Okay, okay, I think I am officially homesick...I have been
here for 2 ½ months, but it seems like 2 ½ years!(okay maybe not that long, but
still)...the whole medical emergency involving my dad, made me realize how far
away from home I really am, and how much I really do miss my family. Then
there was a scary typhoon, a twister in the city right next to me...and this is only the beginning of rainy/typhoon/stormy season here in the
Philippines. When I wake up in the morning to my clothes still wet from being
washed the day before, a cockroach in the middle of the bathroom and a cold
shower with a worm crawling out of the crack in the tiled wall, I just want to
drop everything and catch the next plane outta here! Living in a third world
country is like camping 24/7 and my family knows just how much I enjoy camping,
not! LOL! But then when I am sitting around the table with the Filipino midwives
eating original Filipino food right
after a wonderful birth, or when I am with the labouring women being able to give
them love that most have never received in their entire life, or when my hands
touch the baby’s head as it is being born...those are the moments I cherish,
that’s when I think for a second I could live here my entire life...but then it’s
gone in a flash, when I am here in the clinic alone lying in my bed at night, I
am counting down the days I have left till I come home. Mom, Dave, Dad, Kelly, Darby,
Colten, Dayten, Kacie, Jason, Jeremy, Brandon, Shannon, Jenna, Jessica, G-ma, G-pa, all my sister in-laws, uncles, aunts, and nieces and
nephews (did I mention I have a big family) I miss you guys so much! 171 more
days till I come home...I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...
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| This birth was so fast, my preceptor didn't make in time... |
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| Brand new mommy and baby |
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| "Rain, rain go away, come again another day" |
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| Look how safe I am in this area, the water level everywhere else were waist to head high! |
