I found a German!

The world just keeps getting smaller and smaller.  I keep meeting people with mutual friends or something else in common.  Last week there were two guys here that are good friends with one of my counselors from Csehy.  There's a group from Liberty here and we have quite a few mutual friends through Csehy. Yesterday, I met a guy from another group that lived in Germany for 12 years and went to Black Forest Academy, where I know some people.  I had been joking last week that I wish there was someone that spoke German or French so that someone could understand me since my Spanish is not getting me anywhere.  Unfortunately they left today so we won't get to talk anymore.  It's crazy how I've been running into people this far away from home. 

Sunday was a relaxing day for all of us.  After church where we sang and danced to worship the Lord, we had lunch and I took a nap in a hammock for three hours.

On Monday, our supervisor asked us to organize the back part of the office which has a bunch of filing cabinets and boxes and bags and is just a mess.  We spent all day going through the cabinets and pulling out donations, art supplies, office supplies, old electronics, and hardware to put in boxes.  Although when we put everything back, it looks just as messy as when we started, you can actually find things now.  One cabinet is dedicated to labels and shipping envelopes and another is solely for office supplies.  After dinner, we had a devotion and worship with the volunteers.  It finally stormed for real.  You couldn't hear anything.

The area we organized

Tuesday morning we finished organizing and then in the afternoon we went to a village to pass out TOMs.  After the kids get a ticket, they get in line for the feet to be measured with this foot template thing.  Then they go receive their shoes and they get their feet washed too.  It was a lot of chaos since people were everywhere and the line was more of a clump.  The village was pretty well established.  It had fields and greenhouses and although the houses were mud huts, they were clean.  They even had a stereo and sound system.  It was still cool to be able to provide these kids with another pair of shoes.  When we gave out all the shoes, the kids sang two songs for us.  One little girl grabbed the microphone when they were done and said "Gracias por mis zapatos!" She was precious.      

Making a foot template