Cana Kinshasa

Je suis donc retourne a Kinshasa. Je tente de nouveau ma chance au consulat Angolais. Mais pas de chance, ils ne veulent pas travailler avant Paques, si je compte le temps de realiser le visa, ils veulent que je reste 2 semaines a Kinshasa avant de me donner le sesame pour l Angola ...

Today was a day of office work and meetings. I spent the morning catching up on office work I hadn't gotten to in a few days. Right after lunch, Jacob, Justin, Victor, Kapingamulume and Francis came to the hotel. We sat around a table in the hotel's small back garden talked about a wide variety of things. We discussed church needs. The number one need is state registration and recognition. The ...

... since my visit in October. The quality of fuel has apparently gone down too. The Mercedes abruptly stalled and the driver coasted over to the side of the road. "There is water in the diesel" he said "they don't maintain the fuel tanks anymore at the gas stations, so water accumulates at the bottom, and if you happen to fill up when the tank is nearly empty, you get water in your fuel." Something like a choke had been installed in the Mercedes (do you need a choke with a ...

... my Dad already paid for it... Now, my Dad works for the UN, which  is supposed to mean that his kids should get free visas to visit him. Which means that we totals got ripped off. :( But here is the best part. Turns out that the visa volant is only valid for 7days and it has certain restrictions.. My favourite one being that once you are in, you need another visa to get out of the country ...

... third vodka and I feel strong enough to tackle the eye shadow again.. if you check out the facebook photos you will see this pathetic adventure of mine. I dont know why I bother with this stuff. no atually, I do know why i bother. its because of you sluts out there getting all made up and looking fine(Yaz, Jackie, Erin, Briar... ), then I think, maybe if I put a bit of makeup... yeah, well screw you guys. I have tits.

... have seen my face) but it was locked. Then Papa walks up to him, pays him some money and gets in. Wow, you get paid for not stealing a car. Ha ha, in truth, the guy is hired to guard the cars. The only time he guards is when he walks towards your car when you leave the store, and stand in a menacing way in front of the door when you try to get in... The attitude these people have is horrible. Yes, I called them "these people"... If I came from here, I would be so so ...

... ways we could move forward from here. He asked about names he knew from the past: including our former association's lead lawyer (initials RH) who had come to Zaire (as it was then) to try to get government recognition of the Church. He had been received by Mrs. Mobutu herself in her husband's absence, in one of the dictator's houses, and soon after we received recognition. About 4:00 we drove back to my hotel and just a few minutes after getting back ...

Anoth** trip through francophone Africa and Europe has begun. This time I'll be entirely in sub-equatorial Africa: the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo - RDC in French), Burundi, Rwanda, transiting through Nairobi twice, and then on to France. If all goes as planned, time out of the States: 26 days. I left Cincinnati last night for Paris: Delta flight 44, in an old** 676. The flight was slightly late leaving, but an hour early arriving which was v**y ...

... turn attached to the back of the bus. The top-heavy load swayed alarmingly at every bump, to a chorus of shouts as the crew scrambled to right it in time. Passers-by seemed mildly entertained by the spectacle, some calling encouragement, others perhaps secretly hoping for disaster, but nobody was as wide-eyed as I. 2. In the evening, I emerged from a traffic jam to find the police ...

... partly because I'd only been in country a day and I didn't want to take too big a health risk, and partly because they needed the food more than I did. After dinner Généreuse asked if I would pray for the family, so we all knelt in the living room and prayed, especially asking that Victor be released quickly and without incident. (He did make it home later in the afternoon.) Back in the car we drove on to Eméry's house, where he introduced me to his wife Véronique. They ...