Thursday, February 12, 2009

what I've been doing this week

Tuesday through Friday:
Wake up at 6:00, shower?, dress, eat, the bus is here to pick us up already? -- run!, look out the window as the city passes by – from the north to the city center, drop off workers at the school, arrive in the Santa Fe neighborhood, get off the bus at the drop in center, help make breakfast, drink coffee, kids arrive!, greetings, prayer, serve breakfast, stay in your seat!, eat your food!, eat it all!, sing, lessons, a million visits to the bathroom with kids, crowd control, helping with lessons, snack, crowd control, another lesson or maybe game time, crowd control crowd control crowd control, let’s go to the park!, pushing kids on the swing, crowd control, helping kids across the monkey bars, don’t hit each other!, don’t play with trash!, stay on the blacktop!, curing hurts, it’s so-and-so’s turn on the swing!, go down the slide, not up!, time for lunch (finally)!, wash up, prayer, serve food, eat food, force feed small children, make sure everyone eats everything, lesson or play time, games, is it time to go yet? no?, bathroom visits, playtime, it’s so-and-so’s turn with this!, share the blocks!, time to go? okay, clean up!, does everyone have everything?, get on the bus with kids, go south to drop of some kids, ride about an hour back across the city, finally we’re back at the house!!, eat, hang out, play and talk, eat, hang out, shower?, talk, read, SLEEP.

3 comments:

Leah said...

it all sounds so exciting! i like the "force feed small children" part. sounds like you're making quite an impact :)

TheNewsCruise said...

hey gee!
i'm glad to see you are staying busy!busy!busy!
do you miss me? cuz it's thursday and i drank my coffee alone! waahhh...
So I'll be in Costa Rica the 1st through the 9th of August and plan on traveling afterwards. Thats about as much as I know so far.
Anyways, hope all is well on your end!
-Meeg

Emerly Sue said...

CROWD CONTROL. I love you Emily. I am praying for you. I am praying that as your heart is broken it will be healed in a way that will not allow you to ever be the same.