Oh, the places you'll go

I reckon it's about time I write again-it has been about a month.
I've got a sugar rush in my head after downing 200 Jelly Beans that I received in a package from home along with some fresh new tea leaves and books...:) Nothing like a rush in the head to help writer's block-or not.

Dr. Suess really meant it when he speaks about life in "Oh, the places you'll go"-deeply profound children's book. You will go to high places and then end up in slumps-currently I'm in a high place, soaking in God's blessings-even amid the faultiness of my life (like covering an entire dry/erase board with the wrong marker...my 6th graders laughing and saying "duh! stupid gringa".)-humble pie is progressively getting tastier, the more I nibble on it. I've enjoyed being back on a schedule-Spring Break was so random and I went on two exhausting trips to rural villages where the temperatures were above 100 degrees and the dust coated my skin giving me an impressive dirt, Chaco tan.

The Caui trip was four days. Lots of kiddos and no sleep. I saw little of the bathroom because there was not always water and due to the truly,truly authentic MX food we were eating-things were a little stopped up. Raw meat carried in buckets to our kitchen/dinning room was a new sight for me. As I sat eating (ALL, no waste) of my soggy tortillas in meat on a bone soaked in a greasy salsa with flies all about I turned to see a little butt-naked child getting cleaned, in the open for everyone to see. Glimpses into what is so ordinary in Caui, was new for me. Caui has a lot of African people mixed in with the Mexican heritage-the people there are beautiful.


At Casa Hogar I'm able to laugh a lot more with the older girls and find ways to mingle with them, whether braiding their hair constantly or just being silly, silly,silly. Big weekend plans: I get to go to a 3rd graders birthday party! :) In Mexico they have Dia de Ninos which is an entire weekend/season that celebrates children-yeah, really. For Easter we had a beautiful sunrise service on the coast!

My brain is currently: exhausted. I am fighting tiredness these days, but surviving with lots of tea and coffee. Spiritually, I am attempting stay daily in tune with God-resting in His strength-the strength of joy in any circumstance! However, I have been having fearful dreams at night-and am praying to be rid of them. There was some drug violence/shoot out on the main road not long after the kids and I passed along last week-5 people killed.

I'm getting so incredibly lazy about writing and so I believe this is about all I have to say! I'm currently writing a newsletter/prayer letter to send out. If you are not receiving those emails and would like to, just let me know.

I've been accepted into UK Graduate School, but am currently praying about whether that is really where I'm supposed to end up. My heart and mind is so often elsewhere-I want to continue to serve overseas-working with orphans. I read an article in my new favorite magazine-WORLD-about the number of orphans in Haitit that has doubled and will probably never be adopted-increasing possibilities of more child trafficking. This news tugs at my heart and I don't just want to dream of ways to eventually help them, but like Nehemiah-just do it. But, I am waiting on God.

Thank you for your prayers! I will try to write sooner with more news because I leave ACA June 7th!