Well folks, my silence is finally being broken.  I have graduated from College and now have time to devote to my wonderful readers.  I am excited to see how this blog evolves over the next year.  Hello 2015!

Now for the classic roundup of 2014.  This year has been a whirlwind of a year.  We started out the year in Arkadelphia at Ouachita Baptist University and Henderson State University.  Josh and I both worked on our degrees and left at the beginning of May to head back home to Siloam Springs.  We celebrated our 1 year anniversary later in May.  As we "came home" we learned it is very hard to find summer jobs.  I was able to bag a job as a nanny for a fun family this summer.  Josh went out on a limb and became a COP!  Josh went to the police academy in July.  I left my job in August and started my student teacher internship in Springdale.  Josh started patrolling the in streets October, and simultaneously entered the real world again.  In December I finished my internship and joined the band wagon.  2014 was a year of growing and gaining responsibilities.  Every day is a new adventure in the Fritz house in a totally new direction.

So what is coming in 2015?  That's a great question.  It is the Fritz year for discovery.  We are excited to bring you along on our adventure on figuring out life.

Best wishes from ours to yours.  Happy New Year!

How we got there

As the school papers pile in for me to write I find myself with a much smaller desire to blog for the most part.  Today that case is different though, I have something I want to share today.  As many of you know I was in South Africa this summer.  Josh and I got married and a week later got into a plane and left for the summer to intern with Zema.

Getting on the plane to South Africa we had very little idea what to expect.  We didn't really understand  what we would be doing day to day.  We had no idea if all the money would come in.  We were pretty much totally in the dark.  Every once in a while we would get a glimpse at our job description, but it would soon change.  Pretty quickly we just let go and decided to dive into whatever type of adventure we had gotten ourselves into.

What we found there

When we got into South Africa we were amazed at how civilized it was.  That probably sounds silly, but in my mind we would be in some tiny community with nothing nearby in the middle of the dessert. A pretty ignorant thought, I know now.  We lived thirty minutes from the mall,which was not to far from our standards of a mall.  We went to a chain grocery store to get food just like we go to Walmart here.  We drove a truck around.  We had our own house with wifi and a TV in it.  We saw white people that spoke English every time we went into town.  It felt a lot like home.

We did live in an electric fence for safety.  We didn't go out of our fence at night.  The Zulu people we worked with and I taught had a language that used clicking.  Unlike Spanish there is no way you can just kinda understand it because it sounds kinda like ours.  When you tried to speak their language it never sounded the same to them.  Racial issues are still a very big problem over their.  They use the Rand instead of the dollar.  The students do everything rather than the teacher.  Everything is way more laid back.

The most important thing about South Africa was that it is ruled by God just like the United States is.  His children and their as well as here.  We had different understandings on how life should be, but in the end we were still Christ's.  In the end we still must love and accept.

What we did there

What I learned