Wow! So much has happened in the last two days and i didn't blog last night so be prepared for a long post tonight! Yesterday morning I went to the last eye screening.  Basically it's when they do an initial screen of the patients for eye related things to see if we can help them.  We only had 9 surgery spots open and over 150 people vying for the spots.  The way the screening works is that everyone lines up in a line and they get a prescreening to see if they qualify for the screening.  In order to qualify you have to have two cataracts.  if you qualify you go into the "yes" line and if you don't you go into the "no" line.  I was in charge of guiding the no line to the gate and saying goodbye.  It was a really depressing job. Most of them don't speak very good English and when they realize your leading them to the gate they are so sad.

This is Kissy Hospital where the eye screening was held.  This complex has a church, school and hospital in it.

The line of people waiting for the prescreening

On our way back from the screening we ran into this MASSIVE crowd of people who were waiting for the dental screening.

We went to the hope center last night and did a puppet show for the kids of Shakira's Waka Waka.  They loved it! It kind of turned the evening into a performance time and this volunteer got up and did a couple of magic tricks for the kids.

You can't really see it but this little girl has a cleft pallet

 Today I got to go to the Cheshire Home.  It's a Christian home for people with polio.  They also have a school for kids.  It was such a cool experience!  A lady named Tiffany Bergman takes a group of people there every week.  So the kids all know Tiffany.  She teaches a bible lesson and then brings games and crafts for the kids.  Today she taught on the breast plate of righteousness.  Jenny, Ashley and I did a puppet skit about the breast plate of righteousness and right in the middle of it it started pouring rain...welcome to Africa! lol.  So we moved inside to the kids classroom.

The classroom

The Belgium beauty queen(in the yellow head scarf) visited the ship today and also came with us to the Cheshire home.   The craft today was making breast plates of righteousness and writing/drawing pictures of what the plate protected you from.  This is Tatiana helping one of the kids.

proudly showing off her  isolation gown turned breast plate of righteousness

my favorite part of the day!!! There was this adorable baby named Isha (eye-sha) .  She's three months old and i pretty much just held her most of the time we were there.

Baby Isha!!!! Isn't she beautiful!

playing Janga with Samantha, Lucia and Thomas

Tiffany

Upon return to the ship we found out that someone ( a local) had driven a fork lift into the area between the ship and the dock.  We went up to deck 7 and spent the next hour and a half watching them try unsuccessfully to retrieve the fork lift.

So folks, that is the news for the day.  Some people have asked how my stomach is doing.  It's great! thank you so much for all the prayers.  I think that i'm getting a cold or something but stomach wise i'm doing quite well.  I miss you all.  Thank you to Meaghan Ward, Ann Wolfe, Monica Willard and Drew Woolley for all your wonderful emails and comments.  I love hearing from you all!