Drita e Botes’ blog

No day at Drita is ever the same,  some days are back to back with meetings and visits and other days, well, nothing seems to work out as planned. This is life in Albania but more specifically this is life in Shkoze, we just have to roll with it and deal with it other wise high blood pressure and tension gets the better of us.

This morning  my day was pretty well mapped out, I knew what was going to happen- or so I thought. The plan was to vist the Roma community with the Medical  Project Nurses.There is a 40 day old baby there, 'Sami' who we are very concerened about. A time was set for the meeting and I cycled up to help the nurses- mainly just carrying their bags and chatting to people. I think actually this is what ministry is, carrying bags and chatting to people. However as I cycled up the hill to Shkoze the nurses phoned to say thye had actually visitied the Roma community and hour earlier than planned so I needn't worry.

That gave me the morning free to get on with letter writing, emails and preparation work. We want to buy some new computers for the church, our current ones are very old and its a wonder that they still function at all. All their software is copied and corrupt but its very hard to get decent genuine software here in Tirana. One shop had Windows 7 copies before it had been released anywhere.

I had a meeting set up for 2  o clock with one of the Roma leaders but he just didn't come. We have a room full of blankets for the community and I was needing his help to divide up  equally the blankets for each of the homes there.

right now I have four lads using the old computers, the mangava ladies clearing up after a few hours card making, and the english course about to begin

So my day has been waiting for people who aren't coming, to come and catching up with long over due admin,
but a good day all the same

Graham