Saturday and Sunday, during which we are finally busy, and eat Indian food

Saturday was PANCAKES FOR BREAKFAST (every Saturday, that is). Cameron and I went to Sabbath school, and I left early to practice and get Anisha. The sermon was going to be in ENGLISH!!! (translated by Daniel) because the pastor was from Nairobi. Cameron did his special music (Cast Your Cares), and then the pastor started preaching about prayer. I nudged Anisha and was like, “US TOO!” Anyway, it was a great sermon, and after Anisha and I did our special music (we signed “I Get On My Knees”), Hareg got up and made sure that everyone understood how God had worked through everyone, having us all pick songs/sermon that had to do with prayer. It was really neat. Potluck was nummy, as usual. We had Pathfinders, and we had decided to do a few songs, and then split up into two groups. One would go with Anisha and Cameron and act out a Bible story, and the other group would stay inside with me and learn ASL. We did the alphabet, and everyone had a problem with “G.” My first group started out small, then all these adults came in, so we kept having to start over. I think most of them had fun. We will have to work on it again next week. The second group was just six kids, and it was fun. Emmanuel is a fast learner (he stayed with me to translate). Then, everyone came inside, and each group acted out their skits. I took pictures. Afterward, a huge group of people came in, and Emmanuel explained that they were from another church, and came to pray for our church and/or youth program? It was cool. We got back, and started to do the pumpkin. Project. Project, project, project. We cut it open, and Anisha cut it into smaller pieces and de-seeded it, and I peeled it and cut them into small cubes. We took a break to cook dinner (fried rice, which did not really turn out to be like fried rice, segun Cameron), then boiled the pumpkin and mashed it up. We got two big freezer bags and a zippy bag of cut up ones to use in soup or Indian food and stuff. We went to bed late, and were sooo tired.

On Sunday, Daniel had told us that he would get up to play soccer with us… at seven am. So after our late night, we got up to play. Samuel was already watching the cows, and a few of the other boys were around. Oxen, pardon, not cows. We started just kicking the ball around, and then organized a game. Apparently they have tutoring on Sundays, so there were other kids around who played. By the time I went into breakfast at eight, there were so many kids there. The teachers take turns coming two at a time, and whenever they show up, tutoring happens. By the time Cameron came in, he said there were about a hundred kids there. Anisha, since she could not play, watched the oxen so Samuel could play :-). I helped a little—it was fun. Leftover pancakes for breakfast, then I showered and got ready for the day. Around 1140, Dr. Gemechu called and said that they would be there shortly to pick us up for lunch. Yared picked us up, and we went to Hareg’s house to get her, Dr. Gemechu, and Azeb. Her house is nice—it has a lot of guest housing too, since some of the high school kids live there so they are closer to school. It turns out that “England” lunch (as heard by Anisha) was “Indian” lunch (as said by Azeb). Azeb and Anisha (our local Indians) ordered for us. We got naan (a bread thing), paneer curry, chick pea curry, biryani rice, naan with onions (my favorite), and allu gobi (a dish with potatoes and coliflower). It was all delicious. And we got to take home the leftovers. We stopped at Bole Mini to get stuff from the bakery, and Azeb insisted on paying. We got cracker things, banana muffins (for me), coconut muffins (for Anisha and Cameron) and cinnamon rolls (they have raisons, so I might only have one). I love Bole Mini. After we got home, Cameron and I took a nap, whilst Anisha answered over a week’s worth of emails. We watched an Australian movie called “Peaches” and it was… weird to say the least. Leftovers for dinner (I made a pizza thing), and then I made pumpkin cookies. I think they turned out rather well.

Wednesday-Thursday, during which we get mail and play soccer.

Today Dr. Gemechu again did not need us at the clinic, so Anisha was happy. I worked on ASL songs, and hopefully Jeff will look them over for me when I finish. Anisha and I are going to do a special music (or five) and I have one song that will be a good solo (ack). Abebe dropped off a grater and peeler, and then Azeb stopped by and visited a little bit. I miss American cheese. Class went well. We listed all the “th” words they could remember and made sentences out of all but three of them in 26 minutes. AND I think most of them even understand what thunder is! (Although we are still working on “thump.”) Anddd Stephanos’s shrill, “JENNEY-FARE” is calling me now.
At the request of Chris, I shall describe injera and hopefully post a picture of it. Injera is made from teff, a grain that grows here. Injera is gray, and about 1/8 inch thick. Well, I say gray, and Cameron says “grayish but light brown.” Okay, I looked at the picture, and it is more graylightbrown. It has a bubbly texture on one side (like the craters left behind when a bubble pops), and is more smooth on the other from laying in a pan. It is sort of sour-tasting, and soft, and moist. Kind of like sourdough. I think there is a picture already up of it.

I think I worked translating songs into ASL Wednesday night, and then we called it an early night.
Thursday was much like Friday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM! I made a family powerpoint (which I did not end up using, but plan on using at the end of the family lesson), and replied to emails, and worked on the ASL songs.
Samson had invited us to go play soccer today at noon. We thought we had been invited to play with the kids at recess, and at first it was kind of like that. Then someone told us to save our energy because that was not the real game—it turns out we played against the teachers! We played full court (which was exhausting, because when we play with the kids at night, we play half-court). The teachers were intense—they had uniforms and everything. We just were… regular. And I pick today to do my laundry and so I have to wear my shorter shorts in front of the whole school. Eh, it does not matter—they guys’ shorts were about the same length haha. CAMERON was our keeper, and he was fantastic! Anyway, even with me on the team, we won 10-4! It was so exciting. The whole school was watching. I like doing basketball defense on people so they do not get the ball. I thought it would just be a half-hour game, but we played for 35 minutes, then had a ten minute break (during which Cameron and I went and got some water) and then played until 245 or 250.
Class went really well. I called Mom for her birthday after, and she called me back before supper. I wish the clinic would open soon. I want to do medical stuff instead of sit around all day. I suppose I should be grateful for this time, and use it to prepare lesson and stuff, though. Cameron and I made dinner. We cut the onions bigger than Anisha usually does, and managed to get the beans kind of softish. We had the BRILLIANT idea to put taco seasoning in the rice, and it turned out really good. We watched Remember the Titans, which was, of course, excellent, then went to bed.
On Friday, Dr. Gemechu dropped off a bag that Cameron’s mom had sent with someone. IT HAD COOKIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and it had a countdown LEGO candle for Christmas, and some other things. Dr. Gemechu suggested we go pick up Cameron’s package at the post office. On our way out, Emmanuel said he needed two special musics and a Pathfinders program. Well, ce la vi. We thought it would take a long time, but we went to a smaller branch, so I guess that made it smaller. Anisha was going to nap, but she ended up having a package too, so she came with. When we met Yared to get some little yellow slip, I got a package too! Thanks, SM office! They sent me the ugliest leaf ever (it was laminated). We went to lunch at one of Abebe’s favorite places (Ethiopian) and it was a buffet. We could not go before because they did not have vegetarian food, but today was fasting day, so we could dig in! It was so good, and, don’t tell Hareg, but I had some salad! Mwahaha. We were all stuffed. The buffet was $4 for each of us. Both Cameron and Anisha had one of the really spicy peppers and regretted it :-). We went grocery shopping, and I FINALLY got vegetable shortening! When we got home, we had a present-opening party (Amanda, we do it better), and Anisha got some clothes and garlic salt and taco seasoning. Cameron’s was a birthday present from Shelby, BUT shout out to Stephanieeeeeeeeeee who sent a note to me in it! He got some Taco Bell hot sauce, candy, PLAY DOUGH!!, stickers, and chips. I got… two copies of the Accent, some SM newsletter, Taco Bell sauce (one of each intensity), that leaf, AND a note from COURTNEY!!!. We were all very excited. I cut up our old bag of onions, and we told Stefanos that we were not going to play today. So sad. We are having leftovers for dinner since only I am really hungry (no matter how much I eat, I am still hungry later), but cookies will be for dessert I think! Anisha and I picked a song for special music, and, roughly translated, practiced. It’s not bad. I did send them to Jeff to try to edit.

Monday-Tuesday, during which Cameron empties his suitcase and Jennifer makes YUMMY

I have no idea

We did not do anything with the clinic Monday morning, so Anisha and I made paper dolls, so to speak, with the cookie box that Azeb had gotten us. I am going to teach the kids family words, so we have a grandmother, grandfather, two brothers, both married, and then one has three kids, and one has two. I tried to make the three siblings to be like Autumn, Hannah, and Lijah (awesome kids from camp). They look funny, but I tried. I still have to think of names for the other people (except I thinkkkk their dad’s name is Ron/ald, so I will call him that). I should pick common American names. They look pretty good, and hopefully there is a picture posted below. After lunch, Anisha made chick pea curry for S’ike and for us for dinner. Yum. Hareg called and said that she was going to take us out for an England lunch on Sunday. I wonder what that entails. I thought I would have 2A for class today, but when I got there, the teacher asked if we could switch because he wanted to do something with them Tuesday after school… soooo plan B! Thanks, Esther. EMW really is not as bad as we pretend. We always end up having a fun time with the people, right Marco and Abby? I wanted to keep some of the people from this past year. Anyway, back to the present. Guremo kicked Samson out with the rest of the not-Learning-Village kids. We feel they should make an exception for him. At one point, we were playing 3 on 3 with Gezuhine as one keeper and a little kid as the other, and I realized that I was being counted as an equal participant! Ack! I actually had a good bit when I was guarding Y-obe. Defense rocks. Then Onedessan (the guy who takes care of the cows) had me guard Cameron and he got claustrophobic. Yay defense. I felt bad, though. We eventually did get more players. I made those folded fortune tellers with our napkins. It was fun. We ate dinner, then I started making peach cobbler/crumble. To my absolute DISMAY, there were all sorts of bugs in the box! I think it was because there was a rip in the bag… Last time we buy 2 for 1 at the grocery store… Anyway, I had to sift through all of it, and I did not even do all of it (I maybe did half) and it was so gross because I could not just look and pick, like we do for rice, because there were these little lightbrownyellow ones and some were still alive and…. GROSS! Cameron and I watched Bones while Anisha showered, then when she got back we watched Scrubs. I probably sifted (with a 2.5inch diameter sifty thing…taptaptaptap) for over an hour. So I finally gave up, and started making the actual dish, which took no time at all. Anisha went to the other room, and Cameron got bored and started sifting the rest of it. We made three dishes of it (bread pan twice and our square pan once). It made a lot of it. Mom, I did my best to drain the peaches well :-). They FINALLY came out of the oven, and we tried the masterpiece. It looked fantastic.

When we ate it, Cameron put it quite perfectly, “This fills a hole in my heart I never knew I had.” DELICIOUS. Even better, we told Anisha it did not turn out so hot, and she BELIEVED US!!! She still has not tried it yet, but hopefully she will at dinner tonight (Tuesday night). Cameron helped me clean up, and I put the bread pan back in the oven. I thought we had cleaned up, but when I came in for breakfast this morning, there was cake powder ALL over the table. Haha. Dr. Gemechu had told us that there would be stuff for us to do today in the clinic, so we called him, and he said just to chill (my words, not his) and that he would call us in a bit. Cameron and I set up shop in the kitchen, and studied Amharic for awhile. Then we decided (though what possessed us, I will never know) to mop the kitchen! It was nearly impossible not to mop yourself in, so my feet got all wet. Cameron cleaned his bathroom, and then we hung out in his room while the floor dried. His bathroom is sweet. We had the leftover curry for lunch, and a small piece of peachygoodness. We asked Dr. Gemechu if we should go down to the clinic after lunch, and he said no. Gah. At least we made plans to meet Daniel at 230 to give him all the books we brought.
Daniel took all the books and supplies Cameron and I brought (except some of the crayons, which I asked him to save to give away as prizes). 2A was good. We even began to talk about family (my next lesson plan).
We made dinner, then went outside to play. Someone had a bicycle… a tall someone, and it had the most awesome seat covering…. kind of Indian, or the print of an old-fashioned sofa, with two-inch yellow fringe. Classy. I had to have Y-obe hold it so I could get on, and I had to have Cameron stop the bike so I could fall off without hurting the bike. Y-obe dragged Onedessan over to ask where Anisha was. Dreads or a goatee? Soccer was good, except Y-obe smashed into my leg at one point and it is still sore. I guarded Onedessan, and he said I was clever. Well, he told me to guard Cameron yesterday, so I guess it is only fair. The rest of the night was pretty regular.

God is so cool

God is taking such good care of us here. On Friday, I was reading a book in which the characters were making a frozen pizza. Then, I really wanted pizza. Then, we went down to the clinic and they had gotten pizza for everyone. It was not Papa John’s pineapple pizza (rather, it was spicy and had zucchini, carrots, onions, peppers, olives (which I took off) and mushrooms) which I took off) but the crust was pretty good. It was soft. How cool is God to get me pizza? I did not need pizza at all, and would have been perfectly happy with some rice and beans, but… yum. And then Azeb had gotten us cookies and candy? What a mighty and generous God I serve.

Friday-Sunday, during which we eat injera four days in a row, and participate in the health fair

Well, tonight (Saturday) is movie night and the power is out. I used my computer today during Pathfinders, so I … just kidding, the power is back on. I was going to say I hope it came on so my computer could charge for movie night. Tonight is actually movie, popcorn, and candy night (popcorn because Anisha’s aunt sent us some, and candy because it is Halloween). Exciting, right?
Back to Friday. Friday was actually quite a busy day for us. We called Dr. Gemechu, who said that he would call us right back. We called him again over an hour later (he had been in a meeting). He said to go down to the clinic and meet the people there for the health fair on Sunday. Well, we went down, walked around with Mack’onay, and only saw two people we did not know (who seemed not to understand if we asked if they were here for the health fair.) So we went back to the room. Dr. Gemechu called at 1145, and said to go down again. I hoped it would not take long, because I was planning to have lunch at 12. There were 8 nurses there (plus Ado and Hulu; Dr. Gemechu’s wife, Azeb; Emmanuel; Daniel; Hareg and Yared; and the guy whose name I forgot…I know he does youth stuff). We met everyone, and were about to go inside for the meeting, but instead we all washed our hands and went inside. They had gotten pizza and soda! “Just as a snack.” Haha—lunch for me! The meeting was mostly Emmanuel talking about NEWSTART: Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunshine, Temperance, Air, Rest, and Trust. Azeb left early, but gave us a bag with cookies and something else in it (Anisha would not let rude little me look while we were there). It was so nice of her! Hareg called after she left and told us to take the whole pizza that was left. We eventually left, but by now it was getting late, and we were supposed to go grocery shopping because we were probably not going to be able to on Sunday. (Azeb had also given us Twix, Mars bars, and Snickers.) We went to Dr. Gemechu’s room to talk to them, and it was eventually decided that they would take us to town then. Cameron could not go, because he has a class from 3-345, but Anisha and I went with Abebe, Dr. Gemechu, and Azeb, then were picked up by Yared, and we went to the grocery shop where we usually go, got stuff we needed (except a peeler/grater, baking soda, and vegetable shortening). Then we went to the same produce stand as last time, and they gave us a free orange to try and a free banana. We like this produce stand! (Well, we will have to go somewhere else for okra and peppers.) AND WE GOT A PUMPKIN. Now, as soon as someone sends Anisha how, we can make canned pumpkin out of it so we can make cookies and bread and pie and yum. We also got mangos! Then Yared brought us back. We ended up giving into Stephanos’s cries of “Jenney-fehrr!” but before soccer, there was a music fest. Y-ob and Samson had us listen to some of their stuff, then I brought out my ipod and made them listen to Christian music, Spanish music, and country. The first song they put on was “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” which made me laugh. After I finished making them listen to a Spanish song, the guy who was looking at it asked if I had any country. I showed him my scores of songs, and he listened quite contently until we started playing soccer :-). I love how so many people here like country music! Dinner was the leftover injera and pizza. Yum. After dinner, we opened the cookies and practiced for special music.
Today I woke up, showered, and poured a bowl of cereal before I realized, “Shoot—Sabbath is pancakes for breakfast day!” I had to put the cereal back and whip up a batch of pancake mix. This time, we had eggs and baking powder, so this was the best batch yet. We then just waited around until someone came to get the piano and us for Sabbath School. Anisha and I sang “As the Deer,” with Cameron on piano, then listened to the Sabbath School (not that we understood much). Then was church, and I played “Shine, Jesus, Shine” on flute with Cameron on piano after the sermon. Hareg asked if we heard what the pastor had said, and I responded that yes, we did, but that does not mean we understood it. She laughed. Potluck time! Very first thing I noticed was the presence of BANANA FRITTERS! I was super excited. Why does food make me so excited? The injera and whateverelse we put on top of it was good, filling, and satisfying. Hareg now knows that we want to know how to make injera and the accompanying dishes, and plans to be present to translate when S’ike teaches us. Whoot. She also said she will teach us how to make banana fritters. Dr. Gemechu showed us the tree Cameron’s dad planted while he was here, and we said we want to plant ours by the clinic. We vegged out before Pathfinders, and during it we taught them three songs. Emmanuel used my computer to show the DVD (you cannot get a virus from a DVD, right?). It was a movie called “The Ten Commandments,” and was Amharic dubbed over English, so we could understand when the Amharic guy was not talking :-). We want to watch the Veggie Tales Jonah movie that Anisha brought. After Pathfinders, we came back home and read and napped.
We ate leftovers for dinner, and decided to make the guacamole pasta sauce thing for tomorrow for dinner and just put it in the fridge. Good decision, because the avocados were super old. We popped popcorn and ate Reece’s Pieces while watching Stranger than Fiction (Hanna, if you are reading this, I thought you of through the whole thing). I dressed up as a Nudist on Strike (MLIA) and Cameron was a superhero. Anisha was lamelederhosen and decided to be and Indian Giver. About halfway through, she decided to be pillow girl. Cameron sided with me on the fact that Anisha was lame. Anyway.
Sunday was the health fair. We were waiting at the clinic when Yared, Hareg, and Azeb arrived. We were suppppposed to be at the school. It did not matter, because the rest of the nurses and whoever did not arrive for over an hour. After we ripped pamphlets in half, Anisha took pictures and video while Cameron and I waited for people to go through the rotations. The people went into classrooms in groups of 10 and the different “teachers” rotated, I think. Then they went to the station where they took height, weight, blood pressures, heart rates, etc. After they did that, they came to me, Cameron, and Bereket, and we put their information into some computer program which told them what they should do to improve their health. The suggestions were like, “get more sleep,” “stop drinking alcohol,” and “stop snacking.” Near the end, about a zillion kids came in, wanting us to do theirs. They were waiting lunch for us, so we stopped at one o’clock and said that we would come back at two. They provided lunch for us (injera!) so that was exciting. Most of the people had not come back at two, so we wrapped that up pretty quickly and then came back to our room. Anisha and Cameron slept and I hemmed three pairs of scrubs.

Friday-Sunday, during which we eat injera four days in a row, and participate in the health fair

Well, tonight (Saturday) is movie night and the power is out. I used my computer today during Pathfinders, so I … just kidding, the power is back on. I was going to say I hope it came on so my computer could charge for movie night. Tonight is actually movie, popcorn, and candy night (popcorn because Anisha’s aunt sent us some, and candy because it is Halloween). Exciting, right?
Back to Friday. Friday was actually quite a busy day for us. We called Dr. Gemechu, who said that he would call us right back. We called him again over an hour later (he had been in a meeting). He said to go down to the clinic and meet the people there for the health fair on Sunday. Well, we went down, walked around with Mack’onay, and only saw two people we did not know (who seemed not to understand if we asked if they were here for the health fair.) So we went back to the room. Dr. Gemechu called at 1145, and said to go down again. I hoped it would not take long, because I was planning to have lunch at 12. There were 8 nurses there (plus Ado and Hulu; Dr. Gemechu’s wife, Azeb; Emmanuel; Daniel; Hareg and Yared; and the guy whose name I forgot…I know he does youth stuff). We met everyone, and were about to go inside for the meeting, but instead we all washed our hands and went inside. They had gotten pizza and soda! “Just as a snack.” Haha—lunch for me! The meeting was mostly Emmanuel talking about NEWSTART: Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunshine, Temperance, Air, Rest, and Trust. Azeb left early, but gave us a bag with cookies and something else in it (Anisha would not let rude little me look while we were there). It was so nice of her! Hareg called after she left and told us to take the whole pizza that was left. We eventually left, but by now it was getting late, and we were supposed to go grocery shopping because we were probably not going to be able to on Sunday. (Azeb had also given us Twix, Mars bars, and Snickers.) We went to Dr. Gemechu’s room to talk to them, and it was eventually decided that they would take us to town then. Cameron could not go, because he has a class from 3-345, but Anisha and I went with Abebe, Dr. Gemechu, and Azeb, then were picked up by Yared, and we went to the grocery shop where we usually go, got stuff we needed (except a peeler/grater, baking soda, and vegetable shortening). Then we went to the same produce stand as last time, and they gave us a free orange to try and a free banana. We like this produce stand! (Well, we will have to go somewhere else for okra and peppers.) AND WE GOT A PUMPKIN. Now, as soon as someone sends Anisha how, we can make canned pumpkin out of it so we can make cookies and bread and pie and yum. We also got mangos! Then Yared brought us back. We ended up giving into Stephanos’s cries of “Jenney-fehrr!” but before soccer, there was a music fest. Y-ob and Samson had us listen to some of their stuff, then I brought out my ipod and made them listen to Christian music, Spanish music, and country. The first song they put on was “That Don’t Impress Me Much,” which made me laugh. After I finished making them listen to a Spanish song, the guy who was looking at it asked if I had any country. I showed him my scores of songs, and he listened quite contently until we started playing soccer :-). I love how so many people here like country music! Dinner was the leftover injera and pizza. Yum. After dinner, we opened the cookies and practiced for special music.
Today I woke up, showered, and poured a bowl of cereal before I realized, “Shoot—Sabbath is pancakes for breakfast day!” I had to put the cereal back and whip up a batch of pancake mix. This time, we had eggs and baking powder, so this was the best batch yet. We then just waited around until someone came to get the piano and us for Sabbath School. Anisha and I sang “As the Deer,” with Cameron on piano, then listened to the Sabbath School (not that we understood much). Then was church, and I played “Shine, Jesus, Shine” on flute with Cameron on piano after the sermon. Hareg asked if we heard what the pastor had said, and I responded that yes, we did, but that does not mean we understood it. She laughed. Potluck time! Very first thing I noticed was the presence of BANANA FRITTERS! I was super excited. Why does food make me so excited? The injera and whateverelse we put on top of it was good, filling, and satisfying. Hareg now knows that we want to know how to make injera and the accompanying dishes, and plans to be present to translate when S’ike teaches us. Whoot. She also said she will teach us how to make banana fritters. Dr. Gemechu showed us the tree Cameron’s dad planted while he was here, and we said we want to plant ours by the clinic. We vegged out before Pathfinders, and during it we taught them three songs. Emmanuel used my computer to show the DVD (you cannot get a virus from a DVD, right?). It was a movie called “The Ten Commandments,” and was Amharic dubbed over English, so we could understand when the Amharic guy was not talking :-). We want to watch the Veggie Tales Jonah movie that Anisha brought. After Pathfinders, we came back home and read and napped.
We ate leftovers for dinner, and decided to make the guacamole pasta sauce thing for tomorrow for dinner and just put it in the fridge. Good decision, because the avocados were super old. We popped popcorn and ate Reece’s Pieces while watching Stranger than Fiction (Hanna, if you are reading this, I thought you of through the whole thing). I dressed up as a Nudist on Strike (MLIA) and Cameron was a superhero. Anisha was lamelederhosen and decided to be and Indian Giver. About halfway through, she decided to be pillow girl. Cameron sided with me on the fact that Anisha was lame. Anyway.
Sunday was the health fair. We were waiting at the clinic when Yared, Hareg, and Azeb arrived. We were suppppposed to be at the school. It did not matter, because the rest of the nurses and whoever did not arrive for over an hour. After we ripped pamphlets in half, Anisha took pictures and video while Cameron and I waited for people to go through the rotations. The people went into classrooms in groups of 10 and the different “teachers” rotated, I think. Then they went to the station where they took height, weight, blood pressures, heart rates, etc. After they did that, they came to me, Cameron, and Bereket, and we put their information into some computer program which told them what they should do to improve their health. The suggestions were like, “get more sleep,” “stop drinking alcohol,” and “stop snacking.” Near the end, about a zillion kids came in, wanting us to do theirs. They were waiting lunch for us, so we stopped at one o’clock and said that we would come back at two. They provided lunch for us (injera!) so that was exciting. Most of the people had not come back at two, so we wrapped that up pretty quickly and then came back to our room. Anisha and Cameron slept and I hemmed three pairs of scrubs.

Tuesday-Wednesday, during which we eat more injera!! and go star-gazing.

So we did not end of watching Mel, or drinking spiced cider Tuesday night. Cameron and Anisha had phone calls, so we just checked our email and went to bed.
On Saturday night we put a sticky note on Cameron’s door with a quote from the movie we watched (“I’m glad you came tonight”). Well, he did not get it until Saturday night when we reminded him why it was so funny. Then it was a true, literal roflcopter (just for you, Chris). I have a picture. I'm glad he eventually got the joke :-).

Wednesday night we did the same thing, except we put “I want that,” on it.
Wednesday day, we cleaned a little at the clinic, and then made labels for some binders for Dr. Gemechu. Class was okay, if not a little noisy. Anisha went like, 10 minutes over. Cameron did not have class. Afterward, we practiced for special music. Anisha fixed up the beans for dinner. They were still harder than I would have liked, but, then again, I like refried beans. The rice was…. well, I promised I would not mention. It still tasted good. Afterward, we made banana foster. Basically, you put butter and brown sugar in a frying pan, then put the bananas in there. It was pretty good, but I think I’m good with just simple banana and peanut butter. It was very nice to have a treat, though. Then we watched Mel. Terrible movie, and then WOAH we were TOTALLY not expecting that. Then it got bad again then WHAM!!!!!!!!! best moment EVER.
Today we called Dr. Gemechu to figure out what we were doing today, and he said he would get back to us. We thought he forgot about us, so we called again—he had been in a meeting. He came by afterward to tell us he had nothing for us to do, so I worked on lesson plans and stuff. We were all super hungry around 1130, even though we did nothing all day. The electricity was out, so I heated up the rest of the potato soup with the gas burner. Anisha had pb&j with marmalade (which she does not like at all), and Cameron ate cold beans and rice. Around 1230, S’ike came by. Remember how she was supposed to teach us this week how to make injera? Well, I think she misheard Dr. Gemechu, because she brought us a whole tray of injera, then came by with a tray of that spicy dish, the spinach dish, the potato and cabbage dish, and a green bean dish! We were super excited. Guess what we are having for dinner tonight? Maybe we can have Dr. Gemechu ask her again to teach how to make it. Now, we are just doing stuff until three. Tomorrow, Abebe is taking us grocery shopping in the morning, because Sunday we will be busy with the health clinic or whatever.

Teaching went better today. Well, the kids were better behaved than yesterday, but I think they understood less. It is frustrating when they repeat after you when you asked them a question, and you try to explain that you are asking them something, but they do not understand it. I love our routine. Teach, chill, “Jenney-furrh,” *ignore*, “Jenney-furrh!” *groan*, “JENNEY-FURRH!”, “We better go before they start yelling for Anisha.” “Anisha!” *we got play soccer.* Soccer was fun tonight. If Cameron is “dangerous goalkeeper,” then I am “bad goalkeeper.” Never mind, though, because when Alemayo switched with me, he missed a simple goal. We were all SUPER excited to go back and eat dinner—injera!!! Then, with tummies full of injera, misir wat, spinach, potato, green beans, and carrots, we made some spiced cider and went star gazing and read some Bible verses. We are all so lucky and blessed to be here. I think I speak for all of us when I say that God truly led us here, and is pouring out his blessings on us here. I hope we can show everyone here His love.