Song: Shake it out – Florence and the Machine
About 20 minutes ago I’m on the phone with my friend Georgie
from back home and while I’m standing in my bedroom talking I hear the tin roof
start to crackle a bit so I assumed Elend was on the roof… like normal. I
noticed that it couldn't be Elend because the tin is crackling from not just one sot but throughout the entire house! Then
I noticed the ground shaking and I there were a million things going through my
mind! Should I get out of the building… will it hold up… Where do I go? I was
just frozen on the phone. The whole house was shaking and I noticed little bits
of concrete crumble off the wall. How much longer is this going to last? Is
this going to get any worse? If I go outside is that even safe since it is after dark and it is known around here that you stay inside when it gets dark out? I’ve felt earthquakes in Michigan before… but it’s
such a slight shake that if you’re not sitting or lying still then you would
never notice it. I’ve never felt an earthquake this powerful before! It never occurred
to me that earthquakes would happen along the Albertine Rift Valley where I
live. I suppose it caught me off guard and shook me up… ha… no pun intended. I’m
still a bit…. shakey :p I am NEVER living where these things happen all the
time. Give me my Michigan back! I think I may have cried if I wasn’t on the
phone with someone… I was all by myself. My Supervisors and the family went to
go visit their very ill brother in law in Kampala earlier this week and haven’t
returned yet so I was alone during this earthquake (other than being on the
phone). The kids were even gone at the school to eat supper.
After all of that excitement…. let us talk about another
first I had this week. I doubledutched with a jump rope! I am horrible at it and Irene (the 10
year old Ugandan we taught) is of course a natural at it. But I’ve never done double-dutch when I was younger… it was really hard but fun! After all
this time.
I’ve been really bored lately. A few days ago I taught some
little kids how to play tic-tac toe. They weren’t as excited about it as I was…
but in time they will realize how awesome of a game it is. I also tried to feed
the little orphaned goat that the grandmother here usually feeds… I mixed up
some milk and put it in a water bottle. I poked a hole in the top of a balloon
and attached it to the water bottle. I could tell the little guy was hungry but
he must have looked past my tricks and noticed that it was powdered milk. Sorry
I didn’t go milk the cow but this it was I’ve got! He could take it or leave it…
and he left it… so Elend got it.
Thanksgiving meal in 2 days with an amazing group of
volunteers… can’t wait!
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