I hope all is well back in Texas or wherever you happen to be in the
world. Things here are well...hot! For being rainy season, it has only
been raining a little in the morning and sometimes during the night.
Today it felt especially hot and there is really no where that is cool
enough to cool down, so I just try to drink a lot of cold water and
look forward to the ice cold bucket bath at the end of the day. It's
been a odd few days...we have kind of been in a waiting limbo for
multiple things. The rest of our furniture is somewhere on its way,
school still doesn't have an official start date, and a journalist
that was supposed to interview us for the global post still has not
showed up. School has not started because children are not coming up
with the 24 dollars needed to pay their school fees for the year.
Times are hard and it is really hitting home where and I why I am
here. I think I am having a rough day or I am exhausted, but then I
look around me and remember that I have a really tough job ahead of
me. Of course I am always welcome to ideas or suggestions for projects
or ways I can make the best of my service here, so keep the replies
coming.
There is another stark reality here and that is the situation of
healthcare. Death is not uncommon and there are almost daily funeral
processions from what probably could have been very preventable
viruses or infection. A young girl from my school who used to come by
our house to help us out lost her mother the other day due to an
infection in her foot. This was very hard to take in, but at the same
time know it is something I must learn to face and cope with in the
next few years because I know it will not be the first or last time
for this experience. I am going to try my hardest in my field of
education, but I also hope that I can help empower locals to teach
about simple healthcare steps that could prevent things like this from
happening. Then again it is all dependent on prayer and support from
this and the international community.
On a more positive note, our house is finally coming together and
Ginobili is growing up a little every day. He eats bowl after bowl of
food and gets into everything. This morning, I saw the biggest spider
yet, about 5 inches in diameter with big black googley eyes! When I
can, I will post pictures of our (now dead) friend. Other than that,
we are trying to rest a bit before school starts because that is when
it will be very busy. I am still waiting on the science syllabus and
then I can start making all my lesson plans. Again, I appreciate all
the emails that everyone is sending back to me! I hope to hear from
you all again very soon!
world. Things here are well...hot! For being rainy season, it has only
been raining a little in the morning and sometimes during the night.
Today it felt especially hot and there is really no where that is cool
enough to cool down, so I just try to drink a lot of cold water and
look forward to the ice cold bucket bath at the end of the day. It's
been a odd few days...we have kind of been in a waiting limbo for
multiple things. The rest of our furniture is somewhere on its way,
school still doesn't have an official start date, and a journalist
that was supposed to interview us for the global post still has not
showed up. School has not started because children are not coming up
with the 24 dollars needed to pay their school fees for the year.
Times are hard and it is really hitting home where and I why I am
here. I think I am having a rough day or I am exhausted, but then I
look around me and remember that I have a really tough job ahead of
me. Of course I am always welcome to ideas or suggestions for projects
or ways I can make the best of my service here, so keep the replies
coming.
There is another stark reality here and that is the situation of
healthcare. Death is not uncommon and there are almost daily funeral
processions from what probably could have been very preventable
viruses or infection. A young girl from my school who used to come by
our house to help us out lost her mother the other day due to an
infection in her foot. This was very hard to take in, but at the same
time know it is something I must learn to face and cope with in the
next few years because I know it will not be the first or last time
for this experience. I am going to try my hardest in my field of
education, but I also hope that I can help empower locals to teach
about simple healthcare steps that could prevent things like this from
happening. Then again it is all dependent on prayer and support from
this and the international community.
On a more positive note, our house is finally coming together and
Ginobili is growing up a little every day. He eats bowl after bowl of
food and gets into everything. This morning, I saw the biggest spider
yet, about 5 inches in diameter with big black googley eyes! When I
can, I will post pictures of our (now dead) friend. Other than that,
we are trying to rest a bit before school starts because that is when
it will be very busy. I am still waiting on the science syllabus and
then I can start making all my lesson plans. Again, I appreciate all
the emails that everyone is sending back to me! I hope to hear from
you all again very soon!
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