mail, which am hoping to check once a week or once every other week! My e-mail address is halesip@gmail.com. But it would be fabulous to see some hand written letters every once in a while! :)

-Haley

Welcome Home Ministries Africa

Volunteer: Haley Sipan

PO Box 1043,

Jinja Uganda

East Africa.

Gettin Ready

Two Exciting Pieces of Information...

1. Everyone save the date... September 11th is going to be my going away party. The theme is very exciting, but you will just have to wait for the Facebook invite to see what it is! :) But i really hope you can all make it. I would love to see your faces before i leave for 6 months!

2. This is kinda exciting, yet scary! Next week i get my shots so i can live in Uganda without dying of yellow fever or malaria! Great things to avoid if i wanna make it back to the states!

Its weird to think there are only 2 weeks left of HYP for the summer! I have gotten to the point where i am going to miss it a lot, and really love these kids. I am trying to figure out what i should do with myself from the time that work is over on August 27th until i leave on September 20th. Any suggestions?

I think that is all for now... ill let you know how the shots go!

- Haley