18 August 2007
17 August 2007
Well, we have 5 days of "work" left. I still am uncertain if I can ever have a real job again because "working" more than 8 hours a week seems impossible to me!!! Things are winding down. And are host mother is becoming sadder by the day as things will become quit quite when we leave.
Two weekends ago, we went to the next village over to our mother’s mother’s house (can you do that…two words with apostrophes in a row?!?!) The old lady (as she is affectionately known as turned 91. And she is still sharp as a tack and has a great sense of humor! I hope I am that funny when I am 91!!
Some excitement last week for us. Last Thursday was a holiday called Woman’s Day. [****WARNING A FUNNY JOKE IS COMING…MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE SHOVENISTIC but what can you do********] A day everyone should celebrate this ONCE A YEAR!!! (just joking ladies!!!) But anyways, Wednesday night I was told of the mission I was going to be assisting on with the host father and brother. We were going to the local farm to buy a sheep (for eating! as some family was coming to visit for the long weekend). So bright and early on Woman’s Day we head out to the farm in the new taxi (Our host father is back in business now. After giving his piece of crap car to the government for a R50,000 deposit on a new taxi, he finally received the new one. It is much BIGGER. He went from having a small van that can hold 15 passengers comfortably (20 uncomfortably) to having a 21 passenger bus that he can load with standing people and carry at least 30 people!) to buy the sheep. No luck though as the farmer had no small ones in our price range. So as we pull back into the yard, with the new bigger vehicle, we must avoid a tree. Papa then says to me, "we must cut that tree down!" By the time I returned 10 minutes later, one of the tree trunks of the tree was already down. So no slaughtering but I did get to chop down a tree on Woman’s Day! Friday was an uneventful day but there was promise for Saturday and a sheep. The sheep was delivered Friday night and we set out at 8 am to make meat. The sheep was for a small celebration for many things on Saturday. One was for the new taxi our father got, another was the little baby was turning 2 years old the following week, three most of the family was in visiting, and four it was a ‘last supper’ for us! We probably won’t see a lot of those people again. So it was a nice evening sitting around a fire and eating fresh sheep.
What a Woman's Day weekend, cutting down a treat and slaughtering a sheep!!!!
This week we have been working on assembling and teaching our school about the libraries that we were starting with you’alls help. (THANKS AGAIN) We delivered and taught some ideas on how to use the books to all four schools! It was exciting to see the things get set in place and we hope the learners will learn to be more literate and enjoy reading more!
I think that is all here.
Stay well
Adam
Well, we have 5 days of "work" left. I still am uncertain if I can ever have a real job again because "working" more than 8 hours a week seems impossible to me!!! Things are winding down. And are host mother is becoming sadder by the day as things will become quit quite when we leave.
Two weekends ago, we went to the next village over to our mother’s mother’s house (can you do that…two words with apostrophes in a row?!?!) The old lady (as she is affectionately known as turned 91. And she is still sharp as a tack and has a great sense of humor! I hope I am that funny when I am 91!!
Some excitement last week for us. Last Thursday was a holiday called Woman’s Day. [****WARNING A FUNNY JOKE IS COMING…MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE SHOVENISTIC but what can you do********] A day everyone should celebrate this ONCE A YEAR!!! (just joking ladies!!!) But anyways, Wednesday night I was told of the mission I was going to be assisting on with the host father and brother. We were going to the local farm to buy a sheep (for eating! as some family was coming to visit for the long weekend). So bright and early on Woman’s Day we head out to the farm in the new taxi (Our host father is back in business now. After giving his piece of crap car to the government for a R50,000 deposit on a new taxi, he finally received the new one. It is much BIGGER. He went from having a small van that can hold 15 passengers comfortably (20 uncomfortably) to having a 21 passenger bus that he can load with standing people and carry at least 30 people!) to buy the sheep. No luck though as the farmer had no small ones in our price range. So as we pull back into the yard, with the new bigger vehicle, we must avoid a tree. Papa then says to me, "we must cut that tree down!" By the time I returned 10 minutes later, one of the tree trunks of the tree was already down. So no slaughtering but I did get to chop down a tree on Woman’s Day! Friday was an uneventful day but there was promise for Saturday and a sheep. The sheep was delivered Friday night and we set out at 8 am to make meat. The sheep was for a small celebration for many things on Saturday. One was for the new taxi our father got, another was the little baby was turning 2 years old the following week, three most of the family was in visiting, and four it was a ‘last supper’ for us! We probably won’t see a lot of those people again. So it was a nice evening sitting around a fire and eating fresh sheep.
What a Woman's Day weekend, cutting down a treat and slaughtering a sheep!!!!
This week we have been working on assembling and teaching our school about the libraries that we were starting with you’alls help. (THANKS AGAIN) We delivered and taught some ideas on how to use the books to all four schools! It was exciting to see the things get set in place and we hope the learners will learn to be more literate and enjoy reading more!
I think that is all here.
Stay well
Adam
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