Thought you might like to have an idea of what my life here at Vinto looks like.
6:00 Alarm goes off. I go and turn the lights on in the two dorm rooms and tap Irlanda, Marianela, and Melvi (the three girls who go to another school and have to leave by 7:30) on the shoulder, telling them it's time to wake up.
6:10 I go back and make sure the three girls are getting up. Then I go for a quick jog.
6:45 I go and wake the rest of the girls up.
7:00 One of the girls goes and picks up our breakfast. (Every morning we get some sort of hot drink--e.g. hot milk with either rice, oatmeal, or some other grain floating in it--and a bun spread with a sort of thick caramel sauce) and all ten of us sit at the big table in our common area and eat breakfast.
7:30 Irlanda, Marianela, and Melvi hug me goodbye and head to school.
8:10 The rest of the girls head to school.
Then I have the rest of the mornings to myself to shower, spend some time with God, clean my room, wash clothes (I am actually learning to wash clothes by hand!), go to the office and use the internet, go into Quillacollo (the larger town between here and the city of Cochabamba) and do some shopping, etc.
12:30 I go to the dining hall where the girls all arrive from school, and we eat lunch.
13:00-19:00 (1 pm - 7 pm) We walk over to the dorms, work on homework, play out in the park, play games inside, and/or watch tv.
19:00 I choose two girls to walk over to the kitchen and pick up our dinner (which consists in the leftovers from lunch) We bring the food back to the dorms and eat together in the common area. After dinner I make sure the girls do all their chores (e.g. wash dishes, clean bathrooms, bedrooms, and the common area). After that they sometimes still have homework to do.
21:00 I am usually tired, I say goodnight to the girls and head to bed (All of a sudden I've acquired a taste for going to bed very early!)
THANKSGIVING (PRAISE):
-A safe trip to and from La Paz last week.
-Two special days spent with my family in La Paz.
-Experiencing God in new ways and finding comfort in His Word.
PRAYER REQUESTS:
-Wisdom to know how to deal with problems that come up in the dorms (e.g. disobedience and interpersonal problems between the girls)
-That God would remove the spirit of heaviness I have been struggling with and replace it with joy in Him.
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They sound like such lovely days. I LOVE early to bed, early to rise. Days are so much better that way.
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Sounds like a lot more than full time! How many girls are there, and is all communication via sign language, or otherwise? I hope that the girls learn to respect you so that you have the authority to help resolve their disputes!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I could ever regularly get up at 6AM, because even when I'm tired I somehow end up staying up late...
Larissa, it's nice to know there are other people out there that like to go to bed early! :-)
ReplyDeleteDaniel, if I went to bed late, I don't know if I could get up at 6 am every day either! Have your classes started up? Are you studying full time? I know that students especially seem to like to stay up to all hours (at least it seemed that way at Emmaus).
Yes, it is more than full time around here! We're kind of short on staff.
There are nine girls and all the communication is via sign language, so sometimes I feel a little "verbal conversation deprived."
The girls are respecting my authority for the most part, so I am very grateful! It makes things very difficult the times they don't!