As most of you know by now, some of us got super sick Thursday night. I threw up six or so times throughout the night and felt absolutely miserable Friday morning. Unfortunately, we were traveling all day (as in two bus rides and two flights.) Praise the Lord our nausea went away before we flew and eventually my feverish feeling dissipated with some fantastic meds. Not much of an appetite now but feeling so much better. Kayla and I are very grateful for the prayers and have learned that being sick in such close quarters = great bonding. Poor Kelly though! 

Side note: we had an Earthquake drill in the airport and my instinct was to stop, drop, and roll… Georgia has not prepared me.

We are finally in Trujillo with our Peruvian family! The university greeted us when we got here with smiles and gifts (school bags with our books and buttons, ect.) And to our surprise, we were filmed for a reality show about the university! Even though I looked my absolute worst after begin sick, it was so fun!

Group by group, we were dropped off at our host homes. It was so fun to see everyone meet their family! It seems as though they were just as excited and nervous as we were. We were last to get dropped off. Kayla, Henssey, and I are all living together. The dad and THREE KIDS greeted us at the door. :) To make it even more perfect, they have a bull mastiff pup! The mom is so sweet and smiles all the time. The dad is a former chef (yay!) and the kids are 5, 9, and 11 (2 girls and a little boy). The dogs name means “peach” in Japanese which I thought was perfect since we are from Georgia!

This morning we had breakfast a family and headed to the market. Market=Peruvian walmart. We also gave the family our thank-you-gift which was a UGA football, two coca-cola glasses, and red, white, and blue crazy straws which were perfect for the kids. They used them right away! After all, kids are kids everywhere. :)

In other words, we LOVE LOVE LOVE our family! We start shadowing and classes on Monday morning. The hospital will be from 8am-12pm and classes will be from 3pm-6/7pm. Lots of work and learning ahead but so excited! Tonight we are having our welcoming dinner.

And lastly, Kayla and I found this quote in the book Circle Maker at the perfect time and wanted to share:

“The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying. When imagination is sacrificed on the altar of logic, God is robbed of the glory that rightfully belongs to Him. In fact, the death of a dream is often a subtle form of idolatry. We lose faith in the God who gave us this big dream and settle for the small dream that we can accomplish without His help. We go after dreams that don’t require divine intervention. We go after dreams that don’t require prayer. And the God who is able to do immeasurably more than all our right brain can imagine is supplanted by a god- lowercase g- who fits within the logical constraints of our left brain. Nothing honors God more than a big dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish.”

On that note, hasta leugo!

H