This week has been and gone like a rash! Seriously....so fast. I feel angry at myself becasue i have not written in my journal since last Sunday. I was doing it everyday! Grrr.....Why!?!?
This week has been slighty different from the others. The whole school are doing exams so i have only been teaching once a day and the rest of the day i am marking exams. Its hard work. I unfortunaltely have got the short straw in this as i have the biggest class and the oldest class. Their work is therfore in bulk and the answers are in detail. I have been trying to mark as many as i can a day, they are doing 3 exams everyday, 90 children, about 6 pages each exam. Beautiful!! Thats about 260 exams in my class each day. Well....the first day i was only able to get done about 70. I felt awful but now i am beggining to understand the marking scheme and i have been doing around 200 each day and taking the rest home to finish.
Wednesday i woke up with a fever, Helen our housekeeper was sure i had Malaria. Ali was also ill. I was lying down feeling so useless. I then was coughing, i had a headache. My body was cold annd i was shivering and then literally 2 minutes later i was sweating! I hated it. I was trying to mark and Helen ran to get me and Ali medicine.
Me and Ali were like this most of the day. I have been taking my Malaria tablets consistently but have been bit 6 times now. O well....i didnt have Malaria so i got over it. I still had a fever but i decided to go into school. With no electricity, no water or food in the house...there was nothing to do! That evening was the bible study. I wanted to go but instead i decided to stay and get rest.
Thursday i marked and then went home to play with the street children. There are some beautiful babies that i have fallen in love with. They are all so dirty and smelly though. The children always carry the babies on their backs and when we get home from school, there are tonnes of them sitting waiting for us. There is one particular child i love. Her name is MukisaRenitta. She is adorable, she laughs and laughs and giggles and although i am picking up a few words they are saying now, there is a language barrier but me and Renitta can get on so well because we just sit and laugh! Literally for hours. I have been teaching her the numbers and letters and i have teaching her and her brothers and sisters simple english through some pathetic drawings.
This week, i have had about 8 letters from parents of children in my class, children and street children asking for money, school fees and sponsership. Its so hard turning children down and i have been praying about it all. Funnily enough there is a teacher at school that asked us all for money to sanctify their marriage. I know that she talks about us badly and she has sat infront of me in a lesson talking to another teacher about me, i know also that she lies to us about things but i really believe God has encouraged me to give to her a small amount of money towards her wedding! Crazy i know, i can't even put into words. Like i know that God doesn't want me to give to some of the children who want school fees but i know God wants me to give to this lady. Anyways, yesterday i was being constantly sick in the morning and then in between lessons, perhaps it was something i ate, perhaps it was something to do with my fever but i feel so much better now. Our water and electricity has come back . Hopefully it will stay for a while as a week without it, im being honest here, was hard! Real hard!
The computers i use never allow me to put pictures on, its horrid. I want to show you this place! Its incredible.
The situ with the team, is a bit better. We are all getting on so well, we are all crazy which i LOVE! Yay! This week we have read the bible together once. Yay again! And Last night was amazing i just have to tell you. I am sorry if the email is so long!
Every Friday at the church is this 2 hour slot for prayer. We didn't know what it would be like or how it would go but.....Nobody wanted to go with me but i begged Aveline. I am so glad she came because when we got there we were told to sit anywhere and begin to pray. I suddenly thought, what? We are praying for two hours straight on our own. I don't think i have ever done that. I thought that i would start thinking about other things or....you know. It was awesome! So awesome! I have never felt so close to God in my life. I love the Lord! He is helping me to draw near to him and become close through something that sounds so simple.
I sat next to aveline and began to pray. Everyone was dotted around the church praying out loud to God. I started to pray out loud, meaning every word, putting everything i had onto God, thanking him, talking to him like he was here in person. I really felt his presence and i couldnt stop praying. It is so easy to talk to god, and i was surprised in a way! I loved it, i prayed so hard and i was brought to tears at how i had never been able to talk to him like this before. Why hadn't i ever spoke to God this way? I promised God i would do it again soon. I will!
Today we are going to church to 'join the worship group'. Bit nervous as they want us all to sing etc. Can you also pray because the pastor has asked me to do a cermon......yes you read this right. On the 2nd, to the youth. Also on Sunday, the church want me to sing as the worship leader says i have a voice like an angel! hahaha......
