what about me?

so what was actually my job there?

well, here's how a patient was going through our team.

He first needed to go to the registration get a number, give the information about him and why he needed to see us.

then went through the visual acuity. from here he would go to different point dependant of what he needed.. if he just needed reading glasses -> reading glasses, if he needed more than that -> mike for a complete check up and prescrition.

once the prescrition done, he come to me and i would enter the prescription in my computer to find the perfect match in the 2000 prescritpions glasses we have. well the perfect theory would be that we will have theperfect glasses for everyone... sadley nope! so i look and look again sometimes, check over 5 or 6 different glasses to find the best one.. go back to me who gave me  some crazy prescription that i new i would never find in my boxes.. a long work sometimes really frustrazing because we have all the information to have the perfect galsses to help the person but not the perfect glasses.. so sometimes it was hard to not be albe to help them the way i wanted to!

but there were as well some good point and goos end! sometimes i need to "make" the perfect glasses! what do i mean? well few exemple:

 - a person needed a glasses with a power of +2.0 on a side and nothing on the other.. of course we didnt' fnd anything close enough! so.... i just took off on of the lens!!

- the other person had a blind eyes but this eye blured his vision so i decided to try something. i took a peace of taoe and put it on the lens of the blind eye. then the vision was really improve! the glasses looked really funny with a red patch on them but it worked!!! 

NabouWalu let's the party started!

the optometric team:
Seta (translator, fiji), Mike (NZ optometrist), me (optician), Lepani (fiji), Jens (germany), Rina (fiji), Russel (Australia), Arnoud (nederland), Jenny, Sandy (NZ)....

we started the week by three days at the hospital.
the first one was challanging because we needed to organized for the first time the room and train the team... we had so many people coming to see us that we were inda really busy!! the room was full and we didn't know when it will stopped!
we get more organized the other days and let just few people in the room in same times... more quiet and peaceful!

it was just amazing and very different! using my job to help and serve GOd! Just a dream coming true..

at the begining it was kinda stressfull because we needed to adjust, to find the way to work between mike and me but then we had a lot of fun..

sometimes we had just 15 minuts break beforestarting again but honestly,  i would have done that again and again if it needed.. all those people needed glasses and i'm excited to have done the best of me for them!

best of me? well ok.. i need to say that the first day i was not complitely with the team, with GOd.. He did need to re-focus me on why i was there! i was kinda focus on the country on my picture i had of fiji, of the outreach and the fact it wasn't the same once here... o i pray and give all to God, then trhough all of the weeks God give me smile and surprise about that..

they were so many people ad the nurse from the hospoital were impress the we will see all of them... to be honest i didn't know how we would see them all.. we see 80 people the first day, and between 60 and 70 the next  two days!!!

ENCOURAGMENT: but God provide and encourage, give strengh when we need! i had the song which says " the joy of the lord is my strenght" during the all outreach...  our favorite song was "ou are my strength" and we had encouragement from people we saw! the director of the clinic said to Andy that he was impress and encouraged to see the way we treat people, each one of them like he or she was the first of the day. With love, respect and joy... He really saw God through that... AMEN!

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Nabouwalu outreach 1

well it's been already 2 weeks that i'm in switzerland and still didn't writte anything about Nabouwalu... wooops! so as promise here i start..

i arrive in fiji on the 27th of july... the first week as i may already wrote i just sorted out things, clean and organise a little bit the glasses and the optometrist boxes.
i really anjoy being in Suva! what a nice city! I specially learn to know the ambassy ( hehe.. o visa..) but really enjoy walk around!

Then, the real advanture started!!!! the team came in and we sail on friday!
24 hours of sail.. i don't know if the sail was bad or if my pills didn't work but i get sick twice... ( yep i was sure to et sick but twice is not to bad!!!!)
i enjoy anyway the freedom to be at sea and the peace we can feel when nothing is arround... get wet, i mean complitly wet! you may say why were you on the bow sitting at the very front of the ship?? because it's the most amazing place to be on sail! you feel so free, so peaceful... it's hard to explain what i feel when i'm there but it really amazing and exiting!
but all the waves get smash on the front too and big waves = aline wet!

anyway we arrived safe in vanua levu in the morning and docked next to an other ship. docking was pretty exiting! i think for both side! we were all on the side looking at the ship docking and ashore they were as well all waiting for us, lookinjg what was going on..

as soon as we docked i went ashore and played with the kids, had a tour of the village... was beautiful! I was looking forward to really start on monday!


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lay it down jaci Velasquez

well this song means even more for me.. and it make me think of someone, i want to writte it to this person... i think it just good to remember that we can do anything else except lay it down and trust God!? this song express a bit of what i have in my heart and i want to sing it for God until i can all lay it  down at the cross...

thanks for listening to me all the time for carried me when i fall for breaking the chain and set me free.. you make me breath again and hope.. i will lay it down to you cause i know your love will be enough.. i know you hold me in your hands!

I've been lookin' till my eyes are tired of lookin'
Listenin' till my ears are numb from listenin'
Prayin' till my knees are sore from kneelin' on the bedroom floor
I know that you know that my heart is achin'
I'm running out of tears and my will is breakin'
I don't think that I can carry the burden of it anymore
All of my hopes and my dreams and my best laid plans,
Are slowly slippin' through my folded hands

Chorus:
So I'm gonna lay it down
I'm gonna learn to trust You now
What else can I do?
Cause everything I am depends on You
And if the sun don't come back up
I know Your love will be enough
I'm gonna let it be, I'm gonna let it go,
I'm gonna lay it down.

Verse:
I've been walkin' through this world like I'm barely livin'
Buried in the doubt of this hole I've been diggin'
But You're pullin' me out
I'm finally breathin' in the open air
This room may be dark but I'm finally seein'
There's a new ray of hope, and now I'm believin'
That the past is past, and the future's beginning to look brighter now
Oh, cause all of my hopes and my dreams and my best laid plans
Are safe and secure when I place them in Your hands.

Chorus:
So I'm gonna lay it down
I'm gonna learn to trust You now
Oh what else can I do,
Cause everthing I am depends on You
And if the sun don't come back up
I know Your love will be enough
I'm gonna let it be, I'm gonna let it go

lay it down Nichole Nordeman

To every son and daughter
Wayward and long gone
The love of a Father will leave the light on

I tried to throw you off track
A needle in the haystack
And I don't know how you found me
Or why you let me come back
Cuz it's a long way home when all you're left to carry
Is a heart of stone
And the weight of most the world
And I'd like to


Lay it down a little
Lay it down a lot
I don't want to hold it anymore
Lay it down in pieces or
Lay it down in whole
Everything I've carried on my own
Lay it down

I spent your money
Living on the fringes
But you threw a party for me
Invited all your big friends
And i have learned a little bit about a heavy load
All that gleams and glitters is not worth its weight in gold
And I know I should

i love the chorus.. speak to me.. i know tat what i need to do but it's so hard!!! 

no more chain, Nichole Nordmann

those two songs just touch my heart this past few weeks... 

it just speak to me through what i go and make feel peaceful when i hear them so i wanted to share with you.. you can go on youtube to hear them as well...

How did I get locked up inside?
What’s this that renders me paralyzed?
I lost myself in small pieces
It happened over time

I traded love for a heavy chain
Another link every other day
I pulled it up and down a mountain
It made me want to say…

No more chains
No more chains
Big and small, watch them fall away
No more chains
Big and small, watch them fall away

I wonder now if the choice was mine
The door was open, I walked inside
Nobody had my arm twisted
Nobody made me stay

The face of freedom can show up small
A tiny crack in a prison wall
A song that rises up from silence
A voice that wants to say…

I should let you give me wings
I should let you set me free