My so-called geography project has two goals: One, to help me (and via this blog, all you wonderful readers) learn, month by month and country by country, about the many peoples of this world. Two, as I learn of a country and its peoples, it will become no longer just a word on a map, a geographic stranger, but rather, a friend.
So when I read this blip about an Illinois pastor swimming the English Channel on behalf of a school in Angola, it meant a little something to me, because Angola means a little something to me,now.
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September 20, 2009
Illinois Pastor Swims English Channel for Charity
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:28 p.m. ET
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) -- Twenty-one miles and nearly 14 hours later, a northern Illinois pastor has fulfilled his goal of swimming the English Channel to raise money for a school in Africa.
It took the Rev. Mike Solberg 13 hours and 31 minutes to swim from Samphire Hoe, England, to Wissant, France, on Saturday.
Solberg is senior pastor of Second Congregational Church in Rockford.
His goal is to raise $50,000 to build a school in Waku Kungo, Angola. So far, he's raised more than $30,000.
Solberg wrote on his blog after his swim that the first five hours were good, followed by four hours that were not.
Overall, he says, ''it was a great experience.''
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On the Net:
www.swimmikeswim.com
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Information from: Rockford Register Star, http://www.rrstar.com
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Swimming for the children of Angola
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