day 9

There is so much to say, it’s overwhelming. I opened my first soda with my teeth, which is a big success for it only being 9 days in. YES! Mothers – you are not allowed to call and patronize me about this one. Today was very cool, no sun and rainy which was a great break. No water currently in jinja and we have no clue when it will come back. It could be by tomorrow, or in a few weeks. 7 half-town power surges when I tried to get on the internet. I met two little twin girls today that were terrified of muzungus. They were crying terribly at our presence. Eh, it happens.

I ate mukene, which is small fish, whole, eyes staring you down.

Swim swimmies as I like to call them, because the day I had to eat a whole bowl of them I also was in multiple villages and it was my only meal I ate until late dinner. All I could think was swim swimmies in my belly all day. No bueno.

Speaking of Spanish, I had my first luo lesson. Went well, learned a lot.

But the one thing that doesn’t change much is my heart. It only operates in 3 capacities right now, and sometimes in multiple capacities at a time. The first being joy, gladness, and service. The second: sadness, an ache for Brendan to be with me. [Although he is not physically with me, he is with me, he is bearing with me and fighting for me in prayer, which has been amazing within itself] The third, exhaustion and being beyond tired and also includes craving American food. Every minute to the next, it’s trying to figure out the current status and trying to understand which is coming next. I’ve been getting good at knowing the second one is coming. I’m always trying to extend the time I’m operating in the first, and learning not to fight when the third one hits. My heart has been learning so much, and needless to say god is so good. He is stretching, growing, and teaching me. It really is so good.

But right now I’m in capacity 3 and crashing hard. So goodnight muzungus. Love you.