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.