Thursday, October 18, 2007

Today everyone has a very full agenda, getting the house ready for the boys, going to the prison and the brothel, and trying to get most of the patients discharged and out of recovery. I decided to stay on campus and go to the boy’s house and help get that ready. First I had to go to Sonel’s aunt’s house to get his bed frame and mattress. I recruited Wayne and Sinclair to go with me and papa Daniel and the four of us carried the two pieces back to the mission. It was really hot today and not fun to start the day off with that kind of work, but we got it done and then started to get ready to go see the house. This house was amazing, it was 2 rooms were big enough to house at least 6 beds and there was a 3rd small room where we are hoping to be able to build shelves for their personal affects. The location of this house is quite perfect of the people that are living there. It is like this little village, there are three houses and the community seemed to be really excited about the boys coming to live with them. After we checked the place out and decided what we needed to make it livable, we headed back to the mission and got everything around so that we could get most of it done before lunch. I helped them take everything to the house AND GOT TO DRIVE THE GATOR, but did not stay because I almost killed myself and just about took off Erin’s foot. So instead of going to the prison and the brothel I took over in the recovery room for one of the ladies so that she could go, so I spent the day being the assistant and falling asleep with the patients. They got back from the prison/brothel trip around 330 and a few of them said that they were glad they went but felt very uneasy at the brothel. At 430 I went to the recovery room to get Sonel ready to go to a concert that Erin was putting on at the church with her music class. We headed over there at about 5 and watched them get ready and practice their songs. The concert was really good, and I was glad to see that pretty much everyone went to support the children that worked really hard to learn to play these instruments. After the concert and dinner, we all got to relax because the surgery team was done, there was nothing major going on in recovery and it was Thursday and everyone was tired. While we were chillin in the dining hall I found out that I did not have to work the overnight shift in recovery because there were no mission critical patients and the overnight nurse could handle it. I was way super excited as was Sinclair and took the chance to go to bed earlier than I usually do. At around 11 it was pretty quiet around and I decided it was time for bed. Peace.