5 things

O.K. My lovely wife Carole did a thing on her blog about 25 random things. Well I was thinking about that and thought I would do one, but everyone is doing that. So I thought of something.

It's 5 thing I don't want to here from my 12 year old daughter until she's 24 and married

5 Dad I'm done with school

4 Dad I'm moving out

3 Dad I need pads

2 Dad that boy is smokin hot (unless he is on fire)

and this is the most important thing of all

1 Dad I'm pregnant

Thank you Ethiopia

Africa

the cook (forgot her name) Carole, Johnny, Abel and me at the quest house

1 dollar a day would feed a family. O.K. when I would see those commercials on T.V. about Ethiopia. I thought that was a load of crap. There's no-way you could do that. those people in that commercial are trying to rip us off and take my money. Then I went there to pick up our 6 year old son that we adopted and was I wrong. Not only will that feed a family that also will buy you a bag of the best coffee in the world(and I hate coffee but I drank it there), a can of Coca-Cola, a pack of gum (from the street kids), and still have some change left over.
When I was there we stayed at a Guest House (like a Bed and Breakfast here) and I talked to the night desk worker a lot. His name was Johnny and he had just graduated from University with a degree in business. Very smart and nice man. We talked about his country and my country. He asked if there were poor people in America and was shocked when I told him yes. He thought all Americans were rich. I asked him what a construction worker makes and he told me around 800 bir a month ($80). There was a lot of construction work going on in the city. He also said that it was hard to find a good job there and that why he was working at the Guest House. (I think he was a Angle from God sent there for us.) He helped us out so much by telling us what the kids were saying,took us to a shop to get a back-pack when mine broke and would not let us carry anything no matter how hard I tried to get it from him. I gave him my Steeler's hat that I brought with us and he would not stop saying thank you every time I would see him he would have it on.
I have so much more to say but words would do it no Justise
Thanks for all your prayer
Dean

Steele's first LSU game

And it was a first for our entire family to go together.

LSU football scheduel

Date	Opponent	LSU Rank	Location (Arena)	Time (CT)	Results	On the Air
Sat, Apr 05	Spring Game	-	Baton Rouge, La. (Tiger Stadium)	5:00 p.m.	White, 38-10	100.7 FM
Sat, Aug 30	Appalachian St.	7	Baton Rouge, La. (Tiger Stadium)	4:00 p.m.		ESPN, 98.1 FM
Sat, Sep 06	Troy	-	Baton Rouge, La. (Tiger Stadium)	7:00 p.m.		98.1 FM
Sat, Sep 13	North Texas	-	Baton Rouge, La. (Tiger Stadium)	7:00 p.m.		98.1 FM
Sat, Sep 20	Auburn *	-	at Auburn, Ala. (Jordan-Hare Stadium)	TBA		98.1 FM
Sat, Sep 27	Mississippi St. (HC) *	-	Baton Rouge, La. (Tiger Stadium)	TBA		98.1 FM
Sat, Oct 11	Florida *	-	at Gainesville, Fla. (Ben Hill Griffin Stadium)	TBA		98.1 FM
Sat, Oct 18	South Carolina *	-	at Columbia, S.C. (Williams-Brice Stadium)	TBA		98.1 FM
Sat, Oct 25	Georgia *	-	Baton Rouge, La. (Tiger Stadium)	TBA		98.1 FM
Sat, Nov 01	Tulane	-	Baton Rouge, La. (Tiger Stadium)	7:00 p.m.		98.1 FM
Sat, Nov 08	Alabama *	-	Baton Rouge, La. (Tiger Stadium)	TBA		98.1 FM
Sat, Nov 22	Ole Miss *	-	Baton Rouge, La. (Tiger Stadium)	TBA		98.1 FM
Fri, Nov 28	Arkansas *	-	at Little Rock, Ark. (War Memorial Stadium)	1:30 p.m.		CBS, 98.1 FM

Mr Rolfe's (Daddy Rolfe/Pastor )

Tara, Rolfe’s secretary sent this to Dan so I stole it.

The way Rolfe is explaining the broken arm to the folks at the business report. thought y’all’d enjoy it:
Top 10 Explanations for the Broken Arm:

10. Chronic Blackberry overuse weakened the bones, and when the flight reached altitude of 35,000 feet it spontaneously fractured.

9. Snapped during a safari tour by a local Swazilander who kept hitting him in the arm in the exact same spot repeatedly and asking ‘Huh? Tigaz! Huh? Lions! Huh? Rhinocerous! Huh?’

8. Attacked by a crocodile after getting too close and taunting, “Tiger bait! Tiger bait!”

7. It was crushed when cargo shifted on the plane – apparently he stacked too many boxes of “Our Way” leaflets to distribute to villagers.

6. Tussled with local activists after suggesting he could do a better job running their believeInSwaziland.org web site.

5. Let’s just say the McCollister driving style is not as effective when weaving through hundreds of pedestrians and hippos.

4. Tried to take his signature ‘Moon Walk’ to another level by walking on his hands.

3. Broke it after he triggered a brawl when he offered local tribal chiefton an ill-advised food offering of his mom’s homemade “White Trash."

2. It’s not actually broken—it’s merely a so-called “Mule cast” to conceal contraband.

And the number 1 explanation:

Tara, astounded he somehow managed to get his Blackberry to work from the jungle, hired a Swazi warrior hit man to “please, for the love of all that is good, break his Blackberry hand.”

Pretty Boy

O.K. When I saw who was going on this trip I thought "oh great a bunch of teenagers that we are gonna have to watch this whole trip". Boy was I wrong about that. We had no problems at all with anybody.Think about this there were 30 people ages 15 to Rolf (LOL-Don't know how old Rolf is). And there were no fights, no getting on any buddies nerves. Now if that's not God I don't now what is.


This is Rolf..

All the teenagers were great for teenagers. they never complained about anything they were told to do. They loved on some baby's and were just great.

Now one of the teenage boy stood out to me more then the others and that was Paul (The pretty boy) Musso. He was on my team for the basketball camps.



First let me tell you why I gave him the nickname. It was the 2nd day of camps and we were going to have tea with the Principal and Teachers of the school. I was the last one to go up and some of the kids asked me to sign their wrist bands that we gave out. So as I was signing one girl looked at me and said "can you give this to Paul (handing me her wrist ban) and have him sign it for me?" so I took it and then she said "oh and have him kiss it". So like any grown 35 year old man would do I gave it back to her and said "I will go get him for you". Then I went inside and told everyone. Paul went out and the girls (by this time there were more of them) went CRAZY (like the old video of the Beatles) They chased him around screaming. Even the kids at the care points looked at him different. We also heard some of the girls at the school walking back to there class saying that Paul had shook there hands and they were not going to wash them.



Some of the kids from the school.



Paul in blue holding the basketball..



Paul in blue in the middle of the group.

He's not only pretty but he's a great kid. I'm glad he was on my team and I got to know him better.

Africa 2008

For now, go look at my pictures. I will write something later.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Deanaaronturner/Africa2008

Africa day 2

We are having so much fun here. We did our 2nd day of camps and had a great turn out. The kids just love us and had us sign there shirts and wristbands, then they signed our shirts.

Swaziland reminds me of Ohio, the landscape and the weather.

More Later.

Africa

O.K. We made it to Africa and had a very great day of b-ball with the kids. The only bad thing so far is I have not been able to talk to my lovely wife and kids yet. But that will come soon. I will post some pics later.Right now we are at the Children's Cup Office getting ready for church. will write more later.

Today is the Last day of Stink Fest!!

Straight from the Lil Stinky E blog, a sincere thank you to all of you who donated!!



I resume bathing at 7am tomorrow morning and I really don't want to because I don't like to bathe!!!!

Now I will not be Lil Stinky E anymore!!!!!!! WA!!!! The experience is good because you feel weird but good at the same time and it is good to know that you have friends that accept who you are and what you are!!! That it doesn't matter what people see or smell it is on the inside that counts!!!!!!!

Smell ya' later!! Lil Stinky E

Take a look back at all the Stink Fest Videos....



Thank you so much everyone for donating so I can go to Africa.

LSU Football - Lafell Blindside Hit

Is it time yet?!!!!

08' baseball season opening weekend pics

The fields..




Steele and Mr. Lamont..


Craig and Don...


Roger, me and Shaun Ray..



Eric being a Coca Cola Super model...


Hope looking like she wants to flip me off...


Wet Fields which caused rescheduled games...



The Godfather Kerry Wilkerson...


Mr. Lamont making the fields beautiful...


Evangeline ready to play...


Don doing what he does best.