So much to say! So little time!
Saturdays...
Since CHM now is partnering with local schools, my kids from last year only come on Saturdays. So while I'm enjoying getting to know all of the new kids in the school program, Saturday was, hands down, my favorite day! It was the best homecoming! So many hugs! It was so great to have those kids back in my arms.
I am working with Uncle Elijah and Uncle Kin To in art and loving it! Elijah is working with me during the week in the evenings on my drawing. He says there is something special in my hands, but I wouldn't go that far. I'm having fun though! I'm not good at clay sculpting...no good! But the kids liked watching me try (and in the process I end up wearing most of the clay)! I'm also working with the kids in drama. We had a blast yesterday. I learned a game called "Big Booty!" I think that's one I'll bring back to the states with me. It's funny! The kids are really starting to get into acting. It's really neat to watch them open up! I'll start this Saturday with my first aid class! I have 19 girls signed up!! I'm excited (a little nervous) but excited! I think we're going to have a blast! We're even going to work in a little drama at the end of the course too! It should be great!
I am working with Uncle Elijah and Uncle Kin To in art and loving it! Elijah is working with me during the week in the evenings on my drawing. He says there is something special in my hands, but I wouldn't go that far. I'm having fun though! I'm not good at clay sculpting...no good! But the kids liked watching me try (and in the process I end up wearing most of the clay)! I'm also working with the kids in drama. We had a blast yesterday. I learned a game called "Big Booty!" I think that's one I'll bring back to the states with me. It's funny! The kids are really starting to get into acting. It's really neat to watch them open up! I'll start this Saturday with my first aid class! I have 19 girls signed up!! I'm excited (a little nervous) but excited! I think we're going to have a blast! We're even going to work in a little drama at the end of the course too! It should be great!Now, Baby Moses (or as I like to call him, "Little Man"). The Old Testament one came in a basket down the river. Ours, came butt-naked from a bathing basin with pneumonia! Shelly started working with a few families in Lukwange around Shiloh a few months ago who had malnourished chidlren, giving them porridge and trying to get them healthy. 
Baby Moses was living with his Jaja (grandmother) at the time. His mother died when he was one month old, and his father passed when he was 7 months old. Then, right after Shelly started working with the Jaja, she too, passed. So Baby Moses ended up in Bulenga, a good distance from Lukwange, under the care of the Jaja's daughters. Aisha, who live in Lukwange, knew where Moses had gone and took Shelly and I yesterday to go see him. I couldn't believe it when I saw him. He is one and a half years old and weighs only 13 pounds, half the weight of what he should be. He can barely stand and cannot walk. He had a terrible cough and was getting little to no nutrition in his diet. He also had infected places all over his scalp. Shelly and I took him into town with up and the doctor said he had pneumonia and a little infection, but luckily, no malaria and thank God, he is HIV negative! He is staying with Shelly and I for five days so we can take him back to the clinic for treatments. And so we can spoil him with lots of food, love, and mango juice (his favorite)! I think I was completely in love the minute his big brown eyes looked up at me. He spent part of the night in Shelly's bed with her, and most of the morning in bed with me, wrapped up in my sweatshirt. He seems better today, and I even got a smile out of him!! I'm having so much fun with him, but after one night with a baby, me waking up everytime he coughed, moved, breathed, etc. I think maybe 5 days is enough! I'm just a bit sleep-deprived, but it's worth it!!
Baby Moses was living with his Jaja (grandmother) at the time. His mother died when he was one month old, and his father passed when he was 7 months old. Then, right after Shelly started working with the Jaja, she too, passed. So Baby Moses ended up in Bulenga, a good distance from Lukwange, under the care of the Jaja's daughters. Aisha, who live in Lukwange, knew where Moses had gone and took Shelly and I yesterday to go see him. I couldn't believe it when I saw him. He is one and a half years old and weighs only 13 pounds, half the weight of what he should be. He can barely stand and cannot walk. He had a terrible cough and was getting little to no nutrition in his diet. He also had infected places all over his scalp. Shelly and I took him into town with up and the doctor said he had pneumonia and a little infection, but luckily, no malaria and thank God, he is HIV negative! He is staying with Shelly and I for five days so we can take him back to the clinic for treatments. And so we can spoil him with lots of food, love, and mango juice (his favorite)! I think I was completely in love the minute his big brown eyes looked up at me. He spent part of the night in Shelly's bed with her, and most of the morning in bed with me, wrapped up in my sweatshirt. He seems better today, and I even got a smile out of him!! I'm having so much fun with him, but after one night with a baby, me waking up everytime he coughed, moved, breathed, etc. I think maybe 5 days is enough! I'm just a bit sleep-deprived, but it's worth it!! My sister gives me a stuffed animal monkey every summer I go somewhere to take and give to someone that makes an impression on me, and Moses has won my heart over! As soon as I gave him the monkey, Moses tried to feed him a cookie! It was the cutest thing! After breakfast I laid Moses down at the center with the monkey and he just started talking to the monkey and fell alseep with an arm around him!
That's as much as I have time for now, but I'll keep posting more as I get the chance!! Off to have lunch at the center and then to the clinic with my Little Man. Stay tuned...
P.S. I really hate mosquitos. Seriously.
1 comment:
Sarah,
I love reading your blogs. I know how happy you are, which makes me so very happy. Your story about Moses is amazing and he looks precious! I’m excited to hear about your classes. I understand your nervousness but you will be great and impact the girl’s lives greatly, probably more than you will ever see. Keep well. Much Love!!!
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