We've just finished our newly instituted weekly staff meeting. Richard was climbing the water tower to figure out why we didn't have any water in the tank, but we still met without him. In the background, I'm hearing the hum of the small backup generator, and the occasional "boom" of the UN blowing up some ammunition outside the city. Grace is painting her boards, and I'm just sitting here sweating :)
We've decided that we're the ones who get to start all the "systems" around here. So we've instituted Monday staff prayer meetings. So far, so good! It's quite exciting, actually, to be here at the beignning of a new thing!
This morning as we were going out our gate with Richard to go change some money and stuff, we met a woman and a few men carrying hoes and going towards our gate. Of course, Richard being the astute observer that he is, stopped to ask them what they were doing. Turns out ,they were coming to build a house in front of our gate! Seems the land that we use as a driveway to the compound had been given to this woman to use to build her house on. Of course, this is our only gate and our only way in and out of our compound, so we would be in a little bit of trouble if, indeed, this land belongs to the woman for her house!
It's a good thing MAF shares our compound, 'cause if we can't get out the gate, maybe they can send a helicopter in to rescue us.
Another thing we noticed today, as we were all following Richard around the compound like little ducklings trying to figure out why there was no water coming from the tank, was that the dirt around one of the houses was very nicely swept. "Nicely swept dirt", commented Grace. Not a phrase you hear every day in other parts of the world.
One of the sad things I saw today as we were out "borrowing" parts for the generator, was a group of children playing "soldier". They were all lined up in a line, marching with their "guns" slung over their shoulders. I think it's rather sad that such small children know how to line up and march in formation. They've seen much too much war.
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Blogspot is ok. I switched from blospot to livejournal because of your blog! So it would be funny if you started mostly using blogspot. Did you try linking to pictures on photobucket or flickr? I haven't tried yet - maybe I'll go do that now. . . :)
But I like LJ better now - think it's more snazzy as far as layout, and I like the fact I can respond to specific comments instead of all the comments showing up in a glob. . . and I can backdate entries, and manage entries and tag them so I can find them later, -- and the list goes on . . . :) But pictures, yeah, they should really make it easier . . .
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