The Wish List

This morning I started the day with devotions and doing laundry.  Caroline left today (along with the Maryland team), so I said a quick "goodbye" as I ran out to the clinic.  Joche will be in the clinic all week.  There's something going on with his eye, although I didn't understand what exactly.  Our job is just to make sure he's not touching his eye until his stitches come out later on in the week.  When I got to the clinic, the night lady had already made sure he got a shower and his eye patch was changed, so I quickly got to work with changing the bedding and washing it, and sweeping & mopping the clinic floor.  With just one child in the clinic, the duty seems to be much more manageable than in years past when there were many more children in with me there.

At 7:30, Emilie came to relieve me at the clinic, so I headed to the little girls house to help with dishes again.  I saw Kimberly holding little Elena (Doris' sister) who had a 102-degree temp.  She didn't look like her normal self, so I didn't even need to see the temp to see that she was sick.  Elena generally gives this cute, sweet little smile to me every time I see her, and she definitely didn't do that this morning as she lay pretty limp in Kimberly's lap.  I got to dishes, Maria helped me so I could walk the girls to school.

Back at the house, I wrote up my blog, swept, did dishes and then read for a bit.  I was tired, but didn't want to nap because when I do, I find that I can't go to sleep as early in the evenings.  I headed to the school to ask Robert if he had a list prepared for Bob of technological items he was hoping for, whether tangible items or needs that Bob could repair, update, etc when down here.  Robert wrote everything down for me, including a "special wish item" and I took it back to the volunteer house to immediately email to Bob.  I got a fairly quick response that most everything would be coming down with Bob on Friday.

By that time it was lunch, so back to the little girls house to help with lunch & dishes.  When I got back to the volunteer house, I decided I really needed to rest.  Must have been the little sleep I had gotten the day  before or the hot sun, or a combination of the two.  I made it back to the little girls house for ensenanza (Bible study), and I had been asked to translate for Jodi who is part of the remaining team.  She wanted to help the girls make some prayer books.  All-in-all it turned out pretty good (you have to imagine almost 70 girls asking for help at the same time).  We got them fed, showered, combed for lice and taken care of after that before they headed for bed.

The evening ended back at the volunteer house with a really good chat with Emilie!