I have been here almost a week now. It feels like it has been at least a month.
Saturday I got to sleep in until about 9 which was nice, but it’s really hard to sleep past 7 here, there is always so much going on. On Saturdays we normally make our own breakfast to give our cook a morning off, but she cooked for us this Sat. We walked down the road to a local market and bought some cokes. A half liter for fewer than 50 cents and it was cold! Later in the evening they threw a little birthday party for one of the boys Kawen. They don’t know his actually birth date so they just made one up. They blew up balloons and had cake and sang him some songs.
Saturday evening was definitely the hardest one to sleep through. Kendall wasn’t kidding about the dogs. There are around 20 puppies that I have counted and 20 plus adult dogs. There are two different packs and they fight ALL the time. Well all through the night. They sleep during the day and are absolutely annoying all night long. But also on Saturdays right down the hill there is a “club” and the music never stopped. I woke up at 430 in the morning and it was still going strong.
I would like to add that I really don’t think I have ever had so many mosquito bites in my entire life! I would love to take a bath in Benadryl, it hurts!
Sunday we have breakfast an hour later, at 8 AM and then Sunday school until 930ish and then church until noon. Then the rest of the day is free.
We have been hiking everyday around 4 and Sundays was the hardest yet! It is so beautiful though which helps with the pain :o).
Saturday I got to sleep in until about 9 which was nice, but it’s really hard to sleep past 7 here, there is always so much going on. On Saturdays we normally make our own breakfast to give our cook a morning off, but she cooked for us this Sat. We walked down the road to a local market and bought some cokes. A half liter for fewer than 50 cents and it was cold! Later in the evening they threw a little birthday party for one of the boys Kawen. They don’t know his actually birth date so they just made one up. They blew up balloons and had cake and sang him some songs.
Saturday evening was definitely the hardest one to sleep through. Kendall wasn’t kidding about the dogs. There are around 20 puppies that I have counted and 20 plus adult dogs. There are two different packs and they fight ALL the time. Well all through the night. They sleep during the day and are absolutely annoying all night long. But also on Saturdays right down the hill there is a “club” and the music never stopped. I woke up at 430 in the morning and it was still going strong.
I would like to add that I really don’t think I have ever had so many mosquito bites in my entire life! I would love to take a bath in Benadryl, it hurts!
Sunday we have breakfast an hour later, at 8 AM and then Sunday school until 930ish and then church until noon. Then the rest of the day is free.
We have been hiking everyday around 4 and Sundays was the hardest yet! It is so beautiful though which helps with the pain :o).
There has been talk of this little girl in town that is sick and today they brought her to the clinic. She is 3 months old and looks very malnourished. It looks as though she has a cleft foot. But the problem she came here for was that she has no anus. She pees and poops out of her vagina. And every time she poops she also vomits. One of the missionaries who is here for 2 months is getting all of the information and we have taken pictures to send to a doctor he knows back home. The mother is 21 and does not really have a home. She can barely feed herself which is greatly affecting the child who is breast feeding. Please pray for this little girl. We are trying to work out a way for her to get help in America to get her better. I don’t think it is too serious there are just no specialists around here that can help with this operation. I am fairly certain they can fix this problem, but it is only one amongst many that she will face in her lifetime. The mother is bringing her back on Thursday and hopefully by then we will have some answers.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. ~Sydney Smith
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