24 August 2011

so the last few days have been somewhat quiet actually, interspersed with the occasional moment of chaos, of course.

organized travis' truck monday, and while it's not completely finished, it's not half bad. went up to the school yesterday and helped pepe and wilson continue work on renee's new office. stopped by hands and feet to drop off donations from the team, including a brand new guitar that they had brought for the kids. it was perfect, too, because they have a keyboard for the kids, but no guitar yet, and some of them had been asking about one. glad to see it will be put to good use. :)

headed back to militone for a while, played some soccer with nahomie and romy and aj, and watched the ocean for a while. it was literally washing right up to the beach perimeter wall - not really high or anything, but the highest tide line was right at the bottom of the steps. crazy! no church because it was raining(ish), so back to kai militone for movie night with Kera. we watched August Rush [great movie, by the way], and then not more than 10 minutes after, just as i was going to sleep, Kera comes running out of the bathroom in the dorms, literally unable to make complete sentences. all i got was 'spider' and 'bigger than my face'... translation: there was a tarantula on the floor next to the toilet in the first stall. after much hyperventilating (mostly on kera's part ;) and general freaking out, we woke up marieyve, who came to our rescue. she initially wanted to kill it with a sandal, until we showed her that it was way too big for that. her plan of attack then was to chase it out of the guesthouse with a broom, and then to throw rocks at it until 'fini'. however, upon inspection this morning, no dead tarantula was actually found out on the rocks, so this episode might have a sequel in the future... let's hope not, though. :)

today thus far has been spent fixing renee's broken printer (which works now!) and working some on the new office again. however, today it was just me and a few of the kids, so "working" mainly translated into kid management and keeping small children away from power tools. headed back over there this afternoon to attempt to get a little more work done today, now that the rain has stopped and hopefully the kids are calmer...

to Him be the Glory!