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Hi again! Yet another week has flown by! It's absolutely amazing how things just fly around here. Days go by without any warning, you know what I mean? My shift was a night shift last night (which we got to sleep most of, PRAISE the LORD!) and that will really mess with your head for a bit. None the less, it was great, although a little slow. The clinic runs 24/7, so there is always a team in the clinic ready to help a women deliver her baby into loving arms who will give the best care possible. That also means that there are times when the night becomes your day. Ahhh, such is the life.
Ok, so about these pictures. Let me preface all this my saying that this blog has been altogether a trial in and of itself. This time I can't do what I thought I knew how to do, so sorry it's a little jumbled with words and pictures being so separated. It's reminding of how much I really don't know, even the little stuff.
Three of theses were supposed to be videos...well, they seem to be just plain pictures here. Go figure! It's all the outside of the house. The little alley like walkways that connect the front of the house to the back of the house. And, the neighbors to the right of us...well, we can all access each others houses if we really wanted to for any reason. "What about the house to our left where the other girls are living," you ask. Good question. We're not connected to them. Nope, a large cement wall separates us, however, they can walk to the clinic through a little door in the side, even though the house and the clinic are not owned by the same people. It is working out nicely right now, but when we move. Well, this is the Philippines. hehe. There's just funny things like that sometimes.
Our laundry is only done with cold water. (Just like our showers!) So, if there is a spot on your clothes plan on it being there unless you heat up water and hand wash it. Yes, I have done that! After a wash, they have to be hung up to dry. Electricity is expensive here, so we probably wouldn't really want to use a dryer even if we had one. The line is quite effective. The days are hot enough for clothes to hang from morning to afternoon and be dry! Imagine that! It's not because we think it's so nice to have the "fresh air scent" (it's not exactly the country here) it's just life. If it rains, as it does often, and your clothes are out, well, they'll just have to wait another day out there.
Oh, and our garden. That's a very random picture. It just seemed fun to through that in there for kicks. We don't have a yard, but one of the girls has taken up keeping a few plants (lots of aloe) growing. It adds a lovely green patch in the green cement.
Back to laundry. This is a simple example in a practical way of the complete lack of privacy here. Our dorm is very Westernized, but as for the culture around us, not so much. Our neighbors probably know our life better than we do because that's just the way things are. "All our laundry is out on the line." As more examples come up, I'll pass them along. It would be really good if the videos would work...have to work on that one.
Prayers for the coming week:
- Continued steadfastness in Jesus as the exam is getting closer.
- Quick learning on shifts!
- Learning to both serve and be graciously serve.
- Continued church hunt
- Health! Two of the girls are sick...it would be great if that didn't run through all of us.
"Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude." -Colossians 2:6-7
Ok, so about these pictures. Let me preface all this my saying that this blog has been altogether a trial in and of itself. This time I can't do what I thought I knew how to do, so sorry it's a little jumbled with words and pictures being so separated. It's reminding of how much I really don't know, even the little stuff.
Three of theses were supposed to be videos...well, they seem to be just plain pictures here. Go figure! It's all the outside of the house. The little alley like walkways that connect the front of the house to the back of the house. And, the neighbors to the right of us...well, we can all access each others houses if we really wanted to for any reason. "What about the house to our left where the other girls are living," you ask. Good question. We're not connected to them. Nope, a large cement wall separates us, however, they can walk to the clinic through a little door in the side, even though the house and the clinic are not owned by the same people. It is working out nicely right now, but when we move. Well, this is the Philippines. hehe. There's just funny things like that sometimes.
Our laundry is only done with cold water. (Just like our showers!) So, if there is a spot on your clothes plan on it being there unless you heat up water and hand wash it. Yes, I have done that! After a wash, they have to be hung up to dry. Electricity is expensive here, so we probably wouldn't really want to use a dryer even if we had one. The line is quite effective. The days are hot enough for clothes to hang from morning to afternoon and be dry! Imagine that! It's not because we think it's so nice to have the "fresh air scent" (it's not exactly the country here) it's just life. If it rains, as it does often, and your clothes are out, well, they'll just have to wait another day out there.
Oh, and our garden. That's a very random picture. It just seemed fun to through that in there for kicks. We don't have a yard, but one of the girls has taken up keeping a few plants (lots of aloe) growing. It adds a lovely green patch in the green cement.
Back to laundry. This is a simple example in a practical way of the complete lack of privacy here. Our dorm is very Westernized, but as for the culture around us, not so much. Our neighbors probably know our life better than we do because that's just the way things are. "All our laundry is out on the line." As more examples come up, I'll pass them along. It would be really good if the videos would work...have to work on that one.
Prayers for the coming week:
- Continued steadfastness in Jesus as the exam is getting closer.
- Quick learning on shifts!
- Learning to both serve and be graciously serve.
- Continued church hunt
- Health! Two of the girls are sick...it would be great if that didn't run through all of us.
"Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude." -Colossians 2:6-7
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