The whole week :-)

Woah, has it really been a whole week since I last updated my blog? Oops. I shall claim “busy.” Well, this week has been pretty busy. Saturday there was no potluck, which was like DUWAH? But Dr. Jerry and Mr. Jack (Dr. Jerry is the head of Adventist Disaster Relief Association (ADRA) in Ethiopia) came, so apparently that warrants a special meal, so we ate with them and Dr. Gemechu and Hareg in Dr. Gemechu’s apartment. Pathfinders went well. We sang a few new songs and Nehemiah taught us some marching. It made me want to watch “Cadet Kelly” really badly. Sunday I made banana bread and we went to Safara. We met up with Mrs. Desta, Firmaye, Samara, and their older sister (Yanekachew was sick at home) and went to the bee hives to meet Ato Desta for lunch at some lady’s house. We had already eaten lunch, so I was full (Cameron was still hungry, though) so we went and they had some beef jerky stuff on injera. I drank most of a soda, and that’s it. Things finally began picking up in the clinic this week. On Wednesday, I think, we had a man come in with a monstrous tumor on his leg that was bigger than a cantelope. It had been growing for two years, and he came from a far far kebele (town area) to get it seen, because he heard there were American doctors here or something. Well, you have Cameron and I, but we hardly qualify :-).

I got to take some BPs and give an injection and do more inventory. Class went pretty well this week. I passed back the tests and started “The Boxcar Children” in the second grades. At the end of class on Thursday, I asked the kids what Henry had just gone to buy in the book. I spent some of the class explaining “boxcar” and Jessie had just found some blueberries. After quite a few kids who had no idea, I got MANY answers of “boxcar” and “blueberries.” That is one of the frustrating things—even if you say that “BLUEBERRIES IS NOT THE ANSWER,” you will still get kids who say “blueberry.” I said that they should know it; that I knew it in both English and Amharic. So then I wrote the first letter in each language on the board, and then the second, and Helen FINALLY got it! Hahaha. Milk. Not too hard. Well, they had fun, anyway. Having the kids act “afraid” was always fun.
On Wednesday night we made a birthday pie for Hareg… and there was enough pie filling for Jennifer and Cameron to have a pie! It was delicious.
Today we walked to Safara to get eggs so I can make pierogis on Sunday. We had an entire entourage, since we left right after school got out. In the beginning, Cameron was holding hands with two kids, and there was a chain of kids with their arms around one another on either side of that. I felt left out, but it was suuuuper funny. Then I held hands with the two girls who were with us. That is the last time, though, we walk into Safara at that time of day—the sun was shiny--ouch.
Dr. Gemechu left Thursday night :-(. We miss him already.
My toilet is stilllll having problems. Gah!!!!!!!!!! It overflowed twice today. But I am making friends with the donkeys. They each ate a piece of carrot from my hand. I named them Mandonkey and Itdonkey.
Yesterday, I decided to be brave and went to Sinke’s kitchen and asked if we could practice making injera. Cameron joined me, and we each made two (my first was worse than any I had done previously). Meskeram made us shiro (the best I have had ever) and they gave us two injeras to take home. Very good candlelit dinner. Our sink was being… crazy, and had peed all over the floor, so we got Solomon and he tried to fix it, but he ended up recalking part of it and said he was just going to turn off the water for the night so the calk could dry. YAY no more cockroaches coming through that way! He tried again to fix it, but it turns out that we need a whole new faucet or something, and so we have no faucet in our sink until at least Monday. Washing dishes was fun tonight. We saved so much water haha.
Well, it is just as well that I did not blog all week…. blogspot will not post it.