Woohoo!!!! It's here.

Hey everyone.

Wow, I am so sorry it has taken over a week to write my first blog - I know you are all waiting in anticipation, lol!! Anyway, things have been busy and slightly hectic to say the least!!

So, how are things you're all asking and I guess you're expecting a massive 'AMAZING'?! Well, that is not the answer. Things have been good but also not so good, I guess the best way to describe things is rocky in an adventurous way.

I've had some fun with friends and children but also had some hard times. Time being a difficult constraint at points. Work at the hospital is different and fine, but that's all it is at the moment. It's amazing how small it is to English hospitals and how quiet it is. This week I am on a 30 bed ward and there is a nurse to every 3/4 patients, where as back home you get a nurse to about every 8-10 patients. So I am a little bored at times and kinda frustrated, but things are getting better and I am able to change wards in order to experience different things. I think I will ask to work in Intensive Care next week which will hopefully be so much more demanding of me. Also, a lot of the nurses here are enrolled and not registered which means they do not have the training or knowledge I am receiving in England so I don't feel as though I am learning enough. There was a very positive point yesterday though. There was an 8 year old in with chicken pox and she was just getting ready to be discharged. She had no family with her though and was so playful, she just wanted attention. Not many people were giving it to her though so I did and it was GREAT :) I was helping her with her maths and then she started teaching me numbers in Lugandan, it was so much fun and we both laughed lots.

Here is a pic I had taken at the weekend, playing with my neighbours :) they are so adorable!!!!

So I hear you screaming that you wanna know about me and my boy, right?! Well, he is very lovely thank you and we are growing a lot. Challenges don't stop here though. I thought things might be easy for a while, but they are definitely not!! I knew we'd hardly get to see each other in the week due to uni and work, but it turns out he has uni on Saturdays for his last semester and his last semester is now - sucks!!!!!!! I was so annoyed and frustrated but we are dealing with things as they are thrown our way.

I am sorry this is such a small blog but time is short tonight. On Saturday I will blog for real!!

Love you all but love here as well!!

Keep believing God for the best even through rocky times!! x

Work hard.

Hi everyone. I'm sorry I haven't blogged in absolutely ages, lots has been going on really. I've now moved back home which is great but sometimes hard :) and I'm back in my home church now which I love even more. Also, I'm a third year student and in 11 months will be a qualified nurse, scary but exciting stuff!!

I'm just really realising how much effort I need to start putting into things. The last two years of uni I have kind of blagged my way through, with not particularly much effort. I now realise that even though being a nurse is something God has called me to do and be, it is not going to come easy for me. I believe in God for His complete provision and faithfulness - I do not fear being able to get a job wherever it may be, but I know I have to make an effort to. God can make anything happen but I musn't use that as an excuse to be lazy. Before, I wanted to be a nurse but now I want to be a GREAT nurse. In order to be this I need to work hard and apply myself to my training and then my job. I believe that when I put the effort in God will bless me for it and through nursing I'll really be able to bless and love people.

I don't really know where this is leading - maybe that we need to trust God completely for our futures and dreams but we musn't let this faith add to our laziness. Have great faith, but also work hard.

'All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.'

Proverbs 14 v 23

As a quick testimony which doesn't really follow the topic but then maybe it does. As lots of people know I am travelling to Uganda this summer - it is now only 7 sleeps away!! It has come around so quick and God has truly provided. Last June was the beginning of it all. Within three weeks I was offered a placement at the International Hospital Kampala but it took until late February this year to completely confirm the placement. Can you believe that it took 9 months to sort something that could have been confirmed within the first month or two?! As you can imagine, I was getting completely frustrated and didn't actually think the placement would go ahead. However, it was confirmed and within a week of that someone from my church at university had offered to pay for my flight and two or three weeks later I had received confirmation of receiving funding from the university. God is good!! I presisted with my dreams and even though it took a lot of time, God provided it all and so much more!! Be encouraged and know that with persistance comes results.

Much love as always. Enjoy the sunshine!! x