Tuesday-Wednesday, during which I see Meredith and Curtis!

Tuesday was pretty normal. We actually did have a patient or two. Class with the second graders went okay, considering. I wonder if most of them even care. There are two kids who I know care, because they understand, but the rest… who knows? We played kickball again, with more people this time. Eventually, though, Yobe got fed up and said that it was time to play football instead. I am pretty sure the way to win is to put me on the opposite team. I stink! Fun, though. Oh, I forgot to mention, Samson is AMAZING. He made China make up with me! So I took him back to the house to give him his toy and I gave him a Hershey kiss too. He waved goodbye to me, so I hope all hard feelings have been mollified. I made macaroni and cheeseeeeeeeeee for dinner, or was it lunch, on Tuesday? with the Velveeta my mom sent with Cameron’s family! It turned out wonderfully, and I had made the right amount of sauce for the amount of pasta we had left (for three meals!). My family friends, Meredith and Curtis, arrived Sunday night! They are here to adopt, which is super exciting. I finally got a hold of them and arranged to hang out with them on Wednesday. I waited at the clinic forevars, then we finally left to bring me to the Hilton (and Hulu, Daniel, and Dr. Gemechu places). OH MAN, HE IS SO CUTE!!! His name was Binyam, but now it is Hensley Binyam. He is 9 months old. They are also adopting a little girl, Hollis (I forget her Ethiopian name) (she is two months old now), but they have to come back to get her in April. But since they are here, they let them have her while they are here. She likes to be held. I played with Hensley—I am his auntcousinthing. I get to spoil him rotten—I’m doing a good job so far. The Hilton gives them fresh fruit every day, so they gave me some of it! So I have mangos, bananas, and oranges. I think I will just start calling them “greens” or “yellows” because they rarely get orange…. and apples! Shoo, apples. Which is really funny considering how expensive they are here! Dr. Gemechu had some stuff to do with his flight, so he invited us to lunch at the Hilton with him. It was a lot of fun. Meredith and Curtis got to try Ethiopian food, and I even got Hensley started on his first solid food—injera (fitting, right?). He loves to play with my watch. We hung out at the room a little bit, then their driver came to bring them to bring Hollis back to the transition house, and then shopping. We were almost at the transition house when their driver Ohnetu, got a call that they needed to be at the embassy NOW. I still do not understand the rush. So we literally dropped Hollis off, and I am not sure if it was better that it was fast (no time to get emotional) or not. We ran by the Hilton so Meredith and Curtis could get their passports (thanks, Hareg, for telling us to always bring ours :-)). I waited in the car with the driver and read a book and stuff. Talking to their driver was fun. After about an hour, Curtis came out for the diaper bag, and, since he said that they had said it might be another two hours, I went back in with him. Something happened to one of the guys that was there to adopt two older (7/8 years old) girls, and he had to be brought to the hospital (he looked okay to me on the stretcher, but what do I know?). It was only another twenty minutes at the most, and Hensley Binyam Hannah officially belongs to us! Well, Meredith and Curtis… and Jennifer! He is such a sweetheart. We went to Churchill Rd and I got to lead the shopping dealio, since my limited Amharic is better than Curtis and Meredith’s none. They got little souvenirs for people who had helped raise money, and giraffe thing for Hensley’s room, and a CD, and Meredith got a scarf and they bought me one too, and a map. Then we stopped by Bole Mini for some dabo colo and banana muffins. I got one for each of my bruhzers. Then they brought me home (and I had NO idea the Kalaala dance rd was so rough on cars!). I had a FANTABULOUS day and I absolutely LOVE Curtis and Meredith and Hensley and Hollis.