I was able to spend two afternoons this week in the
slums. As I have mentioned before I love
the work in the slums. It is always a
blessing to spend time with these precious children. It always amazes me how polite and lovely
some of these kids can be. It is so
humbling when they thank you for the food and ask God to bless you for what you
have done for them. Despite how dire some of these children’s circumstances
are...we always manage to have a good laugh, which is such a blessing! This week one of the children told me I was
walking like a crocodile! This caused much hilarity. When I asked him what he meant he said it was
because I was walking so slowly. I think
he meant a tortoise! The reason I was
walking like this was because there was a young man with a horrendous foot
injury that I was assisting. His injured
foot was double the size of the other one and was somewhat of a mess, after
being run over by a car. Whilst I feel
somewhat under qualified to deal with these injuries, it is a blessing to at
least be able to show them some love.
When the kids in the slums call me ‘doctor’, I assure them that I am not
a doctor, I am a teacher and that I am simply trying!
I
just remembered a funny moment from the week that is too good not to
share. So, when I was teaching the P6s
on Wednesday morning one of the boys, Michael, announced that when he was older
he wanted to be the president of Scotland!
I explained that we did not have a president, to which he replied that
he would be the first! His friend, John then said he would like to be the King
of Scotland. I again explained that we
did not have a King in Scotland. To
which he also replied that he would be the first!
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| Michael, putting on his super serious presidential face?! |
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| John Bosco - the future King of Scotland!? |
How are things at Craigdhu?
P7s - when is your residential trip? Was it Feb or is it March - would love to hear all about it!
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Miss G x
