I wanted to blog for the past few days, but every time I sat down again, something happened. Either I, um, er, well, fell asleep, or there was no internet or someone else was online to chat with... so I didn't get around to posting. I don't have so much to say, really, though.
I had a mini-vacation on Sunday :) I went with an American friend (who works for the main church here) to the swimming pool! They used to charge $25 per day per person to use the pool. That was a bit outrageous for me to pay. So I never went - only once did I go, when they had a special promotional day for women, when it was free! But now they've dropped the price to about $8 per person per day, which is much more reasonable. So we went out in the morning and stayed as long as the weather allowed us. It was SO nice! A few of our other friends were there, so we spent lots of time just talking and swimming and drinking some Coke. It was such a nice relaxing atmosphere, and I didn't even have to drive out there - my friend picked me up in her air conditioned Prado! It was just so nice to spend some time with friends again.
This particular friend that I went out there with has been around for nearly two years, but I just started to get to know her before I left to go home for Christmas. Thankfully, she's staying on here for at least the next 9 months, so it's nice to know we still have some time to actually be friends, rather than having to say good bye to yet another friend too soon!
On the way back from the pool, we stopped at the Syrian bakery, which is owned by Syrians, but run by Eritreans. It's the only place in town where you can get proper pastries. So yummy. And it's just fun to chat with the Eritrean woman who has quite an interesting pastry-packing method - but it works!
Today, I also stopped at a different bakery to buy some bread. I took one look at the guy who was selling the bread and made a guess that he was Eritrean. So I greeted him in Tigrinya... and you should have seen the look on his face! He was completely flabbergasted that I knew his language. Of course, once I greeted him properly, he promptly started spouting off something that I have no idea what it meant. But he was so happy that I could at least greet him. It was great fun! I did get enough of what he was saying to hear something about marriage in there... so I steered clear of any misunderstanding in that whole realm!
Today I also got some things ready for someone who is coming to visit me tomorrow! Someone from my home church has been working in a neighboring country, so he decided to come up here and see what this place is like for a week. Should be fun to have a guest around - though I really have no idea what he's going to think of this place, or if he's going to be bored out of his tree or what... So I hope this visit goes alright! I've been trying to think of a few things to do to keep him busy, and I've tried to get a lot of work done in the past few days so I can take some time to go out with him, too... just not quite sure where to go out to... Anyway, hopefully in the coming days I'll have some adventures to tell you... just hoping for not TOO many adventures...
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