Hello everybody!
Yesterday (Tuesday) was an incredibly full day...mentally & physically.
We are staying with a local family and enjoying the customs here. Lots of great cheese, yogurt and tea. Our family has a wonderful garden with grape trellis, and everything else you can imagine growing. Chickens, rooster...really everything needed to live! We had a short orientation and then immediately went to play/work. We made chili and cornbread yesterday for our party last evening. We went to computer class, English class, rug making class--all levels involved here! The students here at the vo-tech are so much fun. So happy and gaining self confidence daily. They are treasures to be with and we enjoyed the day. It was so much fun to prepare the food with the young girls and we played bananas with the kids in English class. The teachers here are awesome and full of energy and all bright spots in this world. We have also made a new friend who is a peace corp volunteer from Shawnee OK. She is about my age and we speak the same language. Fun! I also got to spend time in the psych. hospital. We did art class in which I challenged them to do something different than normal. We did music class and performed for each other. And I was able to do exercise/yoga class for the men and women yesterday. That was a great experience! I loved to share this with them. This hospital is an unbelievable experience and like no place you have ever seen or been. I can't really explain it, but I know some are very sick and some don't seem sick at all. Last night we got to spend some time with Z who is a wonderful widow woman with 3 boys. She is making it! She is a leader and is definitely a bright light. We encouraged her and were able to support her with words of love. We are making meat stew today, doing classes and have done music already. We sang lots of old familiar songs you love and have not heard for a long, long, time! Fun!!! We are making makeup bags and loving it!!! We are broken and full. We are having a blast!
Ruthie
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