Sunday - Tuesday. During which we cook and organize

Sooo Sunday Dr. Gemechu’s sister Hareg and her son took us out into the city. We went to the airport and got my lost luggage, then we went to a little market and picked out limeons, peppers, onions!, tomatoes, tangerines, okra, potatoes! and other peppers. Then we went to a little grocery store and got flour and bread for sandwiches and canned tomatoes for sauce and cheese and a few other things. Then they took us to a restaurant for lunch. Afterward, we came back, hung out, napped, took a walk, then ate leftovers again for dinner. This morning we woke up bright and early and ate then waited and waited and waited for Dr. Gemechu to come get us. I guess he thought we would sleep more. Apparently we are much higher up in altitude than CT, but none of us have really noticed it. We got a tour of the clinic (which is not finished), then got to work organizing/sorting stuff and inventorying it. We all know how much I love inventory!!!!!!!!!!!! There was everything from alcohol wipes to those sponges you use to scrub in for surgery, catheters, all sorts of other disposable things, compressors, sonograms, sheets, gurneys, clamps, scissors, dental metal things, endoscopes, medical books, pillows, and the list goes on and on and on and on. Everything is painted and they are just finishing putting in sinks and stuff and finishing the operating room. They still have to do stuff to the pharmacy, I think. They wanted to have it inside, but the government would not let them, so it is outside. They put together shelves today for the storage room. Maybe tomorrow we will wipe off some of the disposable medical stuff and organize them on the shelves in the storage room. Dr. Gemechu said it would take a few weeks to get everything finished.
We walked up to our house for lunch, and all the kids were outside eating. We waved and said hi to some of them. One of the groups you could tell were the group of mischievous boys who think they are pretty hot stuff. It was funny. After lunch, we tried to get the magicjack to work (fail) then went back and finished as much as we could with inventory. Then we sat and looked at the prettiness, then went back to get cameras and wash our hands, then took a walk. We took a lot of pictures, but they take a long time to upload to the internet. I like this customary before-dinner walk. I do not know if we will get to keep doing it once real work starts, but it is nice to get accustomed to our surroundings.
For dinner: our first attempts at cooking. Anisha is a really good cook. We were getting a little tired of the same 5 dishes for lunch and dinner. We made pasta and sauce. The sauce was not as thick as usual, and we made it with canned tomatoes, peppers, onions (Anisha said I put too many in…. I think I put too few), a packet of pepper I got from the airplane, a squeeze of limeon, a little sugar, and salt. It needed more salt, but was pretty darn good. We also opened the mango juice—YUM. Now Anisha and I are writing emails/blogs and Cameron is reading.
I am sad because my batteries do not charge. POOP. But Anisha has some I can use and I have the ones for the steri pen. I have not used it yet because we have bottled water.

Scratch that. I have since used it (we used the filter first, then the SteriPen) and I did not get sick! Whoot. It is good, too, since we are almost out of bottled water. We are going to cook potatoes to go with our sauce today. We finished another two dishes. Apparently, they will ask for the dishes back when they want them, so for now we get to use them as Tupperware (until we get our own Tupperware). Today we sorted more stuff out in the clinic and did all the medical surgical supplies and torture devices. On our way back home, we met some of the boys from school: Roman, something, and Lskjdfl jla. Tomorrow, we get to get introduced to the school and Cameron will be doing… something. And Anisha and I will be doing different things. Separatedddddddddddd. Dr. Gemechu said so it is so we do not learn English. Oh, this morning he brought us presents. Anisha got the phone for us, Cameron got his phone, and I got more internet minutes. He helped us figure out how to load them onto the computer. Whootness. We have eight hours which is supposed to last us two months. Sounds good. We are now trying to work the Magicjack.