Anticipation!

This week we visited a Choma Community School. They have 370 kids for 7 teachers. They do not have books for everyone so they write on this board every day for the children to see the sentence structures.

This is a class room. During the rainy season they fit under ONE half-roof building.

Second graders.

Seventh grade class room.

Ice cream party! We have a new appreciate for our education. It's a privilege, not a right in Zambia.

The two week mark is approaching us and it is hard to believe! Every day the team is getting to know each other better! We are having a lot of fun, sometimes maybe a little too much fun! (not possible, right?) When we are not studying we are playing games, watching movies, doing workout videos in the hallway, or going on long walks!

These two weeks have also had its challenges. I am feeling apprehensive about starting clinicals in the hospital. I feel like jumping out of my skin - I can not wait to serve the patients God brings before me in Zambia!!!! On Monday and Tuesday I will be traveling to Zimba Mission Hospital for two days of clinical. This will be the first time I will have my own patients in a third world country! The only thing I can do is to get on my knees in desperation for God to be my hands to heal my patient's sickness, to be my words to bring hope, and to be in the love that I give away!

Psalm 103:1-5 - Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits - who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.