Hey Moqqi,
okay, so we have a little bit of free time today again before we go into a local village a do a kids club (it will only take a couple hours), so i decided to email you a more detailed description of what life is really like out here.
okay, well as far as the cho (bathroom) situation, its pretty narly. i have taken pictures of all the cho's but one...it was on the boat ride home. we had to go in a bucket! i didn't get a picture of it because it was hard to get to and it would have looked weird if we had taken pics. anyway, it was pretty intense because with each rock of the boat, the pee-water would splash around! gross! also, pray for me because when we do get the chance to bathe, it's not super sanitary because we just use the water that's here.
i have had some issues with my feet. coni accidentally gave my shoes to one of the nationals (not realizing they were mine) and when i told him it was a mistake, he misinterpreted it as i was giving them to him. it was actually really sweet and i was super blessed because of it. he was so thankful and truly felt blessed. so, though i'll have to get new shoes at home, those will probably be the nicest shoes he will ever have out here. its crazy. basically all of america's hand-me-downs are what they sell out here. the men wear women's shoes, the girls wear men's. its pretty much whatever fits them and that are somewhat comfortable. its been really humbling. the only down side is that i keep injuring my right foot. i stepped on this bamboo shard that was sticking up out of the sand at the lake in igalula and cut a small hole in the bottom of my foot. a couple days later i got a splinter in my second big toe from stepping on a reed with my left foot and then stepping into it with my right. so, joanne the nurse, dug it out with a needle. ouch! (oh, but the cool thing during that was that i got to see this other locals' ---he's actually the son of a missionary---finger that got crushed from a 150 pound rock falling on it when he was in another village building a church). it definitely made my splinter look miniscule, but i held the flashlight for his dressing, and he held it for mine!! hahahha! i'm such a wimp. then, yesterday, this huge crate arrived and all the guys were unloading it. coni let me be in charge of taking pictures, so i was walking around and stepped on some kind of thorn that went through my sandal into my foot . yeah, it hurt but there was no mark. it wasn't until later that a little bruise thing showed up. i don't think that anything is in it, but the doctor said to just keep it clean. (dr. len is the missionary doctor that is from america that lives out here and he's great!) about the pictures i took yesterday, i will be sending them out for coni's home church to make a slide show, so i will be including your email in on that :) there might not be a lot of me, but know that i was taking them :)
i hope that this email has given you a better idea of what is going on out here. the food is actually pretty good. i have become way more tough in the sense of spiders were crawling all over my legs during one of our kids clubs, and i was just calmly brushing them off. who would have thought!
well, i only have 3 minutes. i hope that this has helped to fill you in better of what life out here is like and what i'm going through somewhat on a daily basis
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