pics!

Here finally are some actual pics of madagascar
=D here is the link

blog pics

just click on the pic and it will take you to the album
thank you all again!
<3 Audrey

Back home again WITH INTERNET!!

well im back home again and now i will try over the next couple of days to write a couple stories about my trip. the fligh back was good nice and smooth and on time!! lol. one big suprise when i got home was that we had moved! My sneaky parents didnt tell me that. so i came home to a different house.
so here is a link to a whole bunch of pics that i will try and put captions on the good ones.
love you all and ill write more later
really i will
http://picasaweb.google.com/createdforchrist91/Madagascar2
~Audrey

well so much for posting regularly

Now i am in Anserabe which means Big [be] salt springs [ansera] and it is very nice. we are staying at the norweigan missionary language school.

so last week we were in vohemar. which was this amazing city that is on a bay that is blocked off by a reef so we got to see some fishies! and it was much more rual. and very hot.
becasue we are still inside the tropics the sun sets at like about 6 and comes up at like 5 so we were up early and down early lol. one night i got into bed and was ready to go to sleep and i looked at my watch and it was only 815.... yeah its amazing what a day of paradise will do to you. ;D

so a typical day for us in would be get up and have breakfast at 7 then walk a half hour to the hospital that was on the ocean. =D
we would do rounds on the patients were i would translate sometimes and take pictures
then we would do visites at the outpatient clinic where i would again translate and take pictures and have i seen some bizzare stuff working with doctors. and i have learned much too
then after morning visits we would go to lunch that was prepared by the director of the hospitals wife. which was ALWAYS AMAZING
and usually ended in whole mangos for dessert. so ripe you can peel them with your hands and so good they ruin you for any other mango you will ever eat. i had about two a day. yummy....

then at two we would go back to the outpatient clinic and do more visits. and throughout the morning there would be surguries that we had the option of going too. later i will put pics up of what these rooms looked like. they had a totaly of two ct machines in the COUNTRY both in the capital.
but anyways i got to go to a csection where i helped recessitate the baby becasue it was not breathing and had no pulse so the pediatric residence that were in there with me and really doing the work told me what to do and so i got to help it was soo cool. well my battery is almost dead on my computer ill write again tomarrow with more stories
love you all!!
thanks for the prayers and i put up some pics on the right side of the screen
~Audrey

Internet + Madagascar = very little

well it has been a stressful couple of days trying to get internet to write on my blog. but now im here and i will try to give a very thorough recap of what i have been doing.
well first off when we got off the airplane we had a bus to take us to our hostel thing which is a norweigen missionary guest house and it looked like this...never mind the upload wont work

so some of us then went to the market with severe lack of sleep just to see what it was and started taking pictures and now i have to go...again becasue the people just infored me that the internet cafe closes in two minutes.
i will try again later
sorry!!!!
much love
audrey
prayers for safe travels please

IM HERE!!!!

Im finally here!
it had been a long couple of days but they ahve been wonderful.
I went to the market and the queens palace and all sorts of fun places but work starts tomarrow so play time is over l0l.
i have to go though because my time at the internet cafe is running out
prayers for no blisters with all this walking
~Audrey

One day left!!

today was the final packing day.. we started with this:



and this





and ended up with this:



amazing isnt it.... =D all thanks to my wonderful mother who helped me pack
everything is under the wait limit even!!
yeah!!
so tomarrow i leave from montpellier by train to paris charles de gaulle airport
then leave from there by plane to Antananarivo
the next time i write will probaby be from madagascar
pray for safe travels please
~Audrey

packing packing packing

well I officially started trying to fit all my stuff in my suitcase today. this was the result:

as you can see, my suitcase can not close. tomorrow i start taking my malaria pills. dun dun dun.....

Thankfully the kind of malaria pills I am taking I only have to start two days before and not longer.

~Audrey

Montpellier France

well, since not many of you know much about my life in france, I thought I would give you some pictures. over on the right is a box that has a slide show of pictures if you click on it then you can see the captions
~Audrey

One week left

Well,
only one week before I leave =D now it is time to start packing.
Now that I have everything I need, it is time to try and fit it all in a suitcase....
but which way is the best way to pack clothes? Roll them or fold them? Stack them or shove them?
Take the poll-------------------------------------------------------->
hope you all have a good day!
><>Audrey

Getting Ready

Hey everybody,

This is the first entry in my new blog about my trip to Madagascar. So that all of you can be kept updated on what is going on. I will try to update it as much as possible. I am so thankful for those who have supported me in this trip prayerfully and/or financially.

The reason the name of this blog has to do with vanilla is that Madagascar is known for its excellent vanilla. I personally think that they are the best in the world. =D

I now only have ten days until i leave so I'm starting to get all the last minute things done. One major one of making sure i have everything. lol It is definitely more complicated to go to Madagascar then France.

for one you have to make sure you have all the right vaccines.

then ways to protect yourselves agains milaria....

milaria pills..yep

mosquito net..yep

42 cans of bug spray..yep

electrip super mega fly swatter...yep

giant bubble suit so no bug can touch my skin...yep

ok so maybe that is over exagerating a little bit...but you get my point...

prayers would be appriciated for all the last minute details of getting ready to go...

ill write agian soon

><>Audrey