Hello... So the Journey has begun. The flights from Nashville to Chicago, to Brussels, to Dakar, to Sierra Leone was...long. very long. took a while to go to sleep last night. still on USA time. hopefully that will go by fast. although its 11:15 pm here now and im still wide awake even after waking up at 6 this morning. i had a hard night last night. i was really homesick. missing friends and family. even missing the smell of good ol America. woke up this mornin and me and my roommate Christine and this girl that lives here with her husband went to town and she showed me and Christine places to shop for groceries. we ate at this nice place which had air conditioning. yeah we have no air conditioning. we have electricity from 7pm to 7am. so we do have a fan at night which is good cuz it is soooo hot here. today was ridiculously hot. so humid. i haven't stopped sweating all day. dont' remember it being this hot. but guess thats AFRICA! funny thing about our toilet: we just got running water so we have to be conservitive and we can't flush our toilet paper. so where does it go? the trash can beside the toilet. yeah our bathroom smells just swell. haha. gross! um, we have internet but it is very slow. only at night as well. my room is very bare. i have to sleep under a mosquito net which for those of you who dont' know what those are its a big net hanging over my bed that i put over my whole bed while i sleep so mosquitoes wont eat me alive. it also does a swell job of keeping out wanted air! i sweated all night last night. it was so hot. still is as a matter of fact. yeah not sure if it will ever cool down. i know this will be the longest summer and hardest summer of my life. please pray that the Lord would give me strength and courage. sada and gabe (the couple that lives here and pretty much is my help) are leaving at the end of june and i don't know what i will do without them. they help me so much. after sada leaves my job will really begin and im a little freaked out. even though its like a month away. yikes. so pray that i will be able to do the job and that the Lord woudl be my strength. im missing my friends a lot at the moment and wishing i was back home hanging in the sun with them. but i know God has something for me here. hope to blog some more soon. keep up the prayers! thanks!
p.s. dangerously surrendered. have you?
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