Monday-Tuesday, during which our visitors leave, and Mezmoor turns five.

We had a patient on Monday! Wow, I thought I just deleted all that work I did. Whew. We waited outside with the Gimbi people for Abebe to take them back to town. God sent Janelle as an answer to our prayers, because she took a bunch of Anisha’s stuff in her nearly empty suitcase! AND she lives in Collegedale too, so we will not have to get it to her in a complicated manner. So awesome. So *ahem* they accidentally stole the key to our house when they left, so we could not get into my room. That was okay, because Abebe could bring us back the key, but then we realized that they took “lock up when you leave” to mean “lock the kitchen AND the other room.” Ut oh. We never lock our kitchen save when we go to bed! Worse, it was lunch time and Jennifer was hungry, and hungry Jennifer is a bad thing. But thankfully, Cameron had two granola bars in his room, so we prayed, thanking God that we had more than many, including many kids right at our school, and ate, grateful for the small bounty He provided us. Oh, and Amanuel had Cameron’s key to his room (but Cameron had not locked his room that day). Then, I thought to go see if Tsigue had a key to our room or the kitchen…or both. She finally found a key in Dr’s house that unlocked our house! I thought that, for some reason, the Gimbi people had taken our kitchen key and house key, but they had locked up like I do at night—kitchen key in our house! So we were able to eat lunch afterall! Best Ramen I ever had. Apart from the fact that it had like, three things to put on it—oil and spices, “Bantu sauce,” and spicey something. Super cool. Want more for next time. God really does provide for us. Especially since Abebe did not come back to the compound until 430! Class went well. I think one or two more chapters until the second-graders’ test. I bought potatoes and a zucchini after school. We had to wait for the lady who sells our produce to get there, and I was third in line, so it took awhile. They said the potatoes were not pretty, or something, but I said that I did not care, and the lady went out anyway and picked me 1 kilo of better potatoes! They are so good to us here. Five birr later, I had my produce. They also have pumpkins or gourds or something, but we will get one of those after we eat the giant zucchini. Cameron was talking about where all our pens had gone, and said, “Amanuel has one [pen] I borrowed to him.” HAHA. For the win! The verb for “borrow” is the same for “lend” so they are confused all the time when speaking, and I guess Cameron picked it up. Awesome.
Tuesday marked the day when Ethiopia kicked Italy’s butt out of Ethiopia—YAY! Thus, no school/work. Cameron woke up super early and went with Samson to a Kalaala vs Safara football game. We lost 4-5 :-( but he had a good time. I spent the morning lonely. When he got back, he informed us of the afternoon’s entertainment—a birthday party for Samson’s brother, Mezmoor, who turned five today! He came around one, and we went to his house. We got to have lunch their (miser/key wot, gomen, and firfir). And Mirinda mmm. LOTS of pictures I took. It was fun. They had some bila porridge, but by then I was very full. And then we had buna, and they drink theirs with less sugar than most Ethiopians, but I did it. Go me. Afterward, we went to Safara for bananas, carrots, onions, and garlic. I made Eyeret’s wife let me pick out the garlic. The last few times we have gotten it, I have had to throw away more than half of it because it was either soft and icky or moldy. So far, only half of one of the cloves I have done has been icky. I was unable to finish, though, because House came on at 620ish, and we both stopped what we were doing (Cameron stopped in the middle of a word on one of his emails) to watch. Yay. Then we finished/sent some emails, and Cameron’s dad called. I talked to him for a few minutes, and asked if he could call back in a few minutes because Cameron was on the internet. We started to watch another episode of House on my computer, but he called back now so I finally finished my blog up to now!