Here we are… in Albania… living on a pig farm. And all I can say is wow. I am becoming a farmer (just kidding haha).
This is what our day to day looks like:
- Wake up and have breakfast at 7 am (made by the wonderful Nana Dusha)
- Feed the goats, sheep, chickens, and dogs
- Clean up the pig pens (shoveling lbs of pig poop into wheelbarrows and dumping them in the pile and refilling them)
- Milk the goats
- Use the goat milk to feed the piglets and make “porridge” as our Albanian farm hand Frrok calls it (mainly because that is one of the only words he knows in English)
- Feed the adult pigs with corn meal
- Do miscellaneous jobs until 1pm which include:
- Chopping down a dead palm tree with two of your friends with an ax
- Tilling the soil in the garden
- Clearing a fence from a rose push full of thorns (I have the scars to prove it)
- Cleaning out the goat pens from LAYERS upon LAYERS of straw/dirt/poop/ and food until we reach the concrete floor
- Eat lunch at 1pm, she treats us with a cake dessert every lunch :)) (again made by the wonderful Nana Dusha)
- Have free time the rest of the day which usually includes:
- Taking a 45 min walk into town to go to a coffee shop, explore, or get internet
- Do the designated team time that day (worship, feedback, blogging, or bible study)
- Watching a movie with the team
- Going for a run
- Playing games
10. Eat dinner at 6pm (made by… you guessed it the wonderful NANA DUSHA)
11. Lastly, we are all grandmas here so we usually go to bed by 8!!!
That is our day! My team is here for one month doing ministry. Then we leave on April 5th to go to a different town in Albania for our LAST MINISTRY ASSIGNMENT for the race. Wish us luck conquering the world one filled wheelbarrow at a time;)
