The first two days have been terrific — students are thrilled to be here and very interested in learning English! Such a refreshing way to teach!!! Only seven girls in this first year class, but two are from Guala, a place in the Bush where I spent a week two years ago. They both were happy to see me, which has been fun!
Anxious to learn!
Guess I will tell you a story from Saturday. I began a load of wash, then went to the office, only to find out a few minutes later that there was no power. When I returned, dreading to face a washer full of half washed clothes and soaking water, believe it or not, it had already done the first spray rinse and spin, so when I couldn’t feel any soap at all, I said, “Thank you, Lord!”, and put them out to dry. So what if a little soap is left because of not having the full tub-rinse cycle! Know that will gross some of you out totally, but I am thankful to have a washer at all, so a little soap can’t be that much of a problem!!
Just for the fun of it, I will tell you a food story, too. Saturday dinner was quite an adventure. Didn’t have the brand tuna from last year, so I just bought what was there. When I opened it, it looked like black dog food. I valiantly tried to eat it, but after a few mouthfuls, I couldn’t gag it down. Hardest part was disposing of it! Thought of just putting it outside, but decided I didn’t want a full-blown cat fight under my window, so had to come up with something else. Walking to the food disposal hole in the ground wasn’t in the cards, so it went down the toilet. Oh my! Wasn’t sure the stove would light, but I did it after only three matches — a record, I think. So I had a cup of that dried chicken soup I found last year and it was really good. Also — I found REAL RITZ crackers in Best Buy which turned out to be a good addition to the soup meal. Then I finished the pineapple from Thursday night.
If some of you, (I won’t mention any names, Grace and Cheryl), are not completely turned off by now, I will try to make sure I include something else next time. But believe me, I am doing fine. Even had a pizza tonight, made by a cute girl on the Guest House staff. Of course, it contained only veggies: onion, green pepper and carrots! How’s that for different? But I ate half of a 12” pizza, which, by the way, cost only $4 for the whole thing! Pretty cheap meal!!
Enough… right????????
Love hearing all about your adventures! You have the most wonderful attitude–I know you are already blessing the folks you are working and living with. Keep the terrific posts coming, Kay!
There’s no one in the world more positive than my mentor! Thank God I was blessed with you and can still follow these tremendous stories of yours!!
LOL! I won’t be impressed until you eat insects
I don’t think that will ever happen Cheryl!
Hi Kay, I was NOT grossed out. You did the exact thing I would with the “dog food” tuna. I would have put it down the toilet. I wouldn’t have put the same thing on the pizza that you did, but I never do anyway. I would have asked for a plain cheese pizza. Does such a thing exist there?
Glad things are going so well for you! C. H.