A New Day...

As promised I wake up ready to tackle the task at hand… all of them. While falling asleep last night, it dawns on me... before I left Detroit, I had been working for my old architecture firm in Chicago via remote access. Maybe I can get my remote access to work here?! I have to use my PC laptop for this and it doesn’t get a very good wireless signal here at the house. I call Nunu and ask him if he could take me to this place that I’m told has good wifi. I tell him we can also talk about what we need to do here in Maputo and I could also really go for a coke.

When he arrives we are asked to run an errand to go get some painkillers (apparently similar to Tylenol with Codeine, but purchased over the counter). We go to 2 Pharmacies and are told they don’t have it. I feel bad as the person who has requested this is in a lot of pain. I ask if there are any hospitals or clinics close and so we head to a clinic. At the clinic they said no they don’t have this, but the man points to his left and tells us to look at a Pharmacy just up the road. We walk more. We go in, the man says no, but points to his left and tells us the Pharmacy just up the road should have it. We walk more. We go in, the man says no, but points to his left and tells us the Pharmacy just up the road should have it. This repeats 3 more times! What I found crazy is that they all pointed to the left… even if the place to the right would have been closer.

As we walk into the 6^th or 7^th place I say this is the last one. We have walked in the opposite direction of the place with internet, and I feel like we have done all that we can. So we start going to the internet place. My heart sinks, a little as we walk back past so many of the Pharmacies we had just gone into.

We arrive at the internet exhausted. Nunu has been pretty quiet today, he is the one processing now. We get our cokes and I try jumping on to the remote access site. I get on for a second but then my internet goes out. I try not to make a big deal. We have been walking for at least 2 hours now and we have a 30 or so minute walk home.

So instead we sit back enjoy our ice-cold cokes, I even pour a little into a glass and drink it with ice. We get a little snack and discuss what we need to be doing and how long it might take.

The walk home doesn’t really seam that bad. The air has cooled off and compared to all the walking we did earlier, it’s nothing!

At dinner, the sisters ask if anyone could watch the house so that they can go to church. I volunteer. I was planning to watch a podcast, so I said I could just bring my laptop down in the morning while they were gone.

I go to bed feeling so much better than the night before. Sure I’d rather be on a bus to Pemba, but I find peace knowing that the Lord has laid these steps out before me. All I want to do is be where I’m needed. I’ll see how the next few days go and if I need to fly to Pemba alone, then that is what I will do.