Singing Sunday

Day 20

Today was another day to relax and enjoy being here in Africa. Church service was good today as well. During the middle though when all the children get up for Sunday school, all my class mates left to go teach so I say by myself, but it wasn’t so bad. Today we had left overs for our meals. During the afternoon a small group went to the Havens to work on capstone projects. I went along to help. It was nice to just hang with the children and not worry about doing therapy. I hope I get more opportunities to interact with the babies in a non therapy setting.

After we finished working at the Havens we were all very tired. I cleaned my room this afternoon, it really needed some work. The guys a few doors down from my room got attacked by ants. Literally thousands of ants were everywhere, not all in their room, but right outside the room. I guess they had some food trash or something, or maybe their room was in the way for where the ants wanted to go. They sprayed and then ants eventually retreated back to the back yard. I had never seen so many ants. I had never been bitten by ants until today as well. They were tricky. They would get on you so quickly and easily and then dig their pinchers into your leg. They were very annoying.

Once the ants were fought off we had dinner and then we waited around for evening church to start. Church was long tonight for a Sunday night service. They had singing, and a long lesson, and then more singing, and then they had some groups of students coming up to sing. It was close to a two hour event.

Once church was finished we headed back to the house and hung out, filling out therapy hours, playing cards, and enjoying each other’s company. Looking forward to a good night rest before we start a new week working with the babies.

Most of the group that was feeling ill is starting to feel better. Thank you for all your prayers, I hope that the spell of nausea will be done. I’m told though everyone gets a turn…I don’t want a turn.

Ben