Rieki in Africa Day 4

Day IV: This morning we go back to Seke Hospice and split up into 3 groups, one group goes to see patients in one district and another group goes to see patients in another district. I go with Stella, head of all the district volunteers. We are headed up to the 7 Day Adventist retreat where we will be spending 2 nights, and where I will begin the Reiki Classes. The two Interns and the Hospice nurse travel with me. We ride in a lowery; I am riding on the gear box, in the center. Stella is on the other side of me. The three women are crowed in back of our seats. I was told this would be a 2 hour drive. It took all day. We arrived at 5:00 PM. Very interesting; I was told we were taking the short cut around the mountains, I wonder how long it would take if we had not taken the short cut. We pick up some of the Reiki students that had been waiting all morning. We go to a funeral of one of the Hospice Volunteers father and pay our respect. It is in a quaint looking village. We stop at a fast food/grocery store to eat lunch and pick up supplies for the cook, and then we pick up the cook. We then stop at the market place to buy eggs for breakfast. Alone the way we pick up people and give them rides for short distances or to their destination if it is on our way. All these people stand or sit in the back of the Lowery. The road is very bumpy and curvy. We went past villages that looked prosperous with beautiful green gardens of kale and greens. We went past villages that looked dangerous. We went through villages were the people were very poor. The children looked pitiful. I passed women carrying baskets and all sorts of things on their heads. I saw women with babies tied to their backs. There were school children in the afternoon in their uniforms walking home from school. We were stopped by the Police and had to pay $10.00 American to go through the road block. Very bumpy hard ride. Beautiful rock formations everywhere. Africans walk more than any people I have met. I kept turning to Stella; are we there yet, and she would say just a little bit. This went on for hours. The woman who ran the 7 Day Adventist Retreat Center was very Kind. There was no electricity and no hot water. The accommodations were very nice and clean. A Woman came and brought a bucket of hot water that she carried on her head for us to take a bath. A wonderful man hung nails for our mosquito netting. At 5:30 PM the Sun sets and lights out; everything was by candle light or flash lights. Dinner was romantic by candles and an oil lantern. Reiki Class starts in the morning. Becky and I go to our cabin and by flashlight we put together the Reiki information for in the morning. Yea!!


Brenda McDaniel R.N. Cht., Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Crystal Healer
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