Hello everyone…this is old news from last week…the internet crashed for a week or so, but now we are back and running again! The computer is not good at all, it just decides when it isn’t going to work, we’ve been trying to get our professors computer hooked up to no avail. Oh well. This one is working at the moment!

So here’s the post from last week that I never actually got to put up…

I am starting to feel quite at home here now. We have met so many amazing people and they are always dropping by for tea or a meal. I think we are all feeling like we belong a bit. It’s good to finally be able to walk around a see people you know and who’s names you can remember!

I’ve started teaching at the secondary school and the basic school. I was pretty nervous Monday morning for my first class but it went well! It was a little intimidating walking into a classroom with that many students for the first time but once I got going and remembered to talk slowly and annunciate clearly it was good. I was pretty proud of myself, especially because getting up and talking in front of people is definitely not my favorite thing to do. Sometimes it’s good to jump out of your box once in a while. Once I got into it, it was fine. The students are really good and I enjoy talking to them after class and getting to know them. We are both learning. I really enjoy it…much much more than I ever thought I would!

We are starting to get in at the clinic also, although the strike is not yet over. The clinical officer, the equivalent of a Physicians Assistant, let us come in and observe all of the patients and the interactions yesterday which was great. We are hoping to be able to go out with some of the nurses to the villages sometimes too. Each week they go out to very remote villages and do vaccinations, bring medicines, transport anyone who needs it and anything else like that. It would be really neat to get in with that. We are going to meet a traditional healer next week which will be interesting as well.

The last few nights the stars have been out in full force. I don’t know how the stars are where you live but I guarantee no matter how amazing they are you haven’t seen anything like the stars here. They are absolutely incredible. Not only are they a completely different set of stars from in the Northern Hemisphere but you can literally see the milky way galaxy almost every night…it’s that clear. Looking up at them makes you feel so small, in a good way though. Like there has to be some order and someone in charge of the world to make something as magnificent as the night sky here. It’s a good reminder of who we are and who God is. I never get tired of looking at them. Sometimes it’s good to slow the heck down and stop and smell the roses. I think maybe God can only be where we perceive him to be.

That’s enough deep thinking for now…