Well there’s a question! I’m here with SIM (Serving in Mission) , and my primary role is to be a missionary. I work at a Hospital in Jos as a Physiotherapist each morning, and in the afternoons I have been trying my hand at a few other things: I teach a discipleship class of primary school aged children in a care centre / orphanage in a nearby village, I have been going on outreach into some of the local brothels for the last couple of weeks, which I hope to continue, and I am also looking to start teaching English at another project in the city, which focuses on training widows in tailoring.
Other than that, just living life can sometimes feel like a full time occupation! A lot of energy goes into what used to be quick every day kind of tasks like buying food, and then of course there’s relationship building. This is so essential in Nigerian culture, but when I have a list of all the things that I feel I should be doing in my head, I sometimes have to remind myself of this.
You may have gathered from this little list that no day is ever the same! Today I came home to 200 doughnuts being made in my kitchen (not all to be eaten by us, I hasten to add), and a couple of weeks ago I sat on the roof of my friends car as we drove round a safari park.
I promise to tell you things in more detail soon, but just thought I should start by setting the scene.
Well done Fiona. Sounds challenging. What is you accommodation like? Who were the people making the 200 doughnuts? It sounds like you only work as a Physiotherapist for half the day
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