Not as planned

As many of you will know, last week didn't go as planned. I woke up late on Tuesday morning and had to rush to catch the bus. (Needless to say I am now using an alarm) On the way I rolled my ankle but didn't think it was too bad. However, by the end of the day I was in quite a lot of pain and ended up fainting on the bus home. Not an experience I would like to repeat! Definitely disconcerting to have an entire busload of people craning to see what happened to make the bus stop suddenly and people yell for a U-turn back to the hospital. Thankfully that was the worst of it and x-rays showed it to be just a sprain. Thanks so much for all the supporting prayers everyone. I had my 5 days complete rest and it seems to be doing just fine now.

Started back at school yesterday and tried a new transport route. This one has been the best so far in terms of speed so I'm all for anything that lets me sleep an extra 15min. I do have to change trains and then onto a bus but it's not drastically difficult. I watched the older kids in class yesterday which was definitely a lot calmer but harder for me to see where I could be useful. So I'm back with the wee ones and am exhausted by the time I get home. I helped teach English yesterday and am pleased to report that everyone can now say "hello" and "bye" and "how are you". It's definitely a different ball game teaching kids this age - I shall have to get my creative hat on. Today is the first day of autumn so we all went outside to collect dead leaves and stuck them into their books. Created quite a mess on the floor! I'm still struggling a bit with what my role is but am currently more than happy to just cuddle kids and play with them and smile for them. Sure, some of them are willfully bad but I simply wonder what their homes are like. I think they are just looking for attention.

A man was using the horse and cart to deliver vegetables

Just one photo for you, still working on getting some at school. But this really reminded me that Renca is a poor part of town!