Wednesday, August 17, 2011

August 16th, 2011 - The Computer Works Again?

Kari came to the clinic at 6:30am to relieve me from having spent the night, so I headed back to the volunteer house for a bit to eat before going to wash dishes.  Dishes tend to go a LOT slower when you don’t have that 2nd person there to help.  After washing them, I headed back to the volunteer  house for lice treatment #2 and to paint.  I lost track of time and before I knew it, it was just about lunch time.  Bedroom #4 is just about done with only one wall to go!   It got painted that elephant gray color, which is really making the room look dark, especially since there’s only one window.
 
After a week of my computer not working with the internet, it finally worked yesterday!  With everything that’s been happening to me down here, Daysha & I think that perhaps it was not meant to work on my computer for this past week and today was just the day that it was supposed to be up & running.  I can’t really explain here why we felt that way – just a lot of “God signs” going on down here.  I am so glad for the opportunity to come down here each year, I feel so close to Him and many times can hear Him whisper to me his wishes and plans for me as I listen to the daily devotions the kids participate in each morning and afternoon, or the ones that I go through on my own.

 
I stopped by the clinic to check on Kari to give her the option of staying in the clinic over lunch or going and taking her turn in the dining hall & washing dishes.  She said although she didn’t really mind, it seemed that she’d rather stay in the clinic, so I headed to do dishes.  After dishes I headed back to the house and cleaned a little bit.
 
I relieved Kari from the clinic around 2pm so that she could go and get a bite to eat (they do send an extra plate to the clinic during meal times for the volunteers in the clinic) and just take a break.  I let her know that she could tackle supper time (serving food only) and then bath time, and when she was finished if she’d come back for about 20 minutes, I’d head to the house to pack to spend the night.
I began reading a 350-page book at 2pm and it was so good that I had to finish it (which means I didn’t get to bed until about 11:30pm).  I had to get up every 3 hours for this little boy to get his medicine, so I’m thinking that I may be tired tomorrow – but I’m sure that God will get me through!  The highlight of my night was probably while I was sitting in the front part of the clinic (since I needed light to read) and getting to watch the big bugs come out to play.  The ants here are larger than normal, but this huge black cricket (probably 3-4 times the size of the ones we have) crawled across the floor and wasn’t about 5 feet in front of me when out of nowhere a little lizard ran down the wall and over to him and whisked him away!  I heard the crunch when it caught the cricket in it’s mouth and I think the lizard would’ve started eating him right there, but I didn’t really want to see it, so I stomped my foot and it ran under a door into another room. Later, as I was reading the last 10 pages of my book, I saw a cockroach come out from under a cupboard whose size had been foreign to me since I had lived it Mexico.  I wanted it to stay under the cupboard until I finished the book and retreated to the back room to sleep, so once again I stomped my foot and it went running. When I spend the night in the clinic, I take the top bunk of one of the beds in there.  I figure that if any bugs are going to climb a bed, they’d rather go for one that’s not so high, hahaha. 
 
Goodnight!