What an overwhelming day! I'm not sure what happened to me today, but for some reason I just was struck with frustration and exhaustion. While my new host family is amazing, its been hard settling into a new home, and its been especially challenging knowing that I'll be leaving them to go to Nicaragua in a few days. This week is also full of things to do, so I think it was just trying to think about too much instead of just relaxing and letting things happen.
I got up early to stop at an e-cafe this morning to send some emails and look up some final details for my thesis paper before our weekly worship service at LASP. When I got there at 8 the e-cafe wasn't open, so I went to LASP and worked on some reading for tomorrow. About an hour later I went back and used the computer for a while, but I kind of rushed in order to get back to LASP for worship. When I got back to LASP I found out worship was canceled because the leaders were all working on their presentations, so I read some more.
After lunch we headed over to ICADS to give our presentations. I ended up not making a poster because our teacher told us yesterday we could just write on the white boards if we wanted to. Well, when I went to give my presentation the two teachers in the audience were not at all excited about the whiteboard thing, so I just gave the presentation without it. I think the presentation went fine, but I'm a little nervous about my grade.
Because we got done at ICADS so early, a group of us went into downtown San Jose to go to an artisan's market and buy some stuff for Nicaragua. That was a lot of fun, and we found some really great stuff at the market. By the time we were done there it was almost 4:30 and I was needing to get home, so Haleigh and I searched for a bus (which took quite a while) and made our way towards El Carmen (our part of San Jose). Our bus happened to stop at Andrey's school just as he was getting out, so it was fun to take the bus home with him.
When we got home mami was at a PTA-like meeting, so it was just the four of us kids, and it was kind of fun to just chill for a while. I started my homework after a bit and I've been working on stuff all evening. It seems like I've been consistently underestimating my homework load, and I'm looking forward to this weekend when all of it will just be done. My prayers for strength and patience are unending...I can't get through a single moment here without God's grace and presence, and I long to just rest in Him.
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