Living Life

When we first got here, I kind of assumed that the, “What have you been doing?” question would be easier to answer once we got to this point in the internship. There was a fuzzy sort of idea in my head that, by now, I would have regular ministry and a schedule-ish sort of something to my week.

Ha.

Let’s see. Today I woke up early enough that it was still cool out – which doesn’t last long on days that hit 113 Fahrenheit – and typed up a baby class curriculum for a local school for about an hour, until I decided that, since the power was out, it would be smart to save my battery for other things (like writing blog entries). So, I moved on to formatting the English rough draft of a kid’s storybook that covers Genesis 1:1-2:7, so that I will be closer to ready for really formatting the book on the computer, once I get the Swahili version proof read.

After I got myself stuck trying to decided how to portray God – with my less than stellar art skills, no less – I finished the rest of the pages, and moved on to my, still-in-the-process, attempt at turning a skirt into a sleeveless officer’s jacket, that I will need for a murder mystery party my team is doing next week with a few friends.

(The skirt has already been butchered once in order to be used as an elvish cloak during my birthday party this spring.)

Somewhere in there, I ate two meals, got drafted in as the stamp person for Bible club next term, hung out with my team, listened to Dave Dawson preach a sermon on hospitality, worked on NaNoWriMo, and cleaned up a little around the house.

On Monday, I went to town on an unsuccessful errand run, had Philippians class, went to a prayer meeting, and went back to town – with a little more success.

Tomorrow we have class with some people who are visiting from America, and then they want to take us out to dinner, and, Friday, I plan to be out at the school in the village to work on curriculum. But, nothing is certain until it is history, so, we’ll see.

If I’m ever vague on the details of daily life, it is because we tend to be doing a little bit of everything...