Well, no patients until we had gone home for lunch. Amanuel had forgotten his key at home, so had had borrowed Cameron’s, and forgotten to give it back, so since Cameron (for some reason) had locked his room today, so he could not get back in. And THEN there were patients at the clinic who needed medication, so we had to wait for Tariku (Amanuel’s nephew/errand boy), to bring back the key. I had a fun time trying to get the keyboard out of Dr. Gemechu’s apartment, because Sigue was gone and Girma could not find his key. He eventually did, though. We had no water all day boo. At least there is water in the garden. Anyway, Cameron was still not back when I went to class, but I figured he would come soon. Oh class. Oh class. AHHHHH! So, I love Mondays because I love 2A, BUT the 2B teacher tried to explain to me something about how I could not have 2A :-/. So I ended up getting half of 2A and half of 2B (the smart halves). Turns out (I spoke with Kinfe afterward), that there was going to be tutoring Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for the kids who had bad first-semester test scores. So on Mondays I can have the smart halves, and on Tuesdays, I can have 2B? Anyway, so there I was, in the class where half of the kids are on slide 28 and the other half on slide 3! I could either start from where 2B was, and have the 2A kids be super bored, or I could start from where 2A was, and have the 2B kids TOTALLY confused, or I could so something different. I had no idea as to what that “different” thing should be, but in the process of reading with Mek’des, Dureti, Hermela, and Meskeram, I had made a list of words they had trouble pronouncing. I did not have the list with me, but I thank God that He gave me that idea weeks ago so I could use it this week! I think they enjoyed it, and it bought me a week to grasp my bearings and figure out what the heck I should do. Now I have to figure out what should happen. Should I have the less smart kids only on Tuesdays? But that means they have extra class every day after school except Thursdays, and I know a lot of them walk very far and still have work to do when they get home. I am going to go discuss this with Kinfe today after lunch.
Oh, today is Tuesday, and the most exciting thing is that I finished consumable inventory and will “train” Hulu and Adunaye on how to do it when they get back from going somewhere. Hulu’s daughter is here today too.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Sunday-Sunday, during which we get to teach again!
Sunday, we did not go to Safara, because we did not need any produce because we had not used any during the week, and we had bought some that Friday anyway. We did laundry (three loads) and watched a movie. Patients were few and far between this week, but there was so much rain! It is very odd for it to rain this time of year, but it rained every day, and poured half of the time. It even HAILED one day! Teaching 2A was very trying because I had to scream to pretend to be heard over the din on the din on the tin roof. 2B is still frustratingly slow, but third grade went really well this week. On Thursday I introduced the new thing of letting one student read each class period, and a lot of them wanted to read! I am so excited. I could teach them every day, as long as their teacher stays. Oh, ha. He hit a kid one of the days, and I talked to him and told him that he should not hit students. I still have to ask Dr. Gemechu if he talked to Kinfe about him. And then, on Friday, the most amazing thing! 15+ kids showed up at my door, wanting to read (like Dureti, Meskeram, Mek’des, and Hermela usually do)! They had a LIST and took ATTENDANCE, without, I am pretty certain, any prompting from an adult! I have no idea what inspired them to do this, but I eventually figured out that Samson (one of the really smart 3rd graders), wrote the list. I want to teach third grade every day, not just Wednesdays and Thursdays. Some English words make truly no sense. Why would anyone not have trouble reading, “enough,” “through,” and “laughing”? It makes no sense at all. Most of the kids had left by the time it started to pour, but Mek’des, Hermela, and two brothers in third grade (their mother cleans the classrooms), were still here, so we played catch with the football on our front porch. The boys kept slipping on the slick, wet concrete in their shoes and it was so funny. Samuel eventually came up, and then later, Tamu, and much later, the Solomon boys. We sang some songs, and had fun playing catch. Mek’des got all put out because I would not give her a pencil, “You give Dureti pencil!” and I had to have the “You cannot always get what you want” speech with her. We would be MORE than happy to give them things all of the time, but they turn into greedy little monsters! I will eventually give her a pencil, but she is the worst with “give me….”
Saturday was a lot of fun. Amanuel had said we were invited to another church to do their youth program in the afternoon, so we prepared a whole program. Program haha. We played special music for church and I am sure church and Sabbath school were very good. Mek’des and Dureti came :-). Pot luck with Hareg, Bereket, and his brother, who is visiting, was wonderful, but I did not manage to avoid coffee. Hareg gave us a big talk about not eating at our restaurant in Safara, because we do not know who touches our injera, dirty handed people. Then we set out with Samson to go to that other church. We met up with Yobe, who ended up coming with us, which was kind of weird (but super cool) because he does not go to church. We took the taxi to where we were meeting someone from the church. To get there, we passed by an area that TOTALLY reminded me of down south! There were horses and carts EVERYWHERE! All of the horses were too, too, too skinny. It was a nice little church, with pews, a PIANO, and A MICROPHONE! Wowwowwow! At first Samson was the youngest kid there, followed by me, but eventually some more young people came. When our program started, we sang a few songs (Making Melodies, and I’ve Got Peace Like a River), had prayer, and while Cameron read the story of Abraham and Isaac, I set up for the activities. We did the “trust fall” exercise, which was awesome because they were freaking out, then did an activity which involved them being blindfolded and having to tell their teammates where to go to tag all four pieces of their team’s colored papers. I think they all had a fun, fun time. We performed a skit, and Cameron gave a little talk. On the way back, there was a horse with a TERRIBLE sore on his neck! Bad owner. The ominous gray clouds were rolling in, so I bought a pair of sandals so my tennis shoes would not get wet when it started to rain. Samson took us to this superrrrrr sketchy “Café and Restaurant,” and we ordered Bayanet (haha for me) and t’ibs for the guys. Yobe ordered beer, but Samson told him not to do that in front of us (I feel smart for figuring this out even though it was in Amharina). It started to POURRR like WOAH. The power went out so we could not get coffee. Yobe paid (doh, we wanted to do that), and we braved the less-heavy rain and got a taxi (or three) back to near enough to the Summit taxi stop so we could walk home. My pretty new shoes were all muddy, but at least my tennis shoes were still dry, and I could wash them clean. It was such a great day. God totally blessed our program, because Cameron gesticulated and was way more comfortable public speaking than usual, and the activities went well, and we did not butcher the skit. They want us to come back and do the entire day! Yikes. And they want me to bring my flute. We are truly blessed.
OH! Great spellings from the restaurant’s menu. They serve: scrmbeled egg, chpse, Makori with Grarlik, Riec, Meet firfere, and Tomato Soce. They also spelt spaghetti wrong every time, but it is truly a hard word to spell, and they spelt it the same each time. They spelt firfir different every time too. Funny.
Saturday was a lot of fun. Amanuel had said we were invited to another church to do their youth program in the afternoon, so we prepared a whole program. Program haha. We played special music for church and I am sure church and Sabbath school were very good. Mek’des and Dureti came :-). Pot luck with Hareg, Bereket, and his brother, who is visiting, was wonderful, but I did not manage to avoid coffee. Hareg gave us a big talk about not eating at our restaurant in Safara, because we do not know who touches our injera, dirty handed people. Then we set out with Samson to go to that other church. We met up with Yobe, who ended up coming with us, which was kind of weird (but super cool) because he does not go to church. We took the taxi to where we were meeting someone from the church. To get there, we passed by an area that TOTALLY reminded me of down south! There were horses and carts EVERYWHERE! All of the horses were too, too, too skinny. It was a nice little church, with pews, a PIANO, and A MICROPHONE! Wowwowwow! At first Samson was the youngest kid there, followed by me, but eventually some more young people came. When our program started, we sang a few songs (Making Melodies, and I’ve Got Peace Like a River), had prayer, and while Cameron read the story of Abraham and Isaac, I set up for the activities. We did the “trust fall” exercise, which was awesome because they were freaking out, then did an activity which involved them being blindfolded and having to tell their teammates where to go to tag all four pieces of their team’s colored papers. I think they all had a fun, fun time. We performed a skit, and Cameron gave a little talk. On the way back, there was a horse with a TERRIBLE sore on his neck! Bad owner. The ominous gray clouds were rolling in, so I bought a pair of sandals so my tennis shoes would not get wet when it started to rain. Samson took us to this superrrrrr sketchy “Café and Restaurant,” and we ordered Bayanet (haha for me) and t’ibs for the guys. Yobe ordered beer, but Samson told him not to do that in front of us (I feel smart for figuring this out even though it was in Amharina). It started to POURRR like WOAH. The power went out so we could not get coffee. Yobe paid (doh, we wanted to do that), and we braved the less-heavy rain and got a taxi (or three) back to near enough to the Summit taxi stop so we could walk home. My pretty new shoes were all muddy, but at least my tennis shoes were still dry, and I could wash them clean. It was such a great day. God totally blessed our program, because Cameron gesticulated and was way more comfortable public speaking than usual, and the activities went well, and we did not butcher the skit. They want us to come back and do the entire day! Yikes. And they want me to bring my flute. We are truly blessed.
OH! Great spellings from the restaurant’s menu. They serve: scrmbeled egg, chpse, Makori with Grarlik, Riec, Meet firfere, and Tomato Soce. They also spelt spaghetti wrong every time, but it is truly a hard word to spell, and they spelt it the same each time. They spelt firfir different every time too. Funny.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Thursday-Sunday, during which the Pathfinder thing finishes
Well, I do not specifically remember anything on these days, except that we picked up some packages on Friday. I like washing breakfast dishes the best. Usually it is rice, dabo (Western bread) and shai (tea). So, as always, washing cups are super easy. My favorite favorite breakfast is real dabo (Ethiopian bread that pretends to be Western), marmalade, and shai. All we have to wash are cups, some spoons, and some really easy plates.
Hmm, Thursday must have been Bruno’s birthday. I saw two sheep in the yard Wednesday, and was a bit worried for their future…. I asked Bekelech if they were for dinner tomorrow or new pets. She thought for a moment, then said quite seriously, “No, lunch” :-/. So, we had sheeps for lunch, for a special birthday dinner. Thanks, ADRA. Well, they also got us soda, which was cool. They built a swingset for the kids, which they really liked. Saturday we made pancakes (can’t skip pancakes for Saturday breakfast). After church, the Germans showed us some cool toys they made. Something like a spinny thing on a playground, and a swing thing kind of but they used a harness and hoisted people up really high then pulled the pin then dropped them. The look on some of their faces was so funny. They had to stop Mek’des after like, one swing because she looked so terrified. But China did it. Go him. I will try to post some pictures.
After dinner on Saturday, the Germans had built camp fires and promised us chocobananas. You slit open a banana, put some chocolate in, and stick it in the fire. When the chocolate is melted, eat it. They also taught us how to make bread on a stick. Super cool. Southern had sent us a bag of big marshmallows, and I had found a perfect marshmallow-roasting stick, so I did that, and everyone was really curious about what I was doing. Only Meskeram did not like them. I swear Samson can make marshmallows out of rocks, because he kept coming up with more of them. Yobe and Samson’s woahwoahwoahwoah! They really, really liked them. I wish we had had more. We ran out pretty quickly once word got out what was going on. Someone shared a chocobanana bread with Cameron, me, and someone else—it was pretty good. We were up later than usual, so I went to bed while the festivities were still going on (what’s new?). And now everyone is gone. No more people. Even the Germans left to spend a few days in Langano before going back to Germany. Such nice people, truly. They gave us some… sandwich spread, and were giving things to Mek’des and Dureti (oh now, they have figured out what happens when foreigners leave!). They ate honey like they had never seen it before! Sillies. I made cookies, but we have no brown sugar, so I had to use only white sugar, and mostly butter because we ran out of shortening. They turned out okay. Who am I kidding? They are cookies! They will be eaten without complaints.
Hmm, Thursday must have been Bruno’s birthday. I saw two sheep in the yard Wednesday, and was a bit worried for their future…. I asked Bekelech if they were for dinner tomorrow or new pets. She thought for a moment, then said quite seriously, “No, lunch” :-/. So, we had sheeps for lunch, for a special birthday dinner. Thanks, ADRA. Well, they also got us soda, which was cool. They built a swingset for the kids, which they really liked. Saturday we made pancakes (can’t skip pancakes for Saturday breakfast). After church, the Germans showed us some cool toys they made. Something like a spinny thing on a playground, and a swing thing kind of but they used a harness and hoisted people up really high then pulled the pin then dropped them. The look on some of their faces was so funny. They had to stop Mek’des after like, one swing because she looked so terrified. But China did it. Go him. I will try to post some pictures.
After dinner on Saturday, the Germans had built camp fires and promised us chocobananas. You slit open a banana, put some chocolate in, and stick it in the fire. When the chocolate is melted, eat it. They also taught us how to make bread on a stick. Super cool. Southern had sent us a bag of big marshmallows, and I had found a perfect marshmallow-roasting stick, so I did that, and everyone was really curious about what I was doing. Only Meskeram did not like them. I swear Samson can make marshmallows out of rocks, because he kept coming up with more of them. Yobe and Samson’s woahwoahwoahwoah! They really, really liked them. I wish we had had more. We ran out pretty quickly once word got out what was going on. Someone shared a chocobanana bread with Cameron, me, and someone else—it was pretty good. We were up later than usual, so I went to bed while the festivities were still going on (what’s new?). And now everyone is gone. No more people. Even the Germans left to spend a few days in Langano before going back to Germany. Such nice people, truly. They gave us some… sandwich spread, and were giving things to Mek’des and Dureti (oh now, they have figured out what happens when foreigners leave!). They ate honey like they had never seen it before! Sillies. I made cookies, but we have no brown sugar, so I had to use only white sugar, and mostly butter because we ran out of shortening. They turned out okay. Who am I kidding? They are cookies! They will be eaten without complaints.
Addis Traffic Laws
Haha, so this was in an Ethiopian Horizon magazine. Some new Addis traffic laws. There are fines for:
Leading animals onto a roadway
Operating vehicles that emit large amounts of smoke
Conducting any kind of business on a roadway
Splashing a pedestrian with water (we assume this refers to driving through standing water in such a manner as to cause the described offense)Not exercising the appropriate level of care around railroad crossings
Pushing or pulling hand operated carts on main roadways
Not following lanes
Parking on a narrow roadway
Repairing an automobile on a roadway
Picking up or dropping off passengers from a moving automobile (this can only be targeted at minivan’s and their weyelas, we don’t know anyone else who practices such foolishness)
Not yielding to traffic at an intersection
Utilizing pedestrian walkways for other purposes
Driving without a seatbelt fastened or enforcing the use of the same for passengers (presumed to be the front passenger but not clarified)
Parking a vehicle on a pedestrian walkway
So funny… for us at least.
Leading animals onto a roadway
Operating vehicles that emit large amounts of smoke
Conducting any kind of business on a roadway
Splashing a pedestrian with water (we assume this refers to driving through standing water in such a manner as to cause the described offense)Not exercising the appropriate level of care around railroad crossings
Pushing or pulling hand operated carts on main roadways
Not following lanes
Parking on a narrow roadway
Repairing an automobile on a roadway
Picking up or dropping off passengers from a moving automobile (this can only be targeted at minivan’s and their weyelas, we don’t know anyone else who practices such foolishness)
Not yielding to traffic at an intersection
Utilizing pedestrian walkways for other purposes
Driving without a seatbelt fastened or enforcing the use of the same for passengers (presumed to be the front passenger but not clarified)
Parking a vehicle on a pedestrian walkway
So funny… for us at least.
Recent Miracles
Okay back to the best part of the day. Remember how I had mentioned about Daniel wanting a digital camera for the school? Well, my mom emailed me and said that one of the fathers on my brother’s basketball team had come up to her today and given her a BRAND new camera! He had bought it for his
God provides in ways we never even imagined, and blesses us beyond our biggest expectations. I thought it would be a big enough miracle to find a used, older camera, but this one is twice as good as mine!
Oh, another miracle, I had let Estifanos be alone with my camera in the clinic because I knew he would not hurt it. I told him just to be careful with the shutter cover thingy (it is broken; every time I turn it on I have to manually open the shutter). Amanuel found me and had taken the camera away, and told me to be careful with it. I told him that it was okay that Estifanos had it. I do not know what he did to it, but when I got it back, it is a bit off-kilter when it is closed, but I do not have to open it manually anymore!
AND God has answered my prayers about having patients in the clinic. Instead of about two per week, we now have about two (or three) per day. :-).
The power went out one (well, more than one) night this week, but this night it was during dinner, so we served everyone in the dark (plus candles), and I prayed that the power would come back on so we did not have to wash dishes in the dark, and near the end, the power came back on, so we washed with electricity!
God is so powerful; what more can I say.
God provides in ways we never even imagined, and blesses us beyond our biggest expectations. I thought it would be a big enough miracle to find a used, older camera, but this one is twice as good as mine!
Oh, another miracle, I had let Estifanos be alone with my camera in the clinic because I knew he would not hurt it. I told him just to be careful with the shutter cover thingy (it is broken; every time I turn it on I have to manually open the shutter). Amanuel found me and had taken the camera away, and told me to be careful with it. I told him that it was okay that Estifanos had it. I do not know what he did to it, but when I got it back, it is a bit off-kilter when it is closed, but I do not have to open it manually anymore!
AND God has answered my prayers about having patients in the clinic. Instead of about two per week, we now have about two (or three) per day. :-).
The power went out one (well, more than one) night this week, but this night it was during dinner, so we served everyone in the dark (plus candles), and I prayed that the power would come back on so we did not have to wash dishes in the dark, and near the end, the power came back on, so we washed with electricity!
God is so powerful; what more can I say.
Saturday-Wednesday, during which the Pathfinder week begins!
On Saturday during Pathfinders we sang some, went over the birds we saw last week, and then did some marching. Bekelech and I were so bad it was funny. Falling all over one another laughing our heads off. I am a troublemaker. Oops.
Sunday morning we went to Safara right after breakfast to get some food. Later in the evening, we helped move desks into the new assembly hall. While we were waiting for the “move out” call, I played hide and seek with the kids. I had the bestest hiding places. Behind the main flower thing with the flag. We crawled around it on our bellies to get to the other side and thus closer to the base. The Pathfinder group arrived in the evening.
No patients on Monday. NONE. And it was Hanna’s last day at the clinic :-(. Nothing to do in the evening, since we took pictures throughout the day of the Pathfinder activities. They did knots and had some sort of inside meetings. It would be useless for us to attend, since they are in German translated into Amharic. It took me eight hours to do one load of laundry—NOT including drying time.
Tuesday was much more interesting. We had a few patients—Dureti’s dad (he came into the clinic on Friday, and I found on that it really was him) was back, and a little boy, Yohannes. He and his mother came in with another lady and her baby. His name was…. Obama. When they told Hulu, I started laughing really hard and ran out to tell Cameron. But he is a charming baby. We played peek-a-boo and he was sooo cute. Anyway we had to draw blood for possibly anemic Yohannes, and we did not have a small enough butterfly needle, so we snapped the tip off of a syringe. It took us (well, Hulu) three tries to get it. Poor baby. But he was one tough cookie. We helped serve lunch and wash dishes, and it felt SO good to not sit around doing nothing all afternoon. We hung out at home until Cameron realized they were playing soccer so we went to play. I stinkkkkkkk. Then we helped serve dinner. We dished it up in record time. Super fast. Rice and dabo (bread), which was really weird to eat. But the bread was really good (as was the rice). We washed dishes, practiced some Amharic, watched some House, and now bed!
Wow, greaseee. I mean, we had patients today! I made Estifanos come in—a thorn had stabbed it and it was huge. So after Estifanos got treated, he hung around, and China ended up coming too, so the three of us were in the nurses’ station. Estifanos left, and China was just hanging out, being well-behaved, and then he left, and I called him back because he cannot just go running around the clinic, but he did not come back, so I went after him. Amanuel told me that he had ran by (all the way around) so I go SPRINTING back…. and wipe out on the freshly mopped floor…. and crash into some chairs. I better bruise, after all that. Hulu wanted to bring me to the Korean Hospital at first (why, I do not know…). But I am totally fine.
A few other people came in too, including one of the German people. Would you believe with all this GOOD Ethiopian cooking, they make their own meals? Weirdness. Totally beyond me. It is actually quite a miracle that we get to eat with the people this week, because we would be SO out of groceries by now. This afternoon was some really good green vegetable stuff and fake doro wat (eggs, no doro (chicken)). But man, oh man. We know what makes their cooking soooo good. Oil oil oil oil oil oil oil. Those dishes are SO hard to wash!
HAHAHAHA so. Washing supper dishes tonight turned into a water fight. At first it was Alemayo, me, and Nehemiah, and then Girma came in and we blamed Samson. We had a “You!” “YOU!” “YOU!” “You!” fight in Amharic. Then we got Girma involved and Kibret SOAKED him. It was SO much fun. Everyone ended up wet. Except Cameron—killjoy.
I taught CPR today in the clinic. Yeah so cool. It was horrible, but I tried my best. And lunch was special because it was one of the German guy’s birthday. Dr. Jerry (the leader of ADRA Ethiopia), bought soda for everyone and cake… and two sheeps. ;lkdfja;odifja;s lkd :-(. Poor sheepies. And I do not mean Lauryl and Heather heehee But they had two vegetarian dishes and the cake was super good. The afternoon stuff. Then Greg (one of the Germans) brought out some rope and we double-dutched and jumped rope for a bit. I came back in and turned on the television, and GUESS WHAT MOVIE WAS ON?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COME AWAY HOME!!!!!!!! I went out to tell Cameron, and when we came back inside, it was on the last scene. I announced that MBC MAX was the best channel ever. The guy was playing his song and Chris and Annie were together and then he asked if he could, “like, um, email or text her or something.” Then they held hands and the last scene happened and the movie ended. We were super confused and sad that we missed the most epic line ever, but we just put in the DVD and watched the last scene AND MBC MAX HAD CUT THE LINE!!!!!!! So, in honor of Come Away Home, “I’m glad you came tonight.” I eat my words about it being the best channel ever.
Sunday morning we went to Safara right after breakfast to get some food. Later in the evening, we helped move desks into the new assembly hall. While we were waiting for the “move out” call, I played hide and seek with the kids. I had the bestest hiding places. Behind the main flower thing with the flag. We crawled around it on our bellies to get to the other side and thus closer to the base. The Pathfinder group arrived in the evening.
No patients on Monday. NONE. And it was Hanna’s last day at the clinic :-(. Nothing to do in the evening, since we took pictures throughout the day of the Pathfinder activities. They did knots and had some sort of inside meetings. It would be useless for us to attend, since they are in German translated into Amharic. It took me eight hours to do one load of laundry—NOT including drying time.
Tuesday was much more interesting. We had a few patients—Dureti’s dad (he came into the clinic on Friday, and I found on that it really was him) was back, and a little boy, Yohannes. He and his mother came in with another lady and her baby. His name was…. Obama. When they told Hulu, I started laughing really hard and ran out to tell Cameron. But he is a charming baby. We played peek-a-boo and he was sooo cute. Anyway we had to draw blood for possibly anemic Yohannes, and we did not have a small enough butterfly needle, so we snapped the tip off of a syringe. It took us (well, Hulu) three tries to get it. Poor baby. But he was one tough cookie. We helped serve lunch and wash dishes, and it felt SO good to not sit around doing nothing all afternoon. We hung out at home until Cameron realized they were playing soccer so we went to play. I stinkkkkkkk. Then we helped serve dinner. We dished it up in record time. Super fast. Rice and dabo (bread), which was really weird to eat. But the bread was really good (as was the rice). We washed dishes, practiced some Amharic, watched some House, and now bed!
Wow, greaseee. I mean, we had patients today! I made Estifanos come in—a thorn had stabbed it and it was huge. So after Estifanos got treated, he hung around, and China ended up coming too, so the three of us were in the nurses’ station. Estifanos left, and China was just hanging out, being well-behaved, and then he left, and I called him back because he cannot just go running around the clinic, but he did not come back, so I went after him. Amanuel told me that he had ran by (all the way around) so I go SPRINTING back…. and wipe out on the freshly mopped floor…. and crash into some chairs. I better bruise, after all that. Hulu wanted to bring me to the Korean Hospital at first (why, I do not know…). But I am totally fine.
A few other people came in too, including one of the German people. Would you believe with all this GOOD Ethiopian cooking, they make their own meals? Weirdness. Totally beyond me. It is actually quite a miracle that we get to eat with the people this week, because we would be SO out of groceries by now. This afternoon was some really good green vegetable stuff and fake doro wat (eggs, no doro (chicken)). But man, oh man. We know what makes their cooking soooo good. Oil oil oil oil oil oil oil. Those dishes are SO hard to wash!
HAHAHAHA so. Washing supper dishes tonight turned into a water fight. At first it was Alemayo, me, and Nehemiah, and then Girma came in and we blamed Samson. We had a “You!” “YOU!” “YOU!” “You!” fight in Amharic. Then we got Girma involved and Kibret SOAKED him. It was SO much fun. Everyone ended up wet. Except Cameron—killjoy.
I taught CPR today in the clinic. Yeah so cool. It was horrible, but I tried my best. And lunch was special because it was one of the German guy’s birthday. Dr. Jerry (the leader of ADRA Ethiopia), bought soda for everyone and cake… and two sheeps. ;lkdfja;odifja;s lkd :-(. Poor sheepies. And I do not mean Lauryl and Heather heehee But they had two vegetarian dishes and the cake was super good. The afternoon stuff. Then Greg (one of the Germans) brought out some rope and we double-dutched and jumped rope for a bit. I came back in and turned on the television, and GUESS WHAT MOVIE WAS ON?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COME AWAY HOME!!!!!!!! I went out to tell Cameron, and when we came back inside, it was on the last scene. I announced that MBC MAX was the best channel ever. The guy was playing his song and Chris and Annie were together and then he asked if he could, “like, um, email or text her or something.” Then they held hands and the last scene happened and the movie ended. We were super confused and sad that we missed the most epic line ever, but we just put in the DVD and watched the last scene AND MBC MAX HAD CUT THE LINE!!!!!!! So, in honor of Come Away Home, “I’m glad you came tonight.” I eat my words about it being the best channel ever.
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