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30.August.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

One joy expected, another given

From C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra:”…it may be, one finds a different fruit and not the fruit one thought of. One joy was expected and another is given. But this I had never noticed before–that the very moment of the finding there is in the mind a kind o…
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16.August.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

Take a photograph, ’cause this ain’t gonna last…

The last few weeks have felt largely surreal. I’m not in South Africa anymore, and it’s still hard to take in the fact that I’m not returning. As I said goodbyes, person after person asked me when I’d be back. I reassured many friends that I’ll visi…
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9.August.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

Malaysia

Every four years, CRM missionaries from around the world gather for a Worldwide Conference, and this year we met in Langkawi, Malaysia. I left behind winter in South Africa and arrived in Malaysia to spend a week in humid, 90-degree weather on the bea…
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9.August.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

Since I’ve Been Gone

In the rush of leaving, I didn’t manage to post photos of last goodbyes in South Africa. Now these seem ages ago and continents away… the latter of which is true.Dinner & movie night with Sarah, Busi, and Lizzy before Lizzy left for Limpopo where…
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6.July.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

Catching up

It’s hard to believe the World Cup is nearly over… which means my time in South Africa is nearly over as well. Here are some pictures of what I’ve been up to over the past few weeks.World Cup Opening MatchI went with some friends to a public viewing …
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2.June.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

World Cup Geography

A friend forwarded this picture to me today, with the subject line: “Don’t be surprised if no Americans make it to the World Cup…”
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31.May.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

Learning instead of consuming

The following passage, quoted in Gordon T. Smith’s Courage & Calling, stuck out to me during a day of reading yesterday:”Learning is perhaps the only pleasure that might replace increasing consumption as our chosen mode of enriching experience. Someda…
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27.May.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

Exploring Kruger

Last week I went on a short trip to Kruger National Park, for a couple days of game drives–exploring the park and looking for animals. The nature of a game drive, which I always forget until I’m in the middle of one, is that there are long periods of …
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15.April.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

Correspondence

I’ve been going through lots of boxes, clearing stuff away in preparation for leaving South Africa in a few months. And yesterday I discovered that I’ve kept nearly every card, letter, or postcard sent to me here over the past couple years. It was so…
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12.April.2010

Barbara Hillaker, South Africa

Kids with Cameras

My good friend Sarah Woolley has been teaching an 8-week photography class for kids in Soshanguve for the past couple months. She’s using her talent for photography to teach these kids to look a little differently at their world, and to capture it on …
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