Well, for all who know I am NOT a morning person, I start my day at 5:30 a.m and get my 5 kids up and ready for school. About a week ago, we got back 3 kids that had been gone for a while and they needed a caretaker until a permanent one can be found, so I am "Auntie Dianne" which I love. They range in age from 4 - 10 and they are a handful. Will attach pics so you can see. I have 4 girls and 1 boy; the boy Kule, is HIV + and on ARV drugs which we do 2x a day. We have 3 HIV+ kids and 1 adult here right now.
I walk to school with them in the morning and I'm teaching English to Grades 6 & 7. Grade 6 has 180 kids and grade 7 has 120. I alternate the days that I teach each class...I didn't realize how much I missed kids until the first day of teaching and saw all of their beautiful faces.
In the afternoons I am playing nurse. We have our share of colds, which I'm just getting over. I've done home visits to sick people in the community, sat with one pregnant gal at the clinic to make sure her baby was okay. She's 6 months pregnant and came to me because she hadn't felt the baby move in 2 days. I told her that I hadn't had this quarter of nursing yet, and she laughed. We sat at the clinic just around the corner for 3 hours before we were called to go in. Have made friends with the administrator and will be doing home health visits with her in the next few weeks.
Had a team of 6 people here from South Florida for 2 weeks and that was a blessing. They were able to entertain the kids and give the rest of us a break. My team from Mars Hill comes in just a few days and then I am going to have to get ready to come back to the US.
Not sure how I feel about that yet, have found a place here with these kids that is precious and wonderful and I can't imagine leaving them.
My day finally wraps up when I've got the kids in bed, asleep (blessedly) (and my heart felt appreciation to mom's everywhere who do this every day!)
Much love to all of you. Was homesick yesterday, but reading email was therapeutic. Bye for now. Enjoy the pics.
I walk to school with them in the morning and I'm teaching English to Grades 6 & 7. Grade 6 has 180 kids and grade 7 has 120. I alternate the days that I teach each class...I didn't realize how much I missed kids until the first day of teaching and saw all of their beautiful faces.
In the afternoons I am playing nurse. We have our share of colds, which I'm just getting over. I've done home visits to sick people in the community, sat with one pregnant gal at the clinic to make sure her baby was okay. She's 6 months pregnant and came to me because she hadn't felt the baby move in 2 days. I told her that I hadn't had this quarter of nursing yet, and she laughed. We sat at the clinic just around the corner for 3 hours before we were called to go in. Have made friends with the administrator and will be doing home health visits with her in the next few weeks.
Had a team of 6 people here from South Florida for 2 weeks and that was a blessing. They were able to entertain the kids and give the rest of us a break. My team from Mars Hill comes in just a few days and then I am going to have to get ready to come back to the US.
Not sure how I feel about that yet, have found a place here with these kids that is precious and wonderful and I can't imagine leaving them.
My day finally wraps up when I've got the kids in bed, asleep (blessedly) (and my heart felt appreciation to mom's everywhere who do this every day!)
Much love to all of you. Was homesick yesterday, but reading email was therapeutic. Bye for now. Enjoy the pics.
1 comment:
I love the blog - thanks for doing this for us! We love seeing you and being able to pray for you specifically. We love you Di and are so excited to hear of your adventures. Hang in there! Lor
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