"Perfectionist Pete"
Did anyone know what a perfectionist Pete Sasser is? One evening, we all sat down to journal in the common room. Many of us had been so busy that we had catching up to do on journaling. After hearing several rips of paper in about 30 minutes time, we all began wondering what was going on over there! Looking over at Pete, he had lots of peices of paper ripped out of his journal. It turns out he just couldn't get things perfect -- wrong date, misspelled words, etc... He had to have it just right, so he was ripping the pages out and starting over and over and over!!! This was quite fun to tease him about!
"Tall Man"
Inside the Traverse City children's dorm, we have been doing quite a bit of painting with heavy oil based sticky blue paint that quickly brought memories of the Smufrs cartoon. Mark was talking to Godfrey, our "boss" about our work when a small 4 year old child came up to Mark and began tapping him. Mark was covered in paint and was holding his wet paintbrush. After several seconds of being unnoticed, the child yelled "AYE -- TALL MAHN!! GIVE ME YOH BRUSS!!" Grabbing the brush from Mark, the child ran off to paint window sills like the rest of us. Mark is now known as "Tall Man." When Michelle pointed out to our boss that the 4 year old had the brust, he went running after him...
"Fan Lady"
Its pretty hot here, after all this is Africa. Cathy Norris was smart and brought a misting fan with her.. you mist yourself while fanning. Its quite cool. On the walk to the baptism at the beach, we passed many locals. They seem to have adjusted to the temperature in a way we "oboroni's" (this is what African's call white people) will never know. I think they must think it is entertaining to see us with our fans and wet rags, and hugamungous waterbottles. One man passing Cathy along the way laughingly called out to her.... "Aaaaaaaaaay!!! Faaaaahn Lady!!" (hey, fan lady!). We call out to her this way also, it was just too funny!
"21"
What's the first thing adults do when they meet a child? They ask the child's name and say, how old are you, right? On our first day here, many conversations went like this: "Hi what's your name. (Steven.) Oh its so nice to meet you Steven... how old are you?" Well you should have seen the looks on the faces of some of these children when they heard Lori and Cathy give their age!!! The children cover their mouths, their eyes widen and they exclaim "OOoohh!!" They think this is hilarious! Cathy told one child she was just kidding, she's really only 21. Now when he sees her from afar, he doesn't even greet her normally, he just shouts, "twenty-one! twenty-one!!!" I think he actually understands why this is funny.
This is all the funnies for now... will send more later. I also have a neat message to share with you about an experience we had today that was very gratifying. Talk to you soon! Love to all.
April
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2 comments:
April, Anita here --- I love your stories. They make those precious people with whom you work become real to us. Keep the stories coming. We love and pray for you. Anita and Tom
April, You are hilarious!! But it looks as though you have gads of material to work with! It must be great fun getting to know your teammates as well as the children there. We miss you all and can't wait to see you next week. Have a safe journey and know we are praying for everyone. Love, Becky
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