October 6, 2010 (Wednesday)

Unlike I mention before, I am not on evening duty. The schedule has changed so I have this last week off. It’s kind of interesting ‘being off’. I need to figure out the balance of relaxing, site seeing and helping out around the hospital on my off days. I still want to be helping, but I know I need to have some be still/chill time!

October 10, 2010 (Sunday)

Happy 10-10-10!

It’s a day after my birthday and I must say it wasn’t too bad! I had been really dreading it. In fact I attempted to have it not posted on Facebook, but that didn’t work out too well as some of you realized. I’d have to say that I did appreciate all the birthday wishes. It was very sweet and it made me start missing friends and family.

With our new schedule I ended up working the Sabbath shift. God definitely blessed me with a quiet morning. (Yes, I would love more patients, just not when I’m by myself!) Later that afternoon Moriah gave me the gift that Ashley had made for me. I must say it was a pretty awesome gift, Ashley! She did an amazing job putting all the pictures, quotes, videos and music together. It gave me a lot of laughs seeing all the pictures of friends and family and it caused me to wish that you could all be here with me!

So, one of the many pleasures we’ve been able to have in the short time here is imitation Nutella. As I mentioned before Moriah and I have been craving sugar. When Moriah bought the ‘nutella’ I had made some chappatis (the other thing that we love!) and we spoiled ourselves with 3 WHOLE ‘chocolate burritos’! Yum! We’ve also made sugar cookies minus the baking powder and soda and added flakes chocolate kisses and cranberries. If I had made these in the States I would probably have thought they were pretty horrible, but they are oh so scrumptious here! The other treat is our honey- not only for the sugar, but also for the humor.

Yadikwa Natural Honey- The Best Choice, Best Quality Highly Medicinal Extra Pure Yadikwa Honey Helps for The Following:

1. Stomach ulcers

2. Weakness or General Fatigue

3. Poison

4. Fire or Boil water

5. Weak sexual power

6. Gastric

7. Cough

8. Malaria

Definitely a cure all! And what’s interesting about this honey is that it taste more like molasses then honey. So, since I love molasses, it’s basically amazing on our brick bread!