Five days here and I feel like I’ve already been hear a month. I’ve settled right into everything and I absolutely love it. I’m living in a guest house for five dollars a night, a twenty minute bike ride from the shelter. Doing anything on the roads here is super risky…you’re constantly watching out for cars, motos, bikes, pedestrians, people selling stuff from their carts. People follow traffic laws depending on how they feel that day, sometimes driving in the wrong direction all the way down the road. I’m getting used to the madness and pretty soon, I hope to master the whole wrong direction thing. I’ve learned all the kids names at the shelter and have fallen in love with every single one of the. I’ve been given the special task of working with one child in particular. I’m going to call her S for the sake of identity protection. All the kids her are former garbage pickers who lived by the local dump, but S is a former street kid, which is a completely different profile. She’s only seven years old, but she grew up as the leader of her own little gang. She never had to listen to directions, be disciplined, study, follow a schedule, or anything else that comes with living at the shelter. She’s made a lot of improvements after less than a year of being here, but she’s still very difficult to work with. S doesn’t like to learn. She doesn’t like to feel behind the rest of the students so if she doesn’t understand, she gives up. When you try to get her to focus, she throws tantrums and tries to manipulate. Please pray for her, and pray for me as I’ll be spending a lot of time working with her during my time here. Please pray that God would use me to love on her and have patience with her. I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to attend a church here with one of my coworkers, and I’m so excited about that! I’ve been praying for a church to attend while I’m here. Praise God!