Looks good on the outside.....stinky on the inside

This past weekend we bought 20 eggs to bake bread as a gift for neighbors.  Now I have learned from past experience here to make sure that you check your eggs before starting any recipe since the eggs here are sold in the open market where the sun beats down on them for hours and many will be spoiled.  All of the eggs I purchased looked great on the outside except one.  I opened that one first and is was foul smelling and black inside.  Now when we open any eggs we never crack them right into the other ingredients because we don’t’ know if they will be good or not…..so I began cracking the other 19 eggs, one at a time and by the end, I had only 5 that were edible. 

Isn’t this the way with many things in life…..looks great from the outside and yet, once committed to, once engaging in the activity or buying into the thought or belief, we find that really it is rotten and stinky……and impossible to remove from our lives without having to throw a lot out and start over.  It is better to just test the new shiny thing before and then, if it is really good throughout, add it to what we are making in our lives.

It is interesting that the English classes are weeding out those that are serious about learning and those that aren’t.  Several of the students are a more proficient level and are frustrated at the basic level of the classes but the majority of the students are at this level and so we work there.  I am finding this very enjoyable and fulfilling.  Isn’t it interesting that we can have a plan…..a good plan…..and yet live in the between…..that place beyond the dream and yet not having the dream areality of life……and I just don’t want to spend my time here waiting for something to happen…..but instead do what is put before me to do today……and the drivers were so persistent in their requests for language study……how can you say no?  The other really pleasing part is to hear the families that live here talking about working with their driver to help with the practicing of what they are learning.  I think it is a benefit to us all.

Today is a holiday……tomorrow too…..so we are home and not going to the schools to help the kids.  I did go with my two friends to the base to pick up the CPR dummy and first aid props for teaching the trainees.  I’m not sure when that will be but probably this week.  We need for all 86 to complete this first aid class before they go to Indonesia for the next stage of their training.  See?  Always something to do.