Week 4!!!
Week 4 already and a month has passed since I left the UK! As each day passes I am feeling more and more confident to do more things and getting familiar with my surroundings. Here are some pictures of our street and neighbours.
This week I travelled on my own into town on a tricycle to collect my passport. Doesn't sound like much but for me it was a big thing; being able to do something completely on my own and successfully! I was even confident when the tricycle driver I asked to bring me home wanted more than double the fair! I just told him I would find someone else to take me! And I did!
Week 4 has been mixed. Start of the week went really well the children are making progress in so many ways. I was planning to do so much with them, the first thing being to make some playdough! But by Tuesday evening things did not all seem to be well...and by Wednesday morning it was obvious that I was not myself!!! So enforced rest has been upon me - but I am making the most of it. Enjoying reading my bible lots and watching DVD's and sleeping until I feel better. Oh and drinking lots and lots and lots of water!!! Today (Thursday) I still feel a little weak but I think the worst is over! So hopefully I will make the playdough at the weekend and we will be back to normal next week.
I am praying for wisdom at the moment that I will know when to do the right thing. When you are living side by side with people who are experiencing injustice, poverty, corruption its impossible for your heart to not want to help. Especially when you consider that a days wages over here is a little over £3 and that would have been a very hard day for most people. Being part of The Ruel Foundation has really opened my eyes to so many things and I am learning all the time. They face hard decisions daily and there is always a need somewhere within the small area in which we live never mind the wider community.
Well...no plans as yet for weekend but I am sure it will be busy there is always something happening or somewhere to go, people to meet!!!
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