Day Two: Part Two

Sorry. I haven't really forgotten about you. We're almost at the end of that paint project that you came to help with, and it's more or less taken over my life for the last month or so.


Thanks for coming out today, though. Having the extra set of hands to help paint was really nice. Bekah is very much a questions person, so I'm sure that she knows all sorts of things about you after half a day of working together. If it weren't for the fact that she has a one year old and a two year old at home who can only be entertained by someone not-mom for so many hours at a time, she would have stayed all day to help us. In this case, the crazy interns aren't the only ones who like having a big project to work on.

I think that her and Jason are almost more determined to get this thing finished before the teachers come back next Tuesday than even any of us are -- which is saying something, because there is a lot of stubborn and determined on our team. Lol.

Annelise (the daughter of some South African missionaries who have been here working with the school for quite a few years) also came out and helped us. She's a good worker -- when she isn't totally bored from spending all day staring at the same dark blue paint -- and she likes coming out to paint. When you're nine years old, any excuse to play around with thick gooey substances is a good way to spend a day. Lol. (We even managed to get most of the paint off of her face / the rest of her before sending her back to her parents... :D)


You weren't quite as lucky in the matatu department on the way back to the house, so, welcome to the land where seats wobble, sliding doors don't quite close all the way, and it isn't anything abnormal to get a glimpse of the road through tiny holes in the floor. :)

They may look a little sketch on the inside -- something about the neon orange dashboard combined with the pale pink interior and the old school velvet paisely seat covers is just a little...special -- but the drivers know what they're doing. If you ever took the time to glance out the window as we went, you probably noticed that they have an amazing ability to dodge goats, donkeys, pedestrians, potholes, etc without slowing down significantly. :P Think of it as a twenty shilling kiddy roller coaster.


Now that we're back at the Witt's house, we're going to eat dinner and just hang around for the evening. Tomorrow morning we'll go to town and you'll get your first real glimpse of town proper.

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