Ahh, Sunday afternoon, nice to have a break- I'm on call today but haven't had any emergencies which is a great gift of rest.
So the summer keeps getting closer. I am really pretty busy with things in Langano- we've had so many teams! Anyways, I'm working away on getting my latrines finished, taking these team members out of home visits (which is really fun), I was in a wedding last weekend as a bridesmaid ("protocol"- see blog), and then I went out to another wedding on Tuesday night- the night I slept with the bride!! Ha! I can't remember if I blogged about that or not.
With all these details this summer- flights, we still don't have ours yet, schedules of when to be where, parents with interesting comments about travel :) etc., I had a day last week where I just admitted- didn't ask, but admitted to God- GOSH I wish I could just have a face to face conversation with Brian!
Well Thursday afternoon I got a call from SIM's government relations department saying that I absolutely had to come to Addis the next day to appear in person in a government office so my work permit could get renewed! I would not have chosen that as a time to go to Addis because Allyson's team was there and I was helping out, but when you have to go you have to go, and of course I knew I would get to see Brian, so it was a great little break.
I caught a ride with Kim, then a ride with a stranger to Mojo, then a minibus in to Addis the next day and made great time. We went to the office that very afternoon, and the man was very cooperative Generally those offices can be very hard to deal with and hard to get anything done, but this man said, "I see you have left your countries to come here and serve. I wonder if I would have the same courage you have. Here is my phone number, if you ever have any problems, call me because I know many people." It was a really pleasant exchange.
Then, I got my wish! Face to face with Brian, over Korean food at the new Korean restaurant, none the less! We went on a date that night, it was so fun packing "date" clothes the night before in Langano knowing I'd get to go out with him. It was fun just relaxing and telling him about all the wedding adventures down here, then I pulled out my calendar and we kicked around dates and ideas for the summer. It felt great!
This week, until Wednesday, I am alone- no other nurses here. I'm just praying that nothing beyond my own clinical capability comes in! Also we have no car here so if someone needed urgently to go to the hospital we would just have to send them on using their own donkey cart!
I'm planning on moving out of Langano on the weekend of May 15. So these next few weeks will have a lot of wrapping up in them.
