This past week has been really hard. I was sick last Saturday and Sunday and when I’m sick, I just want my own bed and my own bathroom so that I can sleep on my own floor so that I don’t have to worry if there is a ten inch centipede crawling on me (That didn’t happen, but it could’ve). I just wanted my mom to come and rub my back while I slept in my own bed.
Instead I have wonderful teammates that took such good care of me. I had gotten up at about 2:30am and was not feeling it, so I went downstairs and tried to calm down, but I couldn’t feel better so I went and god Kelsey’s oils so I used some to try to calm down my stomach, and after I thought it didn’t help and I thought I was going to throw up, I had a slight panic attack (if you know me, I have a fear of throwing up). So I went and woke up Kelsey and she brought me medicine and we went downstairs and she prayed for me and made me eat things and helped me calm down. And then my nausea went away and I was able to go lay down for about two hours, but I didn’t fall asleep, and I had to get up and go back down stairs because my nausea built up again, and when I went into the bathroom it was dark, and I think I fell asleep sitting up for a while because by the time I left the bathroom it was light out and I was able to sleep for a few hours. And then I got right back up and did the same routine, except now Cat was awake and she walked over to the store for me and got me a sprite. It helped so much. I am so thankful for the wonderful women on my team.
I was out again on Sunday, my body just felt so weak, I was so sore and I couldn’t figure out why. And then I watched too many movies and got a migraine and went to bed at 5:30pm for the night. I felt a lot better the next morning when I woke up at 7am. I was thankful that I felt better because I got to teach!
On Tuesday Pastor Calvary took us shopping downtown Accra. We also got to see where the president was buried, and a few landmarks of Ghana. It was a lot of fun to see monuments and he told us all about them, we also got to see the ocean! He took us to a couple markets where we could buy things. We also had KFC for lunch, which was such a treat!
Wednesday was a national holiday, Founders Day, so we didn’t have school. We had breakfast with our host family, they taught us how to make omelets like they do, and they are phenomenal I can’t wait to eat them when I get home. We just had a relaxing day.
Thursday we went to school, went home and then went to dinner, and it was one of my favorite dinners so far! We had rice, yams, avocado and pineapple. It was amazing! I couldn’t get enough.
On Friday we went to Sports day and then freshened up and went to breakfast at Pastor’s house. We were going to go to Tema today to see the ship Logos Hope at the Tema Port. We convinced Pastor to bring his eldest daughter Annie, so she got to come with us! We stopped and saw the ocean; we climbed around on some rocks and felt the ocean on our feet! We then went on the ship Logos Hope, it’s awesome, it’s a missionary ship with a massive book store on it, and it’s crewed by Christians by over 60 different countries around the world! I met one of the crewmembers and you’ll never guess where she is from; Wisconsin! She is from Wasau and has been on the ship for almost four years total! They dock in port cities and do mission work ashore and open their bookstore to them. It was very interesting to hear all the places she has been and what her favorites were. We also ate lunch at the international café! We had a croissant, turkey and cheese sandwich and a chocolate and vanilla swirled cone, it was heavenly.
This week although hard, has felt very normal. Living life day to day enjoying every minute, finding joy in the little things, like how sweet and generous our host family is. It’s been a good week overall, I can’t believe that we only have one more before we head off to our next country.
I have been having dreams of home, I dreamed of being in the high school auditorium watching a choir concert, I dreamed of being at TEC and asking Jo if I could work the next TEC weekend, I dreamed of being with my friends at my house and hanging out. It’s been hard to figure out where I am when I wake up in the morning. But it’s getting better, it’s getting harder, but better. God is guiding me where I didn’t know He wanted to take me. He surprises me so often I sometimes don’t know what to do with myself.
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Talk to you next week,
Kelsey
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