A very busy weekend

School Uniforms

Two weeks ago Mesfin and Hiwot rounded up the sponsorship kids who need new uniforms who live in Addis. I met with them and measured them for either a skirt or pants and a sweater. There were so many different kinds and colors of uniforms that Tesfanesh and I had to go to the merkato to find the best deals on fabric. We also found a seamstress to make all of the skirts and pants for the children. I found a sweater store in the merkato and bought all of the girls’ their sweaters – they were out of little boy sweaters. I decided that I would just give money to the moms and they can find the sweaters. There were also a couple kids who had such obscure uniform colors that I couldn’t find it in the merkato; they would receive money as well. Well, this Saturday (Oct. 17^th) we were able to give the much-needed uniforms to the children. Of course something went wrong…something always goes wrong. Apparently the light blue sweaters that I bought for five little girls were the wrong color of light blue – who knew? So I gave them money to have their mom’s figure it out. Besides that minor problem everything fit pretty well. The kids were stoked to have new uniforms.

 

Random Thoughts

Weather – The weather has been really weird lately. One day it will be sunny and blue skies and the next there will be huge black clouds in the sky and be rainy and windy.

 

Big Black – Yesterday I saw two guys wearing a Big Black t-shirt. Maybe they were the same person I don’t know. I just thought it was funny.

 

Lion Zoo – I went to the lion zoo yesterday. My friend appropriately renamed it the ‘lion prison’ – it’s that bad.

 

Language – Aynalem likes to talk to me in Amharic even though I don’t understand a word she’s saying most of the time. I just look at her and say, “I have no idea what you just said,” and then she mimes something out and sometimes I understand and sometimes I don’t.

 

Solar Power – The lights on our gate are solar powered. Tesfanesh and Aynalem have never heard of such a thing, and one night they tried every switch but the lights outside wouldn’t turn off. Then I tried really hard to explain solar power to them. 

 

Parasite – I think I have a parasite again. Boo.

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