Welcome to our humble abode here in Choma! We have been here for approximately a month now even though we travel frequently to different places. This has been a pretty great place to live. I wouldn't necessarily ever choose to live with 10 girls in 1 big bedroom again in my life for 3 months but I will say it has been a time to help me learn patience as well as learn to be super thankful for the body of believers I have found in my teammates. I used to think I wished I had a ton of sisters to share my bedroom with and stuff like my brothers always did when we were younger but I think I retract that thought. Living with this many people isn't exactly my favorite thing to do. We each get one bunk bed set -- my dress is the bottom bunk of my bed and my "bedroom" is the top bunk which feels kind of like a room because of the ever imposing mosquito net.
I figured we've been living here long enough maybe you would like to see what my home away from home looks like :).
Below is the wonderful 10 person room -- we have a bathroom connected to our room which provides enough space for all of us to get ready in the mornings. There is also a closet area where we hold a lot of our personal stuff.
Below is our foyer area. It serves many purposes as most things do here in Zambia...the Guest House director's office, a study room, skype location, work out room..pretty much anything you can think of.
This is our living room/dining room.
Dining room on the other side of the couches.
Well below is the interesting kitchen here at the Guest House. What most of you wouldn't want to know is that we've had to go in and clean often after the staff leaves so that cockroaches do not infest EVERYTHING in the kitchen. I choose to go in there as little as possible because there are always cockroaches, ants, and other unfriendly critters roaming around on the counters, in the drawers, and nowhere else I'd want to look. But during the daytime its not as scary. This picture was taking on the night of our Pizza Party for the staff. We made homemade pizza and invited the staff over to enjoy a night being served instead of always serving.
This is the World Hope Guest House where we sleep, eat, and hang out! We spend a lot of time out on the veranda most days. It is a beautiful location with lots of landscaping.
This is the administration building where all of the World Hope staff has offices and where we take our classes. It is so nice to not have to sit through classes in the scorching heat because our classroom is air conditioned! It's the little things!!
This is the road when you turn out to the left out of the compound. About a quarter mile down there is tarmac. Most of us go on runs about 5 days a week so we run this route alot!
This is the view from the road towards our compound. The white concrete wall in the back left corner of this photo is the fence to our compound.
That is all for now. I've had quite a week at Macha Hospital on Monday and today but I plan to write another post about it tomorrow. Lots of tough stuff to see but I am reminded that God is sovereign and He hold's each child, man, woman in the palm of His hand.
~Dana
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