Aussie Joy's Life

I’m sitting at ‘Classic Coffee’ in the quaint city of Glendora grateful to see the June gloom clearing and the sun beginning to shine and California become all that it known for! I’ve been back  in the United States from Sierra Leone now for just a couple of days recovering from jetlag and catching up [...]

Found myself wondering why Sierra Leonean blokes were so ripped… check out this for a workout. Squats then lifting weights (bowls full of gravel or concrete) above their heads to pass to the next person… and all in sync with each other! Everything built by manual labour here. Every rock, rio and concrete is manually [...]

I’m writing tonight from the ‘Harmony Hotel’ (highly recommend this place if you ever come here. Its close to the airport, run by a honest Christian man who understands Western Culture) in Lungi, Sierra Leone. I’m lathered in mosquito repellant and have just finished watching the British tie in the World Cup against Algeria with [...]

Today I got to visit a school for the International Day of the African Child. In Soweto, South Africa, thousands of black school children took to the streets in 1976, in a march more than half a mile long, to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught [...]

Today we visited Freetown, Sierra Leone to run some errands and visit the Logos Hope. Firstly I exchanged some American dollars. Things you should know about currency exchange in Sierra Leone… -          you will get more for your buck if you exchange $100 bills and they most likely wont even take a $1 bill -          [...]

Well! I’m in Sierra Leone, Western Africa. We landed last night at around 8pm. I flew the last leg – London to Freetown on BMI. It was a really fun flight. Everyone ‘congregated’ in the aisles talking and visiting with each other. VERY different to what’s even ‘allowed’ on US and AUS flights. I met [...]

The story of how I ended up on this flight to Sierra Leone, Western Africa… Ever since Mark Warren from Global Benefit made me watch the movie, Blood Diamond and getting to know ‘Robert and Ruth Searches’ who work with Living Waters International (LWI) in Sierra Leone I’ve felt a stirring in my heart to [...]

Woohoo! I’ve found a moment to work out how much money was raised at my party… wait for it… $610! Thank you so much for your support of this incredible need in Sierra Leone. Every cent will go directly to Living Waters International. It’s so humbling to think how far the ‘American dollar’ (at this [...]

Thanks for the birthday wishes friends! You guys rock my world! I’m so grateful for friends… those I see every day or two… those I see once a year… those I just manage to stay in contact with via email, facebook or phone calls… those who I haven’t yet met but come and say g’day [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVqqj1v-ZBU] This Christmas Alabaster Box is partnering with Global Benefit to do something different. In the little town of Chipley Florida, hundreds of youth are filling baby bottles with money they have raised and bringing it to the Alabaster Box “We will not be Silent” Christmas show. It’ll be a night of rock’n’rollin’ Christmas Carols [...]