Thursday-Sunday, during which we go swimming!

I have some sort of itchy bite againnnnnnnn. They started out on my left leg and my hands and wrists. Now they are on my lower left leg, and both upper legs, both hands and wrists still, and on my hips. ITCHY.
There were no patients on Thursday :-/. I finished inventory and printed the rooms that are finished. Class was good. We finished a whole chapter. They will probably be ready for the test on the first half in two weeks. I started writing the test, and it is really good. Mek’des, Hermela, Dureti, and Meskeram wanted to study, so they took turns reading the Boxcar Children outside our house. We decided to give them all Dumdums, but Dureti left her wrapper. GAH. Thursday night we cooked rice and beans for everyone at the clinic.
No patients on Friday either :-/, but lunch was a success. Cameron’s beans turned out amazing, and the rice was not mushy. We read again after class, and boy, are those kids bold. We really need to lay down the law. Dureti and Mek’des have been following Cameron into his room, asking for things and touching his stuff and asking inappropriate questions, and they followed him into the kitchen on Friday. Dureti took the spoon out of the honey bowl and stuck it in her mouth! And Mek’des had the manners to wipe the spoon with her finger before eating it. Dureti will come right into our house, and we have to physically chase out/remove China. We have to close the kitchen blinds so they do not stand there and harass us. We went to Vespers, but only stayed for the singing—they started really, really late and we were really, really hungry.
On Saturday morning, I told Cameron, “don’t chew with your mouth full!” Oops. Before church, Sinke brought us shiro and injera. WOOHOO. Church was fine. For Pathfinders, we went on a hike/swimming!! It was supposed to be to identify birds, but I hiking was just more fun. The swimming place was only about an hour away. I learned that it is perfectly acceptable to take some shumbra from someone else’s field when you walk by. Yum. The swimming place was beautiful. Girma was the first one in, and soon shed his shorts so he had on a tank top and his underpants. Cameron was the second one in. I wish I was that brave, but I do not want to get parasites. Someone convince me that I will not get sick if I go swimming, please. The little boys wore their birthday suits, and most of the other guys went in their underpants. Gezehang and Alemayhu did not go in either, and Nabon just waded, so I did not feel so bad to not be swimming. We sang some songs after, and walked home. It was very dark when we got back, but it was such an awesome day.
Today Cameron cleaned, we went to Safara, and I mopped. I will make bread when the floor dries. I borrowed Sinke’s mop bucket—SO much easier than using the sink. But I used WAY too much laundry detergent. I basically mopped with bubbles :-).
Today while we were playing soccer, I did not do half bad. Gezehang is a monster. He is so good. Baybe (Estifanos) kept calling my name, then his favorite four letter word beginning with S. He kept trying to get my attention, but I did not fall for it. Meskeram eventually asked me why I was ignoring him, but I was like, “Who?” Ha. And then China kept trying to kick me, but I would just pick up my leg and catch him in the stomach. I win today, Solomon boys. I win.

And I have no idea why everything else is blue and underlined.