Gaining momentum

In this picture, Innocent, me and Christy. If memory serves me correctly, Innocent is Dr. Mercy's driver, and just a generally helpful guy to have around. He also gets into Nigerian soccer the way I get into Georgia Football. Christy was one of our cooks, and my takwara. I have no idea if I'm close to spelling that right, but it means "name-sake" in Hausa. She tried to teach me a lot of Hausa, but I wasn't a very good student.

I think I have just finished the preliminary version of the script, formatted correctly and everything. It's amazing how excited I get when I can actually devote time to this project. I can't wait to get into the real editing of it. Now that I've got my road map, I should be able to have a very rough cut by the end of the week! This is all pending approval from Russ and any other Faith Alive board members of my script, but I'm not anticipating any major overhauls. I was pretty conservative in my approach and went basically with a straightforward sales pitch about the clinic and what it offers. I'll get fancy with some of the intro graphics, but this is meant to be about the clinic and getting people interested in helping in some form or fashion. So I didn't delve too deep into the HIV epidemic as a whole, and chances are that you aren't going to cry when you watch it. But I haven't picked out my interview pieces yet, so there is a chance that they'll add that emotional element. They will without a doubt, I guess the question is about how much I want to introduce. Only time will tell, and you'll just have to keep checking back here until I get the video done and posted online. In the meantime, someone sent me this link the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWybv7vTJ38

It actually came from Erika, who was on the trip. I think a lot of us are struggling with the excessiveness of our lives, even in the places we don't see as being excessive. But when you know how far a dollar can go in other parts of the world, it's kind of hard not to question every purchasing decision you make. So, this video kind of portrays that on a larger scale than I deal with, but the message is the same. And whether you like it or hate it, I think it's a neat concept.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you all! May God be with you! Thanks for reading!