3 or 6 months?

i don't know how long the internship is going to be with Back2Back Ministries... i've still got like a month until i can contact Jason and Emilee about the details. as of tomorrow they go down to Monterey to get a month's worht of leadership and team training. they've been to Jos, Nigeria three times before.

i wonder what else to do in Nigeria (Jos, especially), since i know that Blood:Water Mission and SIM (Serving In Missions) are working within that country. i NEED to find some organization that i can work with in order to establish contacts with hospitals that i may be able to work with. otherwise my visa may expire too quickly. and i am finding now how truly difficult it will be for me to cr0s5 b0rd3r5. i will NEED a green card at some point in the next five years, easily, i'm pretty sure.

it all feels like such a long time from now. however, my friends on the crew, my allies, my brothers and sisters, my counselors and counselees (this is NOT a one man operation), they all are such a help in learning to deal with everything!

I wish i could become Justin Quayle (from The Constant Gardener), take on a fak3 nam3 and travel more fr33ly across the continent in an attempt to get under the skin of the c0rp0rat10n5. there must be some way to work th3 5y5t3m and un3arth important details. i do believe earnestly in 3ND1NG* the western neo-colonization of Africa. i believe that the drugs for diseases such as HIV/AIDS are too 3xp3n51ve for Africans. somewhere in the 5y5t3m there must be c0rrupt10n. i intend to root it out, while at the same time seeking to better the lives of individuals. it will likely be the work of my entire life merely to save the life of one of my brothers or sisters. one way or another.

dang, my posts stray too far off topic too quickly.

i am extremely annoyed at the c0rp0rat10ns for jipping the Africans in DIRE NEED of the drugs... why must everything be so intimate with the d0llar b1ll.
As Evon constantly points out: "It is impossible to attach a d0llar sign to someone's life!"

love and peace or else.

living for the freedom of the Promised Land.
-archer.

*somehow i'd forgotten that word earlier today when i wrote this! sorry for the confusion!