Malika - Day 5 - Just Another Day at the Beach

I think I'm finally getting used to the schedule here; wake up at 10, go to bed at 12 or later. We usually eat lunch around 3 and dinner at 8 or 9. After breakfast I started drafting another building that Dany wants to get going. It's a circular hut with 2 stories. The first level is just a kitchen and living room and the second level has two bedrooms and a bathroom. It's a little difficult to get used to the metric system. Normally I will equate a meter to a yard and that works out to be pretty close. After finfishing the rough draft, Herma took Dave and I to the beach. We were greeted by the sight of men from a local village fishing, though their definition and my definition are slightly different. A fish net consists of a long ( probably about 3-400 yards ) rope. In the middle would be a net about 100 yards long that would hang down. 20-30 men would hold on to one end of the rope and the rest would be put into a boat. The boat would then head out to sea and make a big horseshoe shape and come back to shore. It would then drop off the other end of the rope to another group of 20-30 men. Both sides would then start slowly pulling the net into the shore. They would start at one end of the beach and have to walk down the beach while pulling because of the motion of he waves. After watching them for a while Dave and I finally jumped in the water. It was an excellent temperature. There were lots of little waves, but nothing to write home about ... but I'm going to anyway. We had the priviledge of having a private drum lesson from Jeebs. He would show us a particular beat and we would continually botch it up. =) It's interesting though because Jeebs would start out a rhythm and we would follow his lead. After a while we would finally catch on and we would sound really good. Sometimes we would mess up but he would keep on playing in rhythm and we would have to stop for a second and find it and then we would jump back in. What an amazing parallel to the Christian life. If we are not following Christ then we are just living to the beat of our own drum. However, if we let him lead and follow his lead we can create quite a beautiful sound to the world. If a brother next to us gets out of rhythm on accident we don't laugh and point fingers you just smile and keep on playing the beat that has been started and they will eventually find it again and if they don't then you sit next to him and guide him out of love. Because Christ is the head of the church and since there are different churches throughout the world, I've noticed that there is a different rhythm here. Not a different leader, just rhythm. As long as we are following the right leader those around us will be drawn to our sound and will want to be a part of it. Dinner consisted of some scrambled eggs with sausage, tomatoes and cheese. Good stuff. Watched some LOST, last part of the world cup and now it's off to read and bed. I bid you all, fondue. IXOYE <><. -Lee