What a Day!

Do you ever have those days where you feel like you have accomplished a lot? You know one of those days where you feel like everything has fallen into place and your hard work is starting to show? You know those days when you come home from work feeling energized, on top of the world, and just plain good? Today was one of those days for me. Throughout my time here, I have known that it would take time to build relationships to be able to go deeper, and get to the nitty gritty of things. However, patience has never been one of my strengths! Not only relationships, but also just understanding how things work here, what the processes are, who to talk to, etc. etc. With any new job, it takes a while to figure your way around and here I am adding a new country, new culture, new language, and stuff so it has taken a while. I still have more to learn but today was just good. We were able to get so much accomplished and really talk through a lot of the issues that we have been facing at one of the projects. In addition, we were able to be creative and figure out how to tackle them and even do that without getting outside funding. I felt like we were really communicating which so often I do not feel like because the culture here is indirect communication and protecting the relationship at all costs and sometimes that means telling me what they think I want to hear instead of reality. I feel like today significant progress was made in that area. WOW! Praise God! What a day!