Tuesday, March 30, 2010

What we have been up to!

Hi everyone!!
We had a great sabbath on Sunday.  We went to a small church, the service was 3 hours long, with 2 sermons, lots of singing and clapping, and testimonies.  The passion and energy they had while praising and praying was very inspiring.  Then we went to a fancy hotel in order to get some consistent and reasonable internet, we also had a great lunch while there.  We then stopped by a souvenir market, and were swarmed by sellers wanting to sell what they had made.  They make very beautiful wood carvings here.  After buying a few things, we had to leave since it was getting dark.  We then came back and had dinner at Maribeth's, which was great pasta, rolls, and salad.  It was a nice and relaxing day.

On Monday we went to town to run a few errands and got to a fabric store, where we all got some more things to bring home.  Then we went out to the country to see "Miqlat", which is a "hope center" where they serve 9 surrounding villages.  They provide the children with food once a day, health check ups, HIV testing, and some tutoring for those children either struggling or excelling in school.  They have developed "farming God's way", and have been very successful in their crops compared to surrounding farms.  We also got to see a few families in the surrounding villages, which was interesting.  After our tour, we returned to town and had a great Italian dinner.

Today the OTs did a training at Feed The Children on sensory integration, it was fun to be back with cute kids and their parents.  A few therapists and rehab technicians came as well, and after lunch we met with them to go more in depth about sensory integration, NDT therapy, and pediatric therapy in general.  It was a nice time with colleagues.  The children are seen by therapists at Feed The Children and are much younger, so they are looking much better than the children at Chikondi.  We go back again tomorrow, to do some hands on therapy activities.  After Feed The Children we went to look at more souvenirs- they were done by a mom in the church Maribeth attends.  Her carvings were very nice, we were excited to buy more "cool" stuff and bless someone who would use the money well- to send her children to school.  Then we had a nice dinner at a friend's house- it was beautiful!!

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We miss you all!
Cheri & Kim and the rest of the team

2 comments:

Brian Wieland said...

Glad to see that your diverse array of activities is still going well. We're looking forward to your safe return this weekend.

Jenny W said...

I am sure the therapists, families, and staff are just thrilled to have the opportunity to learn more about SI and NDT and share. What is so wonderful is how much it will benefit the kids.

Hi to Cheri, Kim, Melynda, and Jan!