Happy Birthday to my sister Annie!
We all got up at the regular time for during the week 7. 7:30ish. Danielle had already gone to the airport to pick up our two new teammates, Brittney and George. They are the children of Alex's mom's boyfriend. They are also Danielle's boss's kids. They are both still in college. While Danielle was at the airport, we all got ready and then headed to the school where we were going to do VBS for the W.A.R. children. There were a lot of us that were feeling pretty rotten, with sore throats and all. Carrie had to stay home. On top of that, I think we were all burnt out on doing children's ministry and weren't giving our all..... we were dragging. Everything just felt unorganized on our part. I felt really bad about it. It was like one of those hot summer days where you feel like your moving in slow motion and don't want to do anything. As a team, I think this is where we hit our wall.
We did a bible story (Michael did a very good job), had tea time, did some crafts, played outside, did another craft, read a story and colored. Lunch was somewhere in the mix in all that.
Danielle met us there with Brittney and George. Michael acted like he was a translator in which they believed..... for awhile. They must've been tired from that long flight. I know we were when we first got here and already jumped into things. Our first day here was somewhat a blur. We finished up with all the VBS for the day and then headed to "Home Depot" since they were now open. Don't fool yourself.... this home depot is not like the one at home in the U.S. We got some supplies for the W.A.R. project so we could start tomorrow. Half our team will be doing the VBS with the W.A.R. kids and half will be working on the W.A.R. factory. I will be at the factory the rest of the week since I will be in charge of that project. We weren't able to find all the supplies we needed at Home Depot, so we went around to about 5 different hardware shops looking for supplies. That was a frustrating experience and eventually saw compromises to the project. Hopefully everything will turn out well and not a mess..... as I can see it easily being that.
We got some corn for our celebratory dinner tonight. We invited Hannah, Sammy, Selam, and a guy we met that works at Project 61 in Korah. I can't remember his name.... we secretly call him TNE (tall no english). Dinner was a lot of fun to celebrate with them. We had baked chicken, mashed potatoes, watermelon, peaches, green peas, corn (which was HORRIBLE!....never again.) and for dessert we had vanilla pudding with cookies crunched up on top. It was like a Thanksgiving dinner, so we went around the table saying what we were all thankful for. Before dessert the power went out. It hadn't rained since Friday morning so it was kind of expected. We had dessert by candle light and then piled our dishes in the kitchen. No water! No cleaning!
All the translators went home along with our Korah friend and then some of us just went to bed since the power was out. Some sat in the living room and sang and played the guitar or played boggle by themselves (Alex), or read by candle light. I just laid on my bed and eventually went to sleep...... wooooo! Happy Fourth of July!
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