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.