Thursday, September 6, 2007

Today, I got up and finished doing my journal since I feel asleep doing it last night. I started taking my medicine for my tongue today and it doesn’t seem to be getting better, although earlier today it felt good. I spent a few hours on my computer doing my journaling and emailing some pictures and information to Heather. As I was leaving Heather and Janiel’s apartment I shut the door on Sonson’s thumb. He is a three year old that is always right behind me and I did not know he was there. He recovered rather quickly though. Then I went across the street to Sunlight Academy to talk with Roger, the gentleman who runs it about a power situation with one of his generators. As it turns out they must have gotten it fixed because we had power all night, which I was very thankful for. After that I had took s few more pictures and we all got ready to go swimming. Swimming is turning out to be more trouble than it is worth. The kids do not listen very well and are too hard to control when they are that spread out. We got back to the orphanage at 230 and called Erin to see when they were leaving St. Louis to pick us up for our ice cream outing. Today was Erin’s 24th birthday and she wanted ice cream. They arrived at about 430 and Roland, Erin, Soni, Rogard, Sergo, Mislan, Taylan, Abby, and one other girl whose name escapes me, and one of the pastors all went out for ice cream. It was really good although it took a long time to make because they don’t always have the machine on to make it. While we were waiting for it to be ready we went to the store and Sergo bought Erin some Russell Stover chocolates and you would have thought it was Christmas with how big of a smile she had on her face. After we all enjoyed our ice cream we had to go to the airport to see if a letter we were waiting for was in yet. As it turns out it was not and there is a good chance it will never be, because it was supposed to have arrived Saturday. We got back to the Orphanage at about 630 and said good-bye to the St. Louis crew and I went to my room to see if we had power. We did, HOORAY!! The children were all in the back watching the championship game in a soccer tournament that had been going on for a couple of days. I took my video camera back and filmed and took photos and chatted with one of the older boys about things. After all the celebration from the winning team and the trophy presentation, several of the guys and I went to one of the common rooms so that they could write a letter to Rachel that I emailed to her. While we were doing that it started to REALLY thunderstorm, I mean awesome lightning, thunder, and HARD rain. I loved it. Once they got their letters done and Roland helped me type them. I then took and bath and my medicine and now I am going to hit the sack. Think happy thoughts because I am going to try sleep audio learning with some Creole CDs. Peace