Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Not too much to say again!

I was completely excited because I had a relatively normal day at the office today!  I actually ticked two, yes, that's TWO things off my list today!  Whoo hoo!  And I didn't add a single thing.  Amazing.  Which is good, because we're getting a whole slew of visitors again tomorrow.  While I don't have to do anything in particular to "host" them, I still feel somewhat responsible for them, mostly because I just have a hard time knowing that people are hanging around in the guesthouse with no one to feed them and no place to cook for themselves.  I have compassion for hungry people.

That being said, though, I had a hard time this afternoon as I was in one of the local shops with a couple of our new folks.  There is a woman around who wanders around our streets begging.  She's been around for a long time.  In the past, I've tried giving her some bread or other bits of food.  But she refuses the food, and only wants money.  And for better or for worse, I have a hard time with that.  I just don't quite know what to do with that!  My friends didn't have any money more on them, but they had just bought some bread, so they gave it to her.  She didn't seem to want the bread that they gave her, either.  But they literally didn't have any more money!  It's one of those situations where I never know if I'm doing the right thing or not.  Should I just give the poor woman some money every time I see her?  I don't know.  She refuses food, so I really don't know what she needs the money for.  I can't really communicate with her, so I really don't know.  I just don't know. 

And on a completely trivial note, as I was watching the No. 1 Detective Ladies' Agency tonight, I saw that one of the cloths Mme Ramatswe was wearing on her head is the exact same material that my bathrobe is made out of!  How weird is that?

And I just realized that I have a new neighbour on the other side of my wall.  Literally on the other side of a very, very thin wall.  He just called out "goodnight!" to me.  Hmm.  This could be interesting.  I sure hope he doesn't snore!

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