a weekend of Honeys

so we spent the weekend with a family of Honeys. (as in their surname is Honey...gettit?) a girl who just finished a placement at red cross invited us to stay for the weekend, and it was so nice to get a bit further away from mowbray and the hospital. we stayed in edgemead which is a northern (?) suburb of cape town. here we ate homemade pizza, watched bad movies, visited the largest shopping mall in the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (o yes!), saw pirates 3 in cinema, ate some more and strolled along the beach looking very windswept indeed. we also went to church (st marks methodist) which was lovely and was all good stuff.

the guys sermon (it wasn't the minister, it was someone younger as it wasa youth service) was very easy to follow so here's the gist of it:

1. don't always be asking "where is God", cos we know he's everywhere, isn't he? you gotta appreciate the stuff that God is clearly visible in instead of just focussing on complaining about when we can't "see" God.
2. when you do come across these places of darkness (which inevitably we will) you must pray for them. how can we expect anything to change if we don't pray about it?
3. Jesus says "YOU are the light of the world" so pretty much, you gotta get out into the darkness. how can you light up something thats already fully lit? !

obviously he used more eloquent phrases but thats pretty much what he was saying.

today was hard, i had a patient who was "anxious" and cried lots. he didnt' want to do what he needed to do so when i tried to make him participate he did not like it. and as i don't speak afrikaans, i couldn't really communicate so well with him. it was good in some ways though that i dont speaka da language as they later told me he was swearing somethin shockin at me.

i enjoy physio in the operating room where patients are sedated and compliant.

just jesting. sort of.