College and Town life

 

Life in Bulima is very laid back as it is a rural town with not much going on, on Tuesday I went on an awesome walk up the mountain and for the first time in long time I felt like running again, the natural beauty is something else from the top off the hill. Live at the college has been a stop start affair purely because off the constant electricity cuts which can drive any normal person insane, this has not stopped me from planning my work and the power cuts gives me the opportunity to plan ahead for the library. I had my work permit stamped into my passport on Monday and are therefore now legal to work in Bulima, the only problem is that it expires on the 09/02(It was date stamped on Monday is valid for 3 months but is expires on the 09/02, all because it was 1st issued on the 29/11/09) which means I have to take a day off work and go into town which is a long journey there and back and is something I am not looking forward to.

This also means I have to pay another $120 which is not budgeted for, this is now the 2nd time where I will have to pay for something not on the budget, this is the norm in any country though, I have also met some German volunteers who volunteer at the local private school down the road from us, so it is nice to have fellow foreigners with me here in town, I am still hoping that I will be able to get hold off a camera to take some pics and put in on the site for people what life here in Bulima is all about. If I thought that work in the library was going to be a walk in the park, how mistaken I am, you will need someone here full time for 2 years to pull the library straight, please pray that the Lord will lay it on someone heart to volunteer here for at least 1 year. All in all I am enjoying my time here and I hope to make a real difference not only in the library but also in the lives of the people here.

I am hoping to install a new library system this weekend, this will mean that I will spend long hours in the library from now on, I just need to get permission from the college staff and get the students input then the hard work will begin, it will be easy to download all the books information from the internet and I am praying that we will have constant internet connection which will allow things to go smoothly, the library assistants I have here with me still need to learn about hard work and I am slowly working on them to get them to do things my way. Later today I will be printing some date stamps and get the Librarians to put it into the books a real sign for me then that we will be moving forward full steam. I have changed my phone number as the Vodacom network here is all most nonexistent, my new number is +2550682060971. Where I live is no tv which means by the time I leave Bulima I would have finished 4 books (3Bible Study reading and 1 Christian counseling book) which is a record for me. I try to make contact with people back home 1 a week so if there is a foreign number on your phone, it might just have been me trying to get hold off some friends...