5:15 – My alarm startles me
awake. I set it to snooze, but
finally get up at 5:25. It’s cold
this morning (like most mornings… what’s new?).
6:00 – My time with God. I’m reading through the parables of
Jesus alongside Christ’s Object Lessons.
6:30 – I head up to Krystle’s
morning worship at the church.
She’s covering the Lord’s Prayer.
Very intriguing. We ended
the worship with everyone repeating the Lord’s Prayer… most of them in Nepali,
with a few of us saying it in English!
Pretty neat!
7:30 – Breakfast! Mmm… I had fried rice, sweet rice,
millet waffle and chicu (a most delicious local fruit.).
8:30 – Brushed my teeth, combed my
hair and headed out the door to help Krystle with the last few girls who have
the massage practical to complete.
I’m the “dummy,” which means they do the practical on me. It was pretty cold as it was, but what
made it worse was the girls had freezing cold hands! Talk about non-relaxing! No sleeping through this massage!
10:30 – Phew. Done with the practical! I’m ready to start cleaning teeth. Who should I pick first? I chose Jamuna.
11:00 – Cleaning Jamuna’s teeth
12:00 – Still cleaning Jamuna’s
teeth.
1:15 – Finally done! Man, did she have dental problems! It took me over an hour just to work on
her bottom teeth! And, to top it
off, she kept salivating, causing to her to have to spit every 5 minutes. She’s one of the ones that really
needed a cleaning. Glad to have
helped her (although, she complained her jaw hurt after… I’m not surprised!).
1:30 – Lunch! Rice, stir-fry, cucumber salad and
dahl. We have dahl and rice
everyday. I don’t think I’ll miss
rice too much when I leave Asia.
Or dahl, for that matter (especially when you almost always break a
tooth on small rocks that aren’t cleaned out of the lentils).
2:30 – I start working on Hannah’s
teeth. She had her teeth cleaned
the month before by a novice so she wanted another novice to check her
teeth. It was boring…nothing to
clean, really. I’m guessing most
teeth in America will look about as good as hers did. How unexciting.
3:00 – Preparing for my Women’s
Ministries class. I have the topic
“leading small groups.” I felt I
could easily find stuff to talk about on that one since I kind of led a very
small group of young people in Idaho.
I think I might talk a little too long though… we’ll see.
5:00 – Started
Women’s Ministries class… late.
The girls were given a test that proved to be much more complicated then
they’d expected. They all moaned
at how long it was too (1 page, front and back). I couldn’t help but chuckle when I thought of my exams in
college – 5 or 6 pages with 2 hours to complete. And I usually spent a good hour and a half doing them.
5:30 – Finished my talk. I had to speak quickly so as to keep
within the time limit. The topic
was good, but the girls seemed a little tired by the time we finished. I think that exam wiped them out. Now for staff worship.
6:45 – Staff
worship ends and we all have some warm homemade soymilk with rice puffs. I started feeling really sick during
the worship. I could tell that I
had a low-grade fever.
7:30 – Auntie
Lori checks my temp and, sure enough, I have a low-grade fever (99.4°F). I really didn’t feel well. We sat up and talked for a while and then Senteal came over
to sing some songs with us. He’s
learning to sing in English pretty well.
He knows like over 6 languages!
These crazy people who learn languages so fast. I hardly can get past mastering one
language.
8:30 – I’m miserable. My fever has gone up and I feel
chilled. I drag myself around
trying to get ready for bed.
9:00 – I have my nighttime prayer
and thank God for Auntie Lori.
She’s taken the job of watching over me seriously. She gives me my dose of icky oregano
oil to make me well, tucks me in bed, and hands me my hot water bottle. What a Godsend!
