Pipelines, Confusion, and Sick People.

Again I was in the garden by 7 AM. I continued digging the 50 foot pipeline. A couple more days and my pipeline to China will be finished. Regarding the pipeline: The work is hard, and hard on the back. Hot and sweaty. I come back to the house looking African with all the dirt. Yes, work is hard, but that is what I came for, right. Lol. I am really just hoping for a tan after all of this. I am so white. Lol

After starting my day off dirty, I went to find Enert, a woman who helps with family support. I waited for about thirty minutes, and then I found her. We went to a house and started to clean. Her English was pretty bad. After a while another woman came in, and she said she was Enert. Her shirt had her name on it, so I guess the lady I thought was Enert wasn't really! lol I wonder who she thought I was? 

We went over to an outdoor kitchen and prepared ten different bowls of foods. Each bowl had some lettuce, four tomatoes, and a small pile of deep-fried whole fish. :P After a while, a few old women, two blind guys, a child, and a woman with one arm came to get their food. 

The woman with one arm had been washing her clothes at the Shire River when a crocodile came up and bit her arm. Some nearby villagers came running to the rescue and either stabbed the crocodile or cut off the woman's arm with a Panga Knife.

At 2 PM, I headed over to the Hope Village Shop to help Tom with the shop. For two hours, Keiran and I stacked shelves with sugar, salt and soap and I helped the customers with their purchases. It was quite fun with Tom cracking jokes or Keiran and Tom showing each other their different dance moves.

I ate dinner at the house, and then Darren, Leila, Keiran, Brett and his wife, those two UK women, and a few village men got in the truck to go to the hospital to preach and sing the gospel.

Us men in the trunk and the women in the cab.

We arrived and started to sing and all the men and women joined in, clapping and singing. There was this horrible stench in the hospital and people with broken body parts or sleeping or burning up with some fever were lying in beds everywhere. But the ones that were awake joined in happily. Ganizany, the pastor, called me up two times to pray and tell my reason for coming to Malawi.

The Children's Room.

We sang and preached in all of the rooms. There is a Men's Room,  a Women's Room, the Childrens' Room, a Pregnant Women's Room, and a room for the women waiting for their child to be born. This newborn was having a hard time breathing, so they had to use a oxygen tank to help it breathe. Cute lil one.

We stayed there until eight, and then we rode back in  the back of the pick up.

The crowd in the pregnant woman section.

The whole day has been so serious, so I thought I would add this photo of me all Fish Eye Effected. I kinda look like a rabbit. XD

Fish Eye