By morning I'm diggin' up the garden and planting new seeds...
...and by afternoon, I'm negotiating building contracts.
Sadly, the decisions that one makes, goes with the other...and time is ticking on what is going to come next.
I have had incredible things that have taken me by surprise, helping me to formulate the next stages of Project Rx and my life.
The happenings of what have been going on are as follows:
1) I have acquired a job with JHI Real Estate, where they have promised a flexible schedule for me to work around the Project. It's incredibly interesting working on both sides of international development. I see two tremendously different lenses of servitude and relational interactions. In one instance I am debating the amount of spacing between onions and filling up watering cans via pulling up a bucket of water by a rope. In another instance, I am negotiating million dollar properties with investors who have built up Mozambique to what it is today.
Thus far, I've been working two jobs, by going to the farm in the morning and working on acquiring clients in the real estate field by afternoon and evening. All other time not used to do real estate is dedicated to continuing the translating and research for the Project Rx, Mozambique Gardening Guide.
This experience is leading me further down the path of a sort of business initiative, but only God knows what will come next.
2) I will begin teaching health education classes to groups of children on Sunday afternoons, starting with a lesson in teeth brushing, where every student will get to take home some toothpaste and a toothbrush. :D
3) As time gets closer and closer to come to an end, I'm seeking out more opportunities to spend time with those who have made my Africa experience so incredibly amazing. I will be planning a few more trips and taking more time to see the places that I must before I move onto the next.
4) I've been soul-searching for answers to a new job. I realize that I am suffering working alone on this project and am looking for a place to learn something new and grow with all of the incredible experiences I've gained. Johannesburg has been calling me. I've applied with Google for a Policy Manager position -- I'm leaving it up to the fate of the employment gods to give me a response. (If only life were easy...)
If you have advice for the Project or know someone who does, I'm open to all interpretations of the current state of affairs and hope to hear from all those involved. The continued meditation on the current state of affairs has kept me hopeful, (and yet perplexed). I'm staying afloat on hope. If only Obama could see me in Mozambique...
What else? Well, I miss home, I miss my family and am yet so divinely attached to my current state of affairs. They change by the minute, it seems, only enough to make me laugh and smile about where my life is leading.
[This is the part where I think Project Rx has done more for me than anyone else... sigh.]
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