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Name: Nicole
Interests: Bubble blowing, a crisp set of developed photos, riding my cherry bike in the fall, seeing the perfect picture and actually having my camera, the fireplace when it's freezing outside, freshly printed papers, creek walking, singing in the shower, looking at old photographs, getting letters, getting PACKAGES!, walking in the rain in Rome, watching old movies, staying up late, sleeping late, freshly sharpened pencils, early morning bike rides, hair ribbons, hugging clothes straight from the dryer, wearing clothes straight from the dryer, making sand castles, smashing sand castles, eating cookie doe, eating cookies, flips flops in the snow, coming in from the cold, funny surveys, making pie, eating pie, serving pie, making up new laughs (not by myself of course), watching people paint, glazing in ceramics, using the wheel in ceramics, jumping on a trampoline, bringing blankets to school, bargaining with peddlers, little german farm ladies (here, not in stuttgart), going into Prada and buyi
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
5/13/2004
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| There's a delightfully huge puddle right outside my front door. It leaves me no option but to jump right in it each time I leave. Today couldn't have been a better sleep in day since it's been pouring since 3 o'clock last night and my street is flooded. I hope it'll let up in a couple hours so that I don't have to trudge to class in this downpour.
It's still so warm though and all these sheets of rain only serve to dampen all the noise and make me feel like I'm cuddled up behind my own waterfall, safe and removed from the stress of finals week. | | |
| Hi all! sorry for the terribly long absence from xanga. I've been facebooking because it's just been so much more convenient.
I'm in Hilo now after 7 months of skipping across the globe, and I'm searching searching searching for a job.
Hopefully by the time I update again (which may regretfully be in another long stretch) I'll have finally been hired by that lucky company.
Blessings!
-Nicole | | |
| It rained last night and the power went, off...again. It happened in the middle of a conversation and it doesn't even faze me anymore. haha. But it smelled so good.
Changes are happening. I'll be turning into a little mother of three little tots. None of them older then 2 or 3. the youngest being a little more than a year. THey'll be staying in my room when Liz leaves and I'll be taking care of them.
It will be...interesting...hehe. But I already love all three of them, so no problem in having to get to know who they are, hey?
just a quick shout out. Thanks to you guys who have been praying for me.
God bless!
Nic | | |
| liz says hi, her internet sucks and we have three minutes to say this. Im taking care of 8 orphaned boys from 2 to 8 years old. One is a new arrival from yesterday. It's routine sometimes and you forget that these children have no parents. Like Liz was saying the other day, "Do you realize that we're their 'primary caregiver'". I LOVE these children.
things are going well.
I love you all.
Life is good, new blessings, new challenges... | | |
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San Bonani!! Njoni?
Im in the city of Manzini
right now at an internet café. Its about
twenty minutes away from new hope center.
A couple of days ago we had a cold front move in. The sky here is so big you see the weather
moving in from miles away. There is snow
all along the borders of Swaziland but it hasn’t snowed in Swaziland for three
years, and then only in Mbembe, its about 6 or 7 thousand feet above sea level
Yesterday Liz and I went into mataspha while Emmanuel ( a
big brother) was running errands but the café was full.
The kids really just need to trust me. And its been great to see how that has been
developing. Im in charge of 7 little
boys and I have to clothe, bathe etc. the youngest. Its been so encouraging to see how they
really warm up to you. Seth, the oldest
of the youngest, asked me to pray for him last night because he was having bad
and scary thoughts while he was trying to fall asleep. I prayed and then told him to pray whenever
he was scared. He also asked me to read
him some of the bible to him. This from
the boy who barely acknowledged me when I first got here. And Joseph, he pees his bed a lot so he told
me last night that “you must prrray for me every day so I don’t peepee.”
A couple days ago the lights went out in the little boys ,
girls as well as our room so it was so stressfull. I almost cried at one point. But theres good days and bad days…and Im
learning how the system runs here. Today
we went on a hike to the top of Bethany
mountain with a bunch of the kids.
Theyre all so different.
I also love how theyre willing to love and have their hearts
broken again. We just had a team come
through for about a week and when they left so many of the kids were just
WAILING.
They just want to be loved.
Its hard sometimes though to realize that as much as you and everyone
trys to love the kids, it just isn’t enough, it wont equal two parents loving
on them individually.
I could use some prayer for wisdom in disciplining the
kids. There is a big barrier with some
of them since the just don’t understand English very well. Things work a lot through interpreters here
and Im trying to learn the language as fast as I can.
Also that my body would just stay healthy.
also Swaziland is a country that in ten years time, the average age of
death will be thirty. There is a large remnant of people who are
fasting and praying for their country. Every friday at a church
nearby, 7 thousand people come together to pray the whole night
through. For a small church in a country of about one million, this is
amazing. Swaziland is desperate for prayer and intercession.
Anyway, I don’t have
much more time. Its getting better and
God is showing me his purpose.
I love love love you
-Nicole
Swaziland
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