It’s hard to believe that 2 weeks of Orientation have now passed and I am staring down the barrel of week 3 already!  This past week has just flown!  And again has been a mixture of so many experiences/impacts/emotions.  For this week I thought I would share with you some of the Highs and Lows of the week: HIGHS Relationship Building in Welverdiend: On Monday we spent the day in a community called Welverdiend (where we will spend 3 nights sleeping out in at the end of this week for our community stay – more on this later).  It was

Here we are at the end of the first week of orientation already, having been in Africa now for just over a week.  I find myself torn with this blog – between providing enough information about what I have been doing day to day so you know more about what my life now looks like; and between sharing some of the deeper thoughts and more internal struggles that I have been wrestling with.  So I will attempt here to give you an insight into both. Our days have been jammed packed for orientation.  Most mornings start with an 8am meeting