Quote of the day: “The soul is healed by being with children.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Journal by: Lisa Krieser
Our last Tuesday here at Senchi Ferry was purely routine for the 5 of us. Esther drove us in two groups to our respective schools. The Junior High is testing, so Nancy, Angie and Lisa didn’t teach today. All 3 of them graded some multiple choice tests and helped hand out test papers. Julia and Katie went to the pre-K classroom once again, but worked on animals today.
Walking back today seemed hotter than usual, but I think it was all in our head. We all met up again for lunch where Esther joined us as well. Bless is doing a great job of keeping us all well fed. After lunch Nancy, Angie and Lisa helped Amo and Esther separate all of the school supplies into 5 piles-4 piles for the different schools and 1 pile for the library. There was a considerable amount of supplies to divide.
We headed to the library for our usual reading session. There wasn’t electricity there today, so students couldn’t use the computers and we couldn’t feel the breeze of the ceiling fans that usually run at high speed when we are there. We were all ready to go when 4:00 rolled around.
We walked back to the guesthouse with Amo and our usual entourage of 3 students who walk with us. When we got back Julia went to study, Angie and Lisa went looking for A/C and Nancy and Katie ventured to the local Internet café. At dinner when we asked them about the Internet café they confessed that they might have hitched a ride there instead of taking a tro-tro. They weren’t sure what mode of transportation they were on. They were both laughing while telling the story. They said they definitely came back on a tro-tro that left them off up the road a little ways when everyone on the van yelled at the driver that they both wanted off. Their version of the story is obviously funnier when they tell it.
Today was a good day. I don’t know if the realization that this is our last week has truly hit us yet. I will truly miss the people I have spent the last 3 weeks with. I think we are all going to make the most of the last 3 days we have here.
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