WHAT A WEEK !

As I sit down to rest a bit on this Sunday evening to think about what to blog about I am realizing this has been quite the week. I could say it has been one very difficult week, but that would mostly define the end of the week and not give the whole picture. The dilemma is this blog could become a book if I write about everything, but if I write about only one thing it doesn't give the full picture of my week. The goal will be to give you little glimpses into this week.
First of all the past few weeks my legs have been starting to bother me more and more. They started to just bother me a little, when I was running, but the last week or so they have progressed to bothering me more and more. I have been experiencing a lot of tightness in my legs and sharp pains in my right leg. I realized that I needed to either stop running altogether or start doing more walking with my running (which I am not a big fan of walking). For about two weeks now I have been running for about 20 minutes and then walking for 30 minutes or so. I have found this time to be an awesome time of praying for others and just enjoying God's creation. Well without going into to much detail with it really felt this past week that it was just a type of spiritual attack against me, because running here has been such an outlet for me. I was talking about it with a friend and said funny how I am able to experience God even in a closer way now that I am walking and able to focus more on Him, guess the devil didn't win that battle. I walked home from school that night and didn't have a lot of time before it was dark and was thinking man it would really be nice to just run tonight and not have pain. Well I was blessed to start running that night and realize that my legs felt amazing. I was able to run longer than I had in awhile. As I was out running I ran up on one of my housemates, and to make a long story short we were talking later about the whole story, and she said cool thing is as you ran up behind me I was praying that your legs would feel better to be able to run :) Love how God so clearly shows up in things like this. No, my legs are not completely better, but I am continuing to love spending time with God as I walk and do some running.
The next interesting part of my week was traveling to Zanzibar for a day as a part of my job. I am sure not many people can say they get to travel to an island for a day as a part of their job. The secondary principal, sports coordinator, and myself left at 5:15 a.m. to travel downtown to catch a ferry on Friday (of course we got some breakfast first). We took the 7:00 a.m. ferry over and got there around 9:00 a.m. We then traveled a little outside of town to visit a small international school. The purpose of the trip was to meet with the principal and discuss some ways our school might be able to do some sports with and against the school. The principal there really wants to try to give his kids some more opportunities since it is such a small school. It was fun seeing a different school in action and coming up with some ideas of what we could do. We then traveled back to the ferry and left on the 12:30 p.m. ferry (which left at 1:00). We got back to Dar around 3:15 p.m. and then had to fight the evening traffic back to school. We got back around 5:15 p.m. I was super exhausted and wouldn't suggest making a day trip to Zanzibar something on your list of things to do, but it was worth it to make some contacts with the school.
Then yesterday more fun was planned, but at about noon yesterday I decided that two full days of activities for my weekend is too much for me here. I was down right exhausted, between not getting a lot of sleep and being in the sun I was done. At any rate I took a trip to downtown Dar with a group of teachers from school. It was great, because I got to see some of the people that I worked with two summers ago when I came to Dar. We talked with the group that runs Youth In Dar and they took us around to some temples downtown after talking about what they do here in Dar. We then had Indian food for lunch and did some shopping for Indian clothing. It was a little weird to be around some of the places I was before, but being there this time as a person who lives here. At some point yesterday, not really sure when I unfortunately lost my phone, which meant that the day that I had planned to relax and recover from Friday and Saturday was going to have to become a day that I looked for a new phone. After much frustration with myself over losing the phone, feeling lost without a phone (not sure how we ever made it without cell phones :), and overall just feeling down, I was able to get a phone today, which is a praise!
So that was my week! I am praying that I somehow overnight feel rejuvenated and ready to go, because I am feeling worn out and a bit beaten down tonight.