Things I forgot to mention: The other night, the kids all came up to our window during supper, and this is what we heard:
Give me rabbit. Give me bread. Give me kick.
Give me kick?
No, give me kick *mimics eating cake*. Give me crazy. Give me Fox movie (that came from Meskeram). Give me grape.
And on our way back from swimming during the rain, Alex, Ephrem and Temmy and the dogs (oh yeah, Yobe and Samson brought Rocky and Pup), left before us. Then, just as we were crossing the river where it crosses with the road. who do we see coming from the right (we had come from the LEFT)? Temmy, Alemayhu, Ephrem, and the dogs! They must have seriously miscalculated their route to have come from that direction.
Wednesday we had one patient, BUTshe had to get a bunch of tests done, so she spent like 100 birr. The kids were talkative and disrespectful during class. But after we finished reading after class, Cameron and I went exploring in the new house. It is beautiful! Their stove (which is on our front porch) is really pretty too. It is almost done! Twelllllllve third graders passed (50 or higher) their test. So proud am I. I went kind of haywire on the little rewards they get.
Thursday was unexpectedly and spontaneously interesting. Cameron stayed home from work because he was not feeling well. His voice is croaky, and has been for the past few days. No patients, and he is feeling better now.
Oh yeah, I have a kid in 2A named Biscuit. It means cookie. COOLEST EVER.
I do not think much happened Thursday and Friday, except that we had TWO patients! One each day, I think. The lady on Thursday spent like, 90 birr on tests, which is good for us. Gezehang came in on Friday, because he was sick. He left my class early on Thursday because he was not feeling well, and he might have mumps (but he said he was feeling better on Saturday). OH, ON THURSDAY I GOT THREE LETTERS!!! A letter from Hanna, a Valentine’s Day card from Liz, and movies/TV shows from Abby! Oh happy. And I got two package slips, and Cameron got two letters from Shelby. We watched FOUR episodes of Glee on Friday :-D.
Saturday was good. No power, so no keyboard in church, and no projector again for Pathfinders. Pathfinders went really well though. Cameron and I made up imaginary people and they had to sign them to one another.
Sunday was pretty much the most boring nine hours ever. Pretty much. The kids got their first semester results, and the first three kids in each class from all the school in the region get together and get awards, so we went with them on the bus to the place to take pictures. We were ready to leave at eight, but did not end up leaving until after 930. (We had to take the second bus.) We sat there for hours listening (or not) to some guy say things, and then they gave us dabo and soft drink, which was nice. FINALLY they started giving out the awards. They did it in the most time-consuming way possible. By school, by grade, by place! So the first kid in 1st grade in one school, then another, then another….. then second place in first grade for each school… etc. Really? They should have done it by school. Or at least only by grade. “And for Shibu Ijersa third grade, first rank, Gezehang Tola, second rank, Samson Alemayhu, third rank, Yosef Asefa.” Would have gone twice as fast. Or half as slow… :-D. Thankfully we made it on the first bus back, even though we had to stand. It was fun, actually. We had them drop us off by Eyeret’s so we could get bananas and vegetables. I was happy to get to go home, but Firmaye and Samara invited us to their house. We said that we had to go back, but she said to just come then we would all go buy milk. Ha. Their mom gave us this spicy tomato something wot, and dabo and soft drink…. and then made us coffee, but Safara is out of sugar, so I suffered through about one regular sip of totally terrible coffee. Their cat had kittens. They already had fleas, even though they are only 15 days old. So after that, we finally went back home, and met Firmaye’s older sister coming back from buying milk! Haha. Unfortunately, they had run out by the time we got there. We did buy injera in town, though, and so we made tofu wot and shiro for supper. And then we watched the Amazing Race, because they flew to ADDIS!!!!!!!! Oh, and then to Lalibela, unfortunately. I wish they had stayed here. Oh well :-(.
Give me rabbit. Give me bread. Give me kick.
Give me kick?
No, give me kick *mimics eating cake*. Give me crazy. Give me Fox movie (that came from Meskeram). Give me grape.
And on our way back from swimming during the rain, Alex, Ephrem and Temmy and the dogs (oh yeah, Yobe and Samson brought Rocky and Pup), left before us. Then, just as we were crossing the river where it crosses with the road. who do we see coming from the right (we had come from the LEFT)? Temmy, Alemayhu, Ephrem, and the dogs! They must have seriously miscalculated their route to have come from that direction.
Wednesday we had one patient, BUTshe had to get a bunch of tests done, so she spent like 100 birr. The kids were talkative and disrespectful during class. But after we finished reading after class, Cameron and I went exploring in the new house. It is beautiful! Their stove (which is on our front porch) is really pretty too. It is almost done! Twelllllllve third graders passed (50 or higher) their test. So proud am I. I went kind of haywire on the little rewards they get.
Thursday was unexpectedly and spontaneously interesting. Cameron stayed home from work because he was not feeling well. His voice is croaky, and has been for the past few days. No patients, and he is feeling better now.
Oh yeah, I have a kid in 2A named Biscuit. It means cookie. COOLEST EVER.
I do not think much happened Thursday and Friday, except that we had TWO patients! One each day, I think. The lady on Thursday spent like, 90 birr on tests, which is good for us. Gezehang came in on Friday, because he was sick. He left my class early on Thursday because he was not feeling well, and he might have mumps (but he said he was feeling better on Saturday). OH, ON THURSDAY I GOT THREE LETTERS!!! A letter from Hanna, a Valentine’s Day card from Liz, and movies/TV shows from Abby! Oh happy. And I got two package slips, and Cameron got two letters from Shelby. We watched FOUR episodes of Glee on Friday :-D.
Saturday was good. No power, so no keyboard in church, and no projector again for Pathfinders. Pathfinders went really well though. Cameron and I made up imaginary people and they had to sign them to one another.
Sunday was pretty much the most boring nine hours ever. Pretty much. The kids got their first semester results, and the first three kids in each class from all the school in the region get together and get awards, so we went with them on the bus to the place to take pictures. We were ready to leave at eight, but did not end up leaving until after 930. (We had to take the second bus.) We sat there for hours listening (or not) to some guy say things, and then they gave us dabo and soft drink, which was nice. FINALLY they started giving out the awards. They did it in the most time-consuming way possible. By school, by grade, by place! So the first kid in 1st grade in one school, then another, then another….. then second place in first grade for each school… etc. Really? They should have done it by school. Or at least only by grade. “And for Shibu Ijersa third grade, first rank, Gezehang Tola, second rank, Samson Alemayhu, third rank, Yosef Asefa.” Would have gone twice as fast. Or half as slow… :-D. Thankfully we made it on the first bus back, even though we had to stand. It was fun, actually. We had them drop us off by Eyeret’s so we could get bananas and vegetables. I was happy to get to go home, but Firmaye and Samara invited us to their house. We said that we had to go back, but she said to just come then we would all go buy milk. Ha. Their mom gave us this spicy tomato something wot, and dabo and soft drink…. and then made us coffee, but Safara is out of sugar, so I suffered through about one regular sip of totally terrible coffee. Their cat had kittens. They already had fleas, even though they are only 15 days old. So after that, we finally went back home, and met Firmaye’s older sister coming back from buying milk! Haha. Unfortunately, they had run out by the time we got there. We did buy injera in town, though, and so we made tofu wot and shiro for supper. And then we watched the Amazing Race, because they flew to ADDIS!!!!!!!! Oh, and then to Lalibela, unfortunately. I wish they had stayed here. Oh well :-(.
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