A trip to Town

Today school started in Addis for all the kids who will be "homeschooled" in our mission this year. But because we are in hawassa we won't have students till next week, so we've been getting the school room ready and started preparing lessons. Today for elsample I make a reading chart so we can track how many pages the kids read throughout the year. Reminded me a lot of my hopac days and the different reading contests we had there.

After lunch we decided to go into town to shop for groceries. We took a bajaj, those of who've been to Tanzania will know what they are. For the rest of you: a bajaj is a three wheeled vehicle where there's room for two (if you want to sit comfortably, otherwise lots more!) passengers and a driver. Anyway, we took the bajaj into town and went to the vegetable store which was empty except for some green tomatoes and cabbages. Apparently it's not vegetable season right now! We did get most of the other items on our list though at another small store. There are lots and lots of small shops here, many focus on one thing: vegetables, clothes, shoes, or kitchen equipment. Some simply sell soda and gum. I'm excited to spend more time looking at all these little shops. 

It's been really fun to see what you can and can't get in hawassa. Generally I've been very impressed and I can't wait to get my own kitchen set up and start baking cakes! I've already gotten a kickstart in Kari's kitchen though. Hopefully we'll be able to move into our house on Saturday, but we'll see, it's not at if things have completely according to plan up till now, so I wouldn't be surprised if things change. I think it's a really valuable lesson for me to learn to find my peace in God, and not in being able to plan ahead or even do the job I was meant to do! I really do feel like I've been carried through this whole thing though, it hasn't been easy to come to a new country knowing no-one, but God has I've been so blessed to have wonderful people around me and a God who bigger than of and my problems! 3