I've gotta make this really quick, but we're in Zimbabwe, staying at a backpackers lodge. Had a heck of a trip getting here... caught an overnight train, super long bus, weird time at the Zimbabwe border... but here. Long story short, things here are so terrible. Inflation is soooooo high right now. Today one US dollar = 100,000,000,000 Zimbabwe Dollars... that's right... ONE HUNDRED BILLION. People here can't afford to buy anything... and even when they do pull some money together, there isn't any food to buy. Grocery stores are empty. Like... empty.
Things are great and I love being in Zimbabwe... thinking about staying longer.
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- Evangeline S. Schultz said...
July 28, 2008 at 3:13 PMJohn, your stories and pictures are bringing back deep and good and sad and overwhelming memories of my times in Africa. Sounds like you are experiencing all of those too. Wow. What program / organization are you with? How can I pray for your team?
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