Wow, life in Africa...where do I start? Lets just say it is very different from anything I've ever experienced. The Lord is taking such wonderful care of me here. He has blessed me with good health, and continued strength and courage to get through this new way of life. It just recently hit me that a am not just vacationing here, but living here. I see it all, do it all. Adapting to it all will surely take some time.
In adapting to the way of life here, I am learning many things. I am currently learning the local language (Twi) that is spoken in the remote village of Akwakwaa where my health clinic is located. This will hopefully help with communicating to the patients who come in, as well as all the people who work at the clinic with me (for their english has such an accent that we hardly understand eachother). I am also learning medical procedures. This morning I helped a poor 8 year old boy get curcumcised. :( What an experience! I am also learning to eat a completly different type of food, and learning new bathing practices... also quite a struggle. Again, Christ is providing all, and I know these things will soon become natural for me.
Time in the village is also spent sitting under the front tree while I teach the 3 students and 3 staff about the human body. None of them have had full training, and I am hoping that my pre-nursing school knowledge will do atleast a little good here. It is difficult to teach names of the inner organs, for Twi only has names for body parts you can see from the outside. I end up drawing a lot of pictures. :)
Sometimes I go next door to play soccer (futball) with the primary school children. And on sundays I like to go to the orphanage down the road and play with the 60 kids and check on their continued health. I have taken lots of pictures, but have yet to figure out how to put them on the computer here. I will be working on it so soon I will have some pictures to show.
This weekend, I am taking time off to go with another american girl (Or 'Obruni'- what they call us rare white people) to the Volta region. We will be visiting a monkey santuary as well as hiking to some waterfalls! I am very excited! Life at the clinic is pretty slow sometimes, and when I spend so much time sitting and reading/writting, the opportunity to come here to Accra sounded refreshing. It was only today that I found out I would be traveling with Kristina tomorrow. What a wonderful surprise!
As of today, she is taking me around town to do some errands. We exchanged money, are doing internet, and then we will go to the post office so I can send a letter to Amy. We might also go to a 'westernish' part of the city where we can drink COFFEE! Yay!
Well, I can't put into writting the wonderful things I am experiencing here in Ghana, but it is obvious that the Lord has blessed me greatly with this life changing experience filled with lots and lots of growth! Praise the Lord for taking such good care of me on this mission He has planned.
I miss home, my family and my friends, and hope everything is going well for all of you whom I love so dearly.
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