I can’t remember much of what happened the week of April 25 to April 30. It was super cold a few days (the low this week was 11. Quit laughing.) so most days started and ended with sweaters and socks and blankets. We didn’t leave the yard much due to English and Spanish school. I/we/some of us took a few walks for food and to get rid of energy and to see different scenery.
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Karlins arrived just before we left for Bible Study with Juan. Jonathan (one of the neighbor boys) was here playing just before we left and wanted to go along. The vehicle was too full tho. Afterwards we went to a new place in town for supper. It’s called La Meka. They serve what is said to be a middle eastern type of sandwich and Perla told us later that it’s named after the city Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Slightly interesting fact for me. This place moved here from a different town and the kids got to play on the same bouncy castle they played on not long ago at the old place. Although it must have been patched or something because it wasn’t flopping over quite as much as last time. Probably by far the most interesting thing that happened while we were there was the crunching and ripping sound the truck that was there made as it started leaving. That noise must not be in my brain range (mines more the hum of a sewing machine) but obviously was in some because suddenly a few people jumped up from our table with the cry of ‘That’s our van!’ Indeed it was. Eventually the driver of the truck must have realized something wasn’t sounding right and stopped, but not before one taillight of the van had been ripped out. The men went to talk to him and some of us calmly kept eating while they talked to the driver and tried to figure out what to do. They came back saying alcohol was detected on the drivers breath and that explained some of the factors, such as why he didn’t stop as soon as he heard the thwap thwap thwap. I felt slightly sorry for him tho. Maybe his brain range was also sewing machines, not lights ripping out of vehicles.
Sunday, May 2
We went to visit a Mennonite couple this afternoon. They’ve been friends with the missionaries for quite a few years, maybe because they speak English. I had been there with Eric’s a few times so I knew them and their place. Their youngest child showed up with his family of 3 little boys (including a super tiny one!) The grownups sat and talked and the children played on their cool bicycle/huge tricycle sort of thing. And of course she fed us cookies and kringel. We drove around to see a bit more of the colony and then stopped for pizza on the way home.
Monday, May 3
The school board (Karlins) and the children’s’ parents came for devotions this morning. And brought all their kids so we had a grand time singing. I had some songs picked that I sung in school back in the good old days and our small classroom fairly rang with our rendition of My Grandpa Had a Pickup, Kookaburra, This Land Is Your Land and many others. We sang a good half hour before we picked up our math books and the school board and parents and under aged kids climbed into the van and went to do some tract work and shopping and sightseeing. Our day was slightly messed up due to starting late and singing longer than usual and we had a bit of lunch at the end of our recess before finishing up work into the afternoon. The family came home around 1500 and soon after that Karlins left for home and a swarm of neighbor kids came to play.
Wednesday, May 5
I’m skipping lots of days because we’ve been kind of laying low and not doing much other then recuperating from classes and making sure everybody is well fed and rested up for the next day’s classes. But today, just after those of us who are the younger set of this household started classes again after lunch, my friend Sara messaged and asked if she could come spend the afternoon with me while her brother was teaching Spanish. Well of course! So we quit school when they arrived and we had a grand time making popcorn and cocido and brownies and talking to Rachelle and, of course, playing Sara’s favorite variation of Uno. I asked her if she’d like to come to church with us sometime and she was very excited about that until she realized we have church at the same time they do and her dad is the leader (I think) of that church and she’d need to get permission from him. So hopefully she can come sometime.
Thursday, May 6
Its turned cold again. It rained during the night and we woke up to no power. We ate by flashlight and started our school work by what little light shone thru the everlasting dark clouds. Eventually the power did go on and we set up a heater in the classroom to keep warm. The temperature was about 14 °C all day. I wore my runners for the first time since I got here.
Friday and Saturday
Cold but sunny. My app claims it’s 9°C but its not yet 0800 so it should warm up yet. We’ve got church to clean and beds to make and Abe and Anna and co. are going to arrive later as translators for the weekend. So I’ll just send this and update you more in a few weeks.
Hablamos,
Miss Addie
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