{"id":1681,"date":"2013-11-30T04:08:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T04:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:05:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T09:05:53","slug":"campus-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"Campus Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

With graduation around the corner I think this will stand out as one of my favorite days…full of laughter, seizing the moment with impending goodbyes and fun. This will be a photo heavy post of the festivities I hope you can see, taste and enjoy some of the blessings and joy of that day with us! (click on any image to see it bigger)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The ladies started around 9:30 with their babies as they worked (claire is on Miriam’s back). First they cut potoatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I<\/a>
I was kicked off potatoe cutting duty for a bit and worked on intestines … it was alot of potatoes to cut!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The meat from two goats which we cut in to little pieces (most of it)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cutting<\/a>
Cutting meat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rita<\/a>
Rita hard at work on one of the courses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Preparing<\/a>
Preparing a feast takes many hands working on many different stations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The ladies fried pumpkins for a fried pumpkin dish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The boon of Apatch is the best \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Nothing<\/a>
Nothing goes to waste, cutting up intestines and stomach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Now<\/a>
Now this is my kind of work, the work of a haboba (grandma) seriously could Philip be any cuter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"J<\/a>
J and D-man clapping and singing together as festivities begin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My<\/a>
My beautiful friend Nyadeng spent the day baking FOUR cakes for the party. I must brag on her, she has made 11 this month to bless and teach…such an encourager!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Eliza<\/a>
Eliza making kissera on a hot griddle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The ladies let me fold up the kissera into nice squares using a special folding pattern.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eli<\/a>
Eli shared an affirmation and prayer written especially for each student. It was beautiful<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The students hearing their prayers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"J<\/a>
J– listens to student prayers and affirmations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The woman listen and laugh as Eli speaks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eli<\/a>
Eli then directed a serious of fun games that had us all laughing and having so much fun! This was three legged races with the students and their wives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"More<\/a>
More three legged racing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Marta<\/a>
Marta and Una racing to the finish line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"OK<\/a>
OK we really all were laughing hard…my husband got this shot of me…I realized I “cackle” just like my daughter Flower-girl…who knew?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Playing<\/a>
Playing pass the ball without using hands only your chin..girls against boys…we won and only cheated a few times…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Passing<\/a>
Passing the ball off to Miriam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"At<\/a>
At the end of this paticular game we were laughing so hard we were crying…sooo funny!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Another<\/a>
Another game was feed your husband medina (porridge) J was less then enthusiastic, and I was told to make it messy for laughs…but it was hot…sorry honey!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tabitha<\/a>
Tabitha prepares to feed her husband medina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Claire<\/a>
Claire gets to hold baby Philip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The big girl eating table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The little girl eating table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The sunset as we ate…the food was so good I failed to get a single photo…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With graduation around the corner I think this will stand out as one of my favorite days…full of laughter, seizing the moment with impending goodbyes and fun. This will be a photo heavy post of the festivities I hope you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-southsudan","category-family-news","category-ministry-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gospelwater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}