Satuday-Sunday, during which we have guests, and I disobey Marco

It was interesting having the people from Gimbi here. They wander off (and off campus) all alone, and Cameron and I never do that! The most alone I ever am is walking to the clinic in the morning or to class before Cameron does. And Cameron walks to the clinic alone and goes and gets milk alone. Other than that, we are always together or supervised. Okay Cameron just admitted that he has gone running alone twice. But they are much more independent than we are. I am fine with that, but I did get worried about them out there all alone with no idea where they were. I mean, it is different than going with someone, or being somewhere with which you are familiar. They wanted to walk back from swimming by themselves! Their box is much bigger than mine. I like my box.
Saturday was good. We missed Sabbath school to practice for a special music. We sang Father/Jesus/Spirit I Adore You in a five-part round. It went pretty well. We brought our left over shiro and gomen to potluck with Hareg. I do not know what the Gimbi people did while we did Pathfinders (a walk alone, I think), but Pathfinders went really well. While ASL is one focus, it has also evolved into two commandments per week. Jill sent Anisha some DVDs, and we have been watching them in order. We have 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and 7 and 8. This week would have been 5 and 6, so I had them split into groups after ASL and one group did a skit about “thou shalt not murder” and the two others did “honor thy father and mother.” It could have gone terribly, but out came actors that hid themselves during our Christmas Program. The kids got really into it, and the skits came out wonderfully! They used props and everything! Temmy was a drunk, and he beat his mother, Alemayhu. So funny.
They watched a movie Saturday night, but it looked scary, so I opted out and instead showered, and read Jeremy’s book. NEW BOOK NEW BOOK!
On Sunday, I read all morning, and Cassie and Janelle watched a movie, and Jeremy napped, and Cameron slept in and then did nothing. I finished Jeremy’s book (for a big book, it was much too short), and it was really good. Samson and the Amanuel family came around 130, and we went to the swimming place. Do not tell Mer, but I swam! Yikes. I did not swim for very long, though! Cameron, Jeremy, and I swam, but Cassie would not because she was afraid of shistosomiasis. Cassie, who eats about the least carefully of anyone I have seen here. Wet green beans, no problem. Tomato with peel still on it, no problem. I let Ruth borrow my skirt/modesty changing station, so I had to try to get dry in my wet clothes and the rain. Yeah, it rained most of the way back, but we (Gimbi folks, us, Yobe, and Samson) got back before the downpour started. We were worried about the Amanuel family/group, because they got stuck, but they ended up seeking shelter somewhere, and walked back afterward. I made soup for dinner, and it all got eaten! I knew those small Gimbi appetites would not last too long.