tough day

so today was my first full official day at the children of blessing trust. however, kat (the teacher at the center) picked me up, and we had to drop a guy off at a place we were staying. this was my first time meeting kat and things went well. I'm very thank ful ill have her to drive me to/from each day. she gives a younger perspective on everything here in malawi, which is nice and it's good for me! on the drive the car made a *brrr ummmp, raaaa, taaaa* okay, im just making nonsense here as i write this, but it was some craaaazy noise, at this point, josh still isnt dropped off, so we all look and nothing seems wrong, so we keep driving and the car is making some wicked noises. so, we drop josh off, about to go to the garage to get the car fix, go drop something back off to josh and then back to the garage. we were at the garage for about 3 hours. so we got to the center around 1230ish. we only stayed a little bit, as monday afternoons we do home visits to visit children who havent been at the center for awhile and see where they are and how they are doing. kat asked me if i would be okay going to see a boy who comes to the center but gets abused...i agreed not knowing what i was getting myself into..we look the looooong hike to where this child lives, as children are following us and pointing and saying 'white' as there was 2 white girls and one malawian. oh yes, and asking for money :) they were lovely, you just want to hug them!  we then get to where this boy is, and im expecting him to walk out of the house, but then kat and the other lady walk to the side of the house, and there is this boy, against the wall, tied to a string, and this string is tied to a pole stuck into the ground. there are two bowls there for him to eat out of...(so..sorry to make this point, but it's like what you would do to a dog-- but worse). kat then tried to approach the child but the child yelled and screamed in what seemed like utter terror. this child is terrified. the parents do this as the child 'runs away'. as some of you know, i work with children with disabilities, and some of them in fact do run away, but doing this to them...you would never think of. so, this just killed me...but i also have to suck it up, and keep going. we are going to keep visiting this child every week and hopefully the child gets use to us, and then it'll be easier for the parents to take him to school. 

elections are tomorrow!! things are going to be interesting. everything is closed tomorrow so tomorrow should be fine, but come wednesday afternoon or thursday when the results are released thats when things could possibly get interesting, but we have a bigger god, who has his hand upon this election, and has a big plan bigger then we have for ourselves. so continue to pray!!

caio!