A Time to Throw Away

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

Ecclesiastes 3:1-6

This past weekend was our school's first all staff work days. This coming June we are going to be moving the school to a new campus. In preparation for that big event they've set aside weekends this semester designated for us to spending sorting, organizing, packing, etc. All this in hopes to alleviate stress and chaos when the actual event comes in June. This past weekend's theme was purge. We worked friday afternoon (the student's left at noon) and saturday sorting through and getting rid of tons of old stuff. I was in charge of collecting, organizing, and inventorying all of the math manipulatives for elementary and secondary. It was quite a job and still isn't totally done yet. Continue to pray for all the finances to come in for the building project that is underway. Also, pray for positive attitudes of the staff, as getting ready for the move will take a lot of extra energy and time (and saturdays) in the coming months.

In other news, last weekend I was really, really sick. It had come time to de-worm myself. (Twice a year, everyone who lives here has to take de-worming medicine to get rid of all the worms that they contract and that begin to grow inside their stomachs.) However, I didn't follow the proper directions and took the medicine on an empty stomach (problem #1) and took enough for someone who weights 70 kg (problem #2), along with that some friends and I ate in a whole in the wall place for dinner that night and I had some avocado juice (which I would not recommend). The combination of those things and probably some other unseen factors and I wound up the sickest I've been since I got here, maybe even the sickest I've ever been in my life. I was up all night Saturday night, then all day Sunday and all day Monday I could barely move. I definitely couldn't eat anything and when I tried it didn't stay in me for very long. By Tuesday morning I was ready to go back to work, but was really weak from not having anything in my stomach for the past 2 1/2 days. The walk to school alone just about did me in, but from there I had a pretty easy day as I gave tests in most of my classes. Thankfully, I'm feeling much better now. Although, I have recently come down with a cold, so I would still appreciate prayers for health.