A Dark Tuesday Morning

We awoke this morning to darkness; the power was out and had been all night. By breakfast time, they had it back on. Thank goodness, we did not have to eat by flashlight. We got to the ice stop and waited for thirty minutes while Joel, our driver, bought and chipped our ice. We were entertained by the children standing around waiting to receive candy and gum. A second bus pulled in and they immediately said bye and ran for sweets from them.

The first thing we did at the work site was to form another brick line, of course. Even Kelci was catching and throwing the bricks at times. We moved to the interiors walls today and work was slow. It seemed that we spent a lot of time waiting for corners to be built or workers to check to make sure things were level. I think everyone was a little tired today. We were provided with entertainment by the team building next to us. They sang hymns while passing bricks. Libby had several of us playing a game of “I Spy” with her. “I spy something yellow, Libby.” A bobcat at the building site ended up in the jungle trying to get unstuck from the mud after dumping a load of bricks. It ended up going down the hill into the jungle and having to come back up by another road. We weren’t sure it would ever make it out of there!

After lunch, Michael from the other site came over to visit. Michael worked with us in 2005 in Subbi. He brought a picture that he had of the 2005 team to show us. He was very proud of it – like a keepsake. Dave had brought along copies of a group picture of the team and all the workers. Michael pointed out a few workers who still work for Watoto. He was excited when we gave the picture to him. Leta, a Canadian team stopped at our site with some information for Dave. Fred Kabubi had sent his cell phone number and his housemother’s for you.

Our afternoon at the worksite ended early today. Several team members needed to go to KPC to get money to exchange. While waiting at KPC for everyone to return to the bus, Kelci and I saw Joshua with baby Philip in the parking lot. We had another good visit with him. I informed Andrew, that he had big shoes to fill on Safari. And then we went to do some more shopping. We arrived back at the hotel with barely enough time to clean up for dinner at 7:00. Tomorrow will be our last full day on the work site – and will be a busy one to get everything done. Pray the rain stays away for one more day.

Written by Terry Glover