Teh Lemonsmith

The other night I was walking through the red light district, and a group of men had crowded around the side of a building. When I got closer, I saw what had gotten their attention. They were gawking and gaping, eyes full of lust, as they watched a prostitute put on a show for them. [...]

I do my computer usage in the Dutch library. It’s the bibliotheeka. Is that Spanish for library? Nope. Dutch? Yes.  There’s a group of five teenage boys playing videogames in the computers next to mine. When I realized what they were doing I thought, “These guys are such nerds using the library to play videogames.” But [...]

Before I left to go to Uganda I asked people who had been there before if they had any advice to someone traveling there, and the one piece that kept coming to me time and time again was that I should be flexible. Be flexible. If you’re told that you will spend the day at [...]

There’s a dude sleeping in the hostel who looks like Mario. He’s a bit bigger than most, has brown hair, a roundish nose, and if he put on a pair of blue overalls and spit out fireballs, I’d be certain that he was staying here to search for Peach. Most days he sleeps all day [...]

Growing up in the church, I’ve heard countless speakers discuss how as believers we need to give everything to God, we need to surrender our lives to Him. It’s an important truth of Christianity, and so it’s discussed frequently. Hearing about it so often, I’ve closed my eyes and folded my hands in a prayer of surrender many [...]

In Uganda, just about everyone is down to listening to the gospel. There’s a spirituality there that just isn’t the same as the western world. People are more accepting, and willing to hear about Christ. They want to understand the gospel at it’s core, and aren’t as distracted by the details of the bible that [...]

At the hostel I’m working at, it is a requirement of all the cleaners to participate in a daily bible study. Every morning we drag ourselves out of bed, gobble up our breakfast and plop down onto couches to wait for our supervisor to start handing out the bibles. And when the bibles are handed out, the mayhem [...]

Over the past year or so, I’ve transformed into some sort of bicycle nut. I love bicycles. They’re great transportation, you’re able to enjoy your enviornment as you travel, you are able to exercise, and plus it’s just cool to be able to provide your own energy to move. So when I got here to [...]

Me: I’m surprised. I’ve been here for 5 days already, and I haven’t seen any wooden shoes. Dutch Girl: Uhhh, actually we don’t wear wooden shoes. Me: What? Everyone knows you all wear wooden shoes. How many pairs do you have in your closet? Dutch Girl: No, no, no. No wooden shoes. The last time [...]

Yes, yes, I know you all were hoping that I had been eaten by a wild African killa bear so that you could claim my holographic pokemon cards, or my sweet quiver of surfboards, but the reality is I am still alive. My two month stay in Africa was (in the most non-cliche and genuine way [...]