I sent out a newsletter the other day, and I've been SO encouraged by all the responses I've gotten back! I guess that's one of the rewards of taking the time to write a newsletter - all the wonderful encouraging emails that get sent back to me! So thanks to you all who actually took the time to read my newsletter!
And a lot of you actually said that you read my blog, too, which is also pretty cool. I guess I'll keep writing it :) And I promise I'll try not to make it too boring. One of my goals with this blog is just to help folks at home get a little glimpse of daily life here, and to have a record for myself of some of the really, truly odd situations that I find myself in here! Because really, there will never be another place like this ever again! Jb at this point in history is completely unlike any other place ever! And what a privilege it is to be a part of it!
I've got 11 minutes before it's time to turn off the generator. I've made tea for the guards, I've fed the cat, I've made sure there is tea and coffee in the guesthouse for the morning, my belly is full of all sorts of wonderful food, and I've already had my evening shower. It was definitely a two shower day today - very humid. It's been trying to rain, and I need it to rain because my pumpkin plants are wilting. But it's just not raining :( And I keep forgetting during the daylight hours to water my little garden! Well, I remembered this evening whilst playing squash with Annamarie, but by the time I got home from that, it was dark again, and then I had to rush into the shower so we could go for our dinner.
I'm so pleased to say that my favorite Ethiopian restaurant, which is very close by my house, has a new menu with LOWER prices! How often can you say that a restaurant has lowered their prices?! So we went there tonight and man, it was just as tasty as usual, with just as much food, and a couple of dollars cheaper for each entree! A real highlight in my day, let me tell you.
One of the other highlights, much to the amusement of some of our translators, was that the truck came from Uganda! It has nothing for me on it, just a bunch of office stuff and personal things for a family that will move here next year, but I was SO happy to see this truck finally make it across the bridge! Poor Richard has been working his tail off for weeks to get all the right letters from the right people with the right stamps on it to get this truck across the border. And finally, today, it came rolling into the compound! I happened to be working on some computers in one of the translation offices (installing new fonts and keyboards), and before I realized it, I was squealing with delight. Yup, literally squealing, which I didn't even realize until the translators all burst out laughing at me!
Oh well... sometimes I wonder what those guys think of me - a bunch of middle age African men and me... They're all very fatherly towards me, which is quite nice. In some places, I know a bunch of older men would have trouble working with me, since I'm just a young girl, and what do I know?! But here, I think the fact that I can keep their computers going for them gives me a bit of respect! Plus, some of them have daughters who are my age, and I think they all feel a bit protective of me, too :)
Oh, look at the time... gotta go shut off the generator.
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