This year is certainly a change from my regular life.
–relying on others for finances
–moving month after month
-sharing a room with 5 others
–reading my Bible regularly (note: I’m enjoying it!)
-smiling ignorantly at people as they speak in a foreign language
-pouring concrete and learning construction
-taking pills to prevent malaria
-having discussions about scripture
-showering only twice a week
-sleeping in a tent on a beach
-shoveling piles of rock and sand day after day, taking breaks to only to wheelbarrel
-organizing and processing 46 people through three international airports in 24 hours
-staying in a hostel
-standing in pitch black darkness on a train platform in the middle of who-knows-where, waiting to meet a stranger
-eating cheese the same day the milk was taken from the cow
-making and enjoying hot tea! yay for European Red Passion Tea with lemon 🙂
-totally relying on God to provide resources
-cooking meals, washing dishes and laundering clothes all in the same rubber tub (and not caring that my spaghetti is in the clorox tub for dishes)
-might as well claim cooking as well 😉
-teaching English 3 times a week
-hand washing my laundry
-hanging clothes out to dry on a line
-seeing smoke and shrugging shoulders with calm understanding that,
“its just the trash burning”
-learning that not every adult knows how to make a pot of coffee
-dropping by unannounced is a common practice in Many countries
(and its not considered rude or inconsiderate)
-living without TV is normal and can be more fun!
-driving through the mountains on famous switch back roads, passing on turns,
picking up hitchhikers, seeing dracula’s castle and
loving the beautiful and bright iron gates marking each new property along the way
