Hey all!
Yesterday morning we visited an internet cafe that is a project of these guys here...the main purpose of it is that it is an intensive computer course, for 5 weeks, to equip people who want to have computer skills, and it is a registered course, so they have a qualification for when they apply for jobs etc. At the same time they teach them English and have christian teaching as well. There are 6 people in the class, a very wide range of ages and backgrounds. We had a GREA time talking to them, and Liz got put on the spot to share something and did a FANTASTIC job and had everybody in tears lol. Wanted to put about three exclamation marks after that sentence but it is not working on this computer....argh this is going to be hard for me exclamation mark x6.
After that we went to a covered basketball court where we did a "medical mission", paid for by our church. Ok all the numbers buttons and punctuation marks are not working so I can't even do smiley faces argh. Oh maybe like this... :D yup, yay :D
The medical mission was fantastic. We had 4 doctors and an optometrist there, doing checkups for families in the sponsorship programme, and then a "pharmacy" so they could pick up their drugs for free as well. Sooo fantastic to be part of :D We weighed people, gave out drugs, talked to mums, and entertained kids. One of the things we did with the kids was gave them coloured pencils and paper to draw pictures on, and they were all showing us their pictures, and they had all written their names on the top, and I glanced over at one wee girl and recognised the name on her picture - lo and behold it was Bena's sponsor child. You have no idea how frustrating it is for me to not be able to do exclamation marks. Right here there would normally be about ten. It was seriously the highlight of my day, to just come across her like that...soooooo cool :D
So we had a really great time all round :D
We spent the afternoon shopping a wee bit and relaxing a big bit...it was a pretty nice afternoon which was good cos it had been a pretty hectic morning.
That's pretty much Friday covered :D
Might have to change computers to write about the next day cos I can't handle not being able to express my enthusiasm with punctuation.
Over and out,
Kirsten x
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just for you Kiks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo good chatting the other day, your commander in chief sounds like a jesus machine! Go you Liz. i love being able to read your blog and know exactly what the places look like and where you go, i wonder if that computer centre is the one that Delta company opened & did the dental mission downstairs. Mad love to all the ladies you are all prayed for and missed much. and to ps. nestor & beth HELLOOOOOOOOOO, can't wait to be able to see them all again!!!!