March 21 "Things that don't work...."

Back to normal. For a day or two at least. Today’s theme is things that are broken/don’t work.

Item #1: The water heater. I couldn’t pull myself out of bed at 5 am to turn it on. While I was only twenty minutes late, T and I had to suffer the consequences with chilly showers. It ran almost an hour and a half though, so I hope it’s not broken! I hope it works tomorrow!

Item #2: We threw in our mountain of laundry before tutoring this morning, only to see that the dryer was once again broken. L We ended up using Mrs. A’s clothes line, but since that wasn’t long enough, we ended up using most of the rooms in the guest house to hang our clothes so they hopefully dry!

Tutoring was fun…we got to see our kids again! While T was running around with (surprise, surprise) visa issues again, I got to teach all ten math addition chants to the kids. J Then, after T and I split up our groups, I worked with my group on finishing their travel books they made. After tutoring came English class. It was short because their Bible study right before it went long, but it was still beneficial. There are ten sem student’s wives on campus, and we have 9 of them in our class. It was a pleasant surprise to see the tenth lady today, as she had off of work and still decided to come to class! That made my day. J And so did some of the ladies asking how the trip was. J And many people on the campus asked, too. J

Item #3: The clothes washer. I ended up with a hole in a pair of capris, stains on two shirts, and white detergent marks on two pairs of shorts. L

Items #4, 5, and 6: The bread, peanut butter, and mango. The mango had gone bad over our absence, so no mango for lunch. Shucks. And the peanut butter did not spread AT ALL on the bread that broke when you picked it up. So, instead of PB&J sandwiches for lunch, we had PB&J sandwich salads, which we ate with forks. Never done that before!

Afternoon brought preschool. You know you’ve been missed when all the students run out of the classroom across a field to give you hugs. J So cute. This definitely made my week! And they were so good in school today. J You just gotta love those days! After school while T and I were meandering the campus doing random errands, we found preschoolers holding our hands each step of the way. Cute. J

After preschool, it was time to get up and do something. I settled on a 12K bike ride followed by a 2K walk/jog. It was supposed to be more of a jog than walk, but biking followed by running feels funny, and I happened to run into two of the campus kids walking home from school at 17 hours, so I walked home with them instead. However, I do need to get in shape, because T and I might be partaking in an athletic adventure in a few weeks. I few more things have to fall into place first, but we’ll see….

Item #7: The tongs for our fish tonight broke somehow and I have NO idea how. We managed, but I hope they can get fixed tomorrow!

The afternoon and evening were caught catching up on things we missed while we were gone, a meal of fish and chips from Mrs. A, trying to figure out the dried laundry to put it away, and lesson plans for tomorrow.