This past few days that i have been sick, i have been able to be home and relax. This has proved to be a great blessing to me. I have had time to reflect on life a little more and actually calm down, feeling content with whatever life gives me. I have been away from home and familiar territory for a while and been sick here but have recived som cmuh love and help. The cook here makes me a special tea with differing things in it to help me(hadnt even asked for it, he just made me a cup and gave it to me, takes a while to prepare too) and it helps :P The doctor was really nice and helpful, came home to where i live and check up on me and is coming back tomorrow to see if everything has gone ok. he really showed concern, been a long time since i felt that cared for by a doctor :P Also my tandum partner has been wanting me to keep from getting sick so be bought me a scarf, and took me to the places that offered the cheapest medicin (hard to nkow in this place). in spanish class my teacher is really concerned :P and everytime i coughed(pretty outdrawn coughs) eveeryboy is class turns around bc they think im about to die. haha. I guess i would be a bit freaked out to but i aint termonally ill:P I am happy for this experience of being in a country where i feel all bevildered, it makes me both appreciate and also see all the small things that make a difference. Things done not out of duty but out of the wonderful gift of caring.
i have also watched avatar for the first time togniht. it gave me many thoughts. Being here in peru kindof feels like that other world of the avatars, its a life that is different to mine and i wil have to leave it soon and go back to my reality, made me think that i just want to give this place my all and also embrace it while i can. Enjoy every moment of laughter, of food, of service, of learning spanish(i really enjoy that, our teacher is so funny too, such a charmer), hearing lovely accents from all over the place, wonderful adventures, wonderful ppl that i am so greatful god gave me the oppertunity to meet. Living in this house feels like one big happy family where everybody likes everybody and it's jsut such a nice atmosphere, you really learn to love them. My roomie is studying to be a doctor and she heard my breathing and then sounded really excited. "cold i please listen to your lungs with the stefaskope!?" (i really cant remember how to spell that right now:P). so cute, glad to ave a doctor in the room, quiet a few actually :P giving me tips and stuff. I always seem to be surrounded by them for some reason, maybe i will get really sick later on? haha
Part of the reason why i feel this great grattitute is also that i have been wanting to focus on gods love and been praying to feel it and right now i feel it and it is amasing and i want to hold on to it as long as i can.
anyway. i really need to try and sleep now, was just way to happy to go directly to bed, been remarkly awake even if i havn't slept more than 2hours the night before. :P strange.
anyway..goodnight
Friday, 9 July 2010
Monday, 5 July 2010
Aussies!
yupp, another aussie moved into the house enabling me to sue the words jelly, jam, too right, sweet as and so forth without seeming like a weirdo amongst all the americans :P i´m so happy!!! :D i jsut love the aussies, there way of free expression and kindness, humblesness, their joking about, their hoenstly, i dont know, i cant really explain more more than that they are aussies :P the other volutneers inthe house are really cool so i do love it here. I think i´ve managed to loose some wait as they give us model sized portions of food :P feeeeling good.
anyway. i was at chruch this weekend and it was really nice. the guy that translated for me last week told me he had been on his mission his english was really good, sounded like he had been a member for a long time, then this sunday his mum got the holy ghost...so what was cool, knowingf the story behind it. it was really nice meeting and i got translation from a older man who had served his mission in spain (there were like 30 americans tourists there this sunday:P), but i do think i am the only permanent gringo for a while. they ppl are really nice though, got offered to follow with a family to bolivia for a few days, kindof tempted :P its a busride away.
anyway.....i´ve started meeting my tandom, its really cool to finally jsut meet some regular locals. He is really nice and his english is really good, i am impressed by all locals that speak a bit of english bc ther are not many, which i guess is helpful to my spanish.
the school i work at now has such cute kids and well planned workers, very appreciated and seldomly found within the volunteeer field. one of the little girls keeps correctinbg my spanish when i saty something wrong. very helpful and so cute :P
anyway......talk another time!
hugs
anyway. i was at chruch this weekend and it was really nice. the guy that translated for me last week told me he had been on his mission his english was really good, sounded like he had been a member for a long time, then this sunday his mum got the holy ghost...so what was cool, knowingf the story behind it. it was really nice meeting and i got translation from a older man who had served his mission in spain (there were like 30 americans tourists there this sunday:P), but i do think i am the only permanent gringo for a while. they ppl are really nice though, got offered to follow with a family to bolivia for a few days, kindof tempted :P its a busride away.
anyway.....i´ve started meeting my tandom, its really cool to finally jsut meet some regular locals. He is really nice and his english is really good, i am impressed by all locals that speak a bit of english bc ther are not many, which i guess is helpful to my spanish.
the school i work at now has such cute kids and well planned workers, very appreciated and seldomly found within the volunteeer field. one of the little girls keeps correctinbg my spanish when i saty something wrong. very helpful and so cute :P
anyway......talk another time!
hugs
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