i am still here

sorry to have been out for so long. i thought my computer would have been coming sooner and so i waited...and i think it was also just an excuse. so i'll try to catch you up and continue on from here.

my job with the youth department doesn't seem to be happening...of course the week i finally admit that to myself i get a phone call from one of the staff with 3 different events going on around nkhoma so i agree to do that but i (and he) also knew that as of september 1 he would not be working for the youth dept either. but i went to a kids day and did a lot of dancing with the kids...then a sports day which was just utter chaos and too hot and i went home early with a massive headache. and then the next day was an overnight to see a world vision (ngo) work site where they had been operating for 15 years as world vision has set up in nkhoma only a year ago. so we took about 40 people--youth and adults to see it and ask questions and see what is hopedd to be accomplished in community development here. of course it was all in chichewa so i didn't get too much of it until about halfway through someone started translating for me--but not in a discreet quiet manner, he was loud and stopped everything else to make sure i was following. i still think i need a little more background info on world vision in general before i really get what they are doing but everyone else seemed to know more and get a good days talk out of it. the excitement of the trip happened the night before all the talks as our coordinator walked through the glass window at the restaurant we were using for dinner...it shattered and cut his face and hands and then we had to drive to find the hospital and then the doctor and take them back to the hospital as it was really just a clinic and not usually staffed at night. but he is fine now though unemployed and waiting for God to lead his way.

so as that is most of the youth work i'd done in quite a while and so the plan now is to work part time at Ebenezer school again--helping the new second grade teacher Magrate get used to the ciriculum. and part time at the hospital doing whatever is going on...folders, computer work, baby feeding. it is going well and i am keeping very busy.

when i get introduced to new people now i still don't really know how to answer the question what do i do here because it really is a little bit of everything. someone once called me a chameleon and after getting to know me Colleen, who is acting principal-headmistress at ebenezer says that is very fitting. the other question to answer is how long i've been here...a year and a half but not consecutively as i was home for 2.5 months in between. but it is going well. and i hope to write more and do a much better job at keeping up. thanks for all the love and support!