Try everything… do everything. Wed., 11/3

Let’s see…  another sunny day began with a lot of us doing laundry and hanging it out on the communal 

Bob & Chad

clothes line (for the whole guest house—there’s more people than just us staying here).  Clothes are dry in an hour or so; even jeans.  Then we were off to hang curtains, paint, collate, and print as usual.  Our projects at the seminary are coming to an end.  The place looks so much better than it did!  Pretty soon, I’ll have some “after” pictures to post here.

Some of us walked down to some shops and an outdoor “barbeque” place to get lunch.  Because we want to try everything, we got some pastries, the special at the café, and meat from the barbeque place.  We weren’t wild about any of it, but we tried it!  The meat was pretty tough, but the flavor was good.  The special—with a long, German (I think) name, turned out to be chicken and rice.  The pastries were—weird.  We decided that’s why people don’t go out of their way to find “African pastries” at home!  But it was fun tasting it all.

The after school program went very well for us craft people today.  The kids were quiet and cooperative for crafts and Julie’s lesson, and they liked the bracelets with the beads wi

Myron & friends

th 5 colors.  But they were a little harder to contain when they got to Chad & Myron, who had a challenge teaching them Capture the Flag.  Betty picked up a dress she had made here… I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m looking forward to it!



Kids at the after school program



Julie & one of "her" babies.

Chad handing out lollipops, or suckies as they say

The day before, Julie had mentioned to our new friend, Hannah, that she loves holding babies.  Hannah said that she could take her to see some families where she could hold some babies.  So, Hannah came to meet us at the after school program to get Julie hooked up with some babies.  Chad and I (Lisa) decided to tag along.  Hannah took us back some crazy, rocky, rutted, dirt roads up into another tin-hut area called Hakahana.  We visited with two different families and Julie got to hold babies.  She was in heaven.  Chad passed out lollipops, and the children even sang some songs for us (in English).  We then left Hakahana and stopped in to see Hannah’s friend, Nova, and her baby, Matthew.  Hannah met Nova at a restaurant where Nova is a waitress.  They became such good friends that Hannah was there for Matthew’s birth and Nova asked her to name him!  (I love background stories!)

Nicole & Brian made pork chops for dinner and Hannah joined us as our guest.  Wayne did our evening devotions.  We are all usually wiped out, and head off to our own flats or up to the office computer to send emails after devotions.

By the way, I may not have time to do a post tomorrow.  We are going to see "the Dunes"tomorrow, which is about 4 hours from here.  But I'll catch up on Saturday!