Two Weeks In…
Iwe! (phonetically E-way meaning Hey!) So this weekend was crazy with American Independence and Malawi Independence celebrations, two short term terms arriving totaling of 60 additional people moving the intern girls from our dorm to a slumber party setting in our leaders living room, four of our girl interns getting extremely sick not eating for four days or having 102 fevers, and my own emotional roller coaster.
Last Sunday the four of us girls from Flood got to go to Flood Malawi but this Sunday we got to go with the whole intern team and take along a short-term teacher group. It is amazing the energy and passion that is Flood San Diego mixed with the culture of Malawi to be somewhere that I feel so at home.
As far as in the village of Mgwayi where we spend about three fourths of our time, an extended family of children have stolen my heart. Where as some of the interns are feeling so bad for these children who are poor and malnutritioned in living conditions that are surreal, the joy on these kids faces and that they express to us makes me so happy for these children. There is Dorlica, Vanessa, Manis, and Esama.
Esama a while ago was pushed in a fire by a friend playing around as kids and burnt all down her mid-back to her left leg. Now it looks infected with a centimeter thick scab and it breaks my heart cause from day one she was by my side and children were pointing it out to get my away from her and adults were showing me as well after I had seen it a million times. How degrading as a 8 year old to have your peers lifting up your dress when you don’t have underwear. I told our leader and we got a COTN national staff member notified, so hopefully since she is sponsor they can get her to a hospital to be scraped. Prayer for Esama that it does get help and that there after it is properly cared for would be appreciated. She doesn’t seem in pain but it can’t be good and I think it has caused emotion issues of being different.
Posted by Sarah Prieto (http://web.mac.com/sarahpea)