A chunk of time

Saturday was good. Cameron and his family were here the whole day. Rehearsal went okay, kind of. Amanuel and his kids were SUPER late, and they are over ¼ of the cast. And I especially needed Amanuel for the first scenes. Girma never showed, so afterward, I talked to Yared about being the new Magi 1. He agreed, however begrudgingly. I found Girma and told him that he was officially out of the play. Er, program. I realize that he has good excuses for why he is late/does not show, but I need to be able to rely on him. If he is too busy, then he ought not have said that he could do it (much less that he wanted to be Joseph!). During soccer, Yared and Girma came back to me, and Yared promised me that Girma would learn his lines. Well, okay. Cameron’s family stayed until late, and Tamirat came and picked them up. They had a 230 am flight. ICKY. On Sunday, we went into town to get some produce. We found Samson again, WHO WAS LATE TO PRACTICE JENNIFER SAY WHA????? How do you get lost in 45 minutes? He totally knew when practice was, because he translated for Tsebenesh and Meseret. Anyway. Amanuel never showed. His kids were superfantastically late. However, Girma DID show, and he knew his lines pretty well. Well, not his verse of We Three Kings. Several people STILL do not know the lyrics! Anyway, it went okay.
I did not feel well on Monday. I went to the meeting at the clinic, then went back home and slept. What did I eat that made me so sick? I woke up around 1 and felt much better. I gave 2A their tests. EPIC fail. Well, at least they did better than 3’s first test. Their average score was 22%, and three kids passed with a 50%. I did more sheep costumes, and realized we had misplaced Ephrem’s costume! AHH. So we looked and looked, and asked Ephrem. No luck.
On Tuesday, I looked in the computer room for it. Again, no luck. 2B took their tests. Even with their teacher reading all of the questions out loud, their average was also a 22 percent. Four kids got 50%, and maybe two got higher (they left one question blank, so I am going to have them answer it next week. If they do this well, I am willing to let them answer the question. If it is the difference between a 2/24 and a 4/24, who cares. Ephrem was so worried about his costume that he made Tamu knock on our door and asked if he could look through the box. He did, and immediately found his costume. Next time, PLEASE do not wrap it in your red head covering! I thought it was Mary’s. It just never registered “two red costumes, well, that is weird.” Anyway, answered prayer big time there.
Tuesday night I got an email regarding an answered prayer of mine. That it is starting to be answered, that is. Prayer is such a powerful thing.
On Wednesday, the school celebrated Christmas, or, as they like to call it in English, “the x-mass holy day.” I do not really care for that title. All the kids decorated their classrooms with streamers and the chalkboards with colored chalk drawings. A lot of them drew Santa Clause on the board, and some even had a Christmas tree in the classroom. We had a good time taking pictures in the morning. Then. D-day time. Bekelech had a test, so she did not come, but EVERYONE ELSE came! Bebe missed school, and Temmy and Alemayo stayed home too… AND Lamlam, Bezunesh, and even little Edelowyt. I let Mek’des be a sheep. All in all, the play went, well, I was “backstage.” Someone tried to help me by bringing on a chair for scene two, but I was like, “No, do not go onstage again kthanks.” I wore blacks for a reason. Cameron says the singing was okay, but that it was hard to hear anything. Hareg really liked it, and so did Daniel. Amanuel, actually, was the biggest disappointment (considering I do not know whether or not Girma actually knew his verse of “We Three Kings”). He wanted to bring the words to “Away in a Manger” onstage for the last scene (he (Joseph) and Mary, the Innkeeper, and the narrator sing it together). WHAT? No, I said. I would rather you stand there and look like an idiot. He insisted, and I insisted harder and took his script and pushed him onstage. THEN HE GOES TO CAMERON AND GETS THE HYMNAL! NO, AMANUEL, NO! So yeah. Not too pleased. But whatever. I hope it made a difference for someone. After the play, we took pictures of the different classes having their Christmas parties. Cameron stayed with 8 for lunch and stuff, but I had too many people. Too many people. Lunch at home for me, then I went grocery shopping while Cameron ate lots of bread and drank lots of coffee. We chilled inside a bit, being interrupted every five minutes by more kids wanting balloons. We want to give to them, but we want to give to grateful, humble kids, NOT greedy little monsters. Mek’des has turned into a greedy little kid. We played soccer for awhile in the evening. We started making dinner (injera, shiro, and the green bean and carrot dish) in the dark WITH MY NEW CANDLE, but then the electricity turned back on. America called around 9something, and I got to talk to Rachel, which was cool.

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