Being sick abroad = :(

I am happy to report that I made it to work on Monday and felt 100% better! It was only a 24 hour thing, but nonetheless, it was not very fun to go through. Being sick so far away from home was really hard for me. On Sunday afternoon, I was laying in bed in tears wishing my parents were there to take care of me. I had a fever and felt absolutely miserable! If there was a plane outside of my house flying to America, I would have jumped on it without even a second thought! I prayed that God would strengthen and comfort me; I felt really alone in my suffering. Almost immediately, I fell asleep and when I woke up an hour later, I still felt really sick, but I felt well rested and completely at peace. The house was quiet (which rarely ever is true of my household!) except for the faint sound of of dishes being washed in the kitchen and saxophone music playing from the radio-like what my mom listens to sometimes! I closed my eyes and it seemed like I was at home! The rest of the night was fine, I woke up around 3 am and realized that I wasn't sick anymore! :) God is truly faithful, never leaving us, even when we are suffering!

My internship is going very well! I am spending a lot of time with the girls as my supervisor has been really busy with meetings and training this week. I have been doing a lot of reading, singing, and playing hide and seek! Yesterday, they taught me how to make dolls from just scraps of fabric. They really like singing and learning songs from me-everyday they show me that they remember parts of them even with the small amount of English that some of them know. I've been teaching them 'This Little Light of Mine', the "Don't let Satan 'whoowh' it out!" part is their favorite! I love all of the girls, but I am especially fond of Mercy who is around 9 or 10 years old. She is so eager to show me what she knows, especially in reading and math-yesterday she and I read together for 2 hours! I was really impressed by her reading ability! I could tell that she loved having one on one time with me. Today I found out that she has been at the center for a year and she is an orphan-when she got to the center, she had never gone to school and didn't even know how to hold a pencil! I was amazed! She has made great progress in just a year!