On This Day...
Following breakfast and worship, we were informed that we would be working on a tamarind plantation for Don Mario, the man who is kind of behind this whole trip. He is a rich man, with about 4 houses, acres and acres of land, and two trucks – definitely much more than most people in this area. This caused me to see a little bit of the lack of logic that is being used here – since the way I understood it was that we were coming on a mission trip to help those less fortunate than ourselves, but it turns out that we will be helping those more fortunate than ourselves and leaving the others to live in their state of poverty...
Anywayyy, this guy has 1600 tamarind trees on this plantation, and there were 7 or 8 of us working on this one part which was hoeing circles around the trees, cleaning out the vegetation that grew beneath the trees. There were thorns and various other pests such as ants, which delighted in biting our feet. Now the previous day during the intense bucket/sand removal/river adventure, I had a peculiar pain in my foot, but since I had previously kicked something I assumed it was from that, and that the pain would gradually decrease as time went on...night fell, it hurt just as bad as it had, and I began to think that possibly I had broken something, so I decided to get Marta to look at it the next morning (or today) but I never got a chance. So when I was working, it was still hurting just as much, so I decided to take a look at it, and lo and behold, rather than a broken bone it turned out to be a tick which had embedded itself into my foot, right between my two toes. Because it was in that location, I hadn't seen it until that moment and so this horrendous creature had been the cause of my pain, and had been slowly eating itself into my skin for the past day. I was none too pleased to say the least. I went to find Eli who is the closest thing to a nurse that was there, and he set about to removing it with a credit card or something like that. And of course as all good ticks work, it's head remained, and so it still does even until this moment. We tried many different ways to try to get it out, but there is a layer of skin covering it, and so it is difficult to remove the creature especially with it's location. But tomorrow we will hopefully be able to get the rest of him out so that he will stop causing me pain forevermore.
Other than that, the day was quite good and the Lord blessed us as He always does. :)
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