So I've survived the day! Phew. It was a long one. I'm looking forward to my episode of Smallville tonight... but I'll be so lonely without Grace to chat about it with...
Anyways, starting from this evening, we can add a new service to our list of services offered here in the guesthouse: after your haircut by Tanya, which takes place as you are seated on top of the septic tank, Jackie will clear the wax clogs out of your ears using my headlamp and a syringe. For some reason, we're all suffering from extra-ordinarily waxy ears, which aren't clearing themselves! So tonight was my turn to get the ears cleared out. Since Jackie had a mammoth wax clog cleared by Dr. K yesterday, she became my doctor this evening and cleared out a much smaller clog, but it's cleared all the same :)
Sorry for the disgusting details, but yeah... that's life around here!
On a crazier note - we almost got completely smoked by a police truck today. Due to a strange series of closed roads, we found ourselves on a road that was blocked off. We were the only ones on the road, I thought. So I stopped to wait for the guy to move the blockade enough for me to drive to the open road. As I was stopped... I looked in the rear view mirror just long enough to see that a brand new police pick up was screeching and skidding to a stop just a few feet from the back of our pickup. Why he didn't see us to stop earlier, or why he didn't just go around us on the wide open road, I'm not sure. Just another one of the perils of driving around here. I appreciate your prayers for safety as we drive around on the roads.
Just to give an example, in order to get your driver's license here, you take your car to a big open field. You show them that you can start the engine. Then you drive around a few plastic orange pylons in the wide open field. If you can do that, and succussfully stop your car, you are made the proud owner of a driving license. Yup. Scary.
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