DAY #5

Sadly today did me in. I'm not use to manual labor so I only worked until 3ish and then went back to the Oasis Lodge. I went with the group going into town to do emailing and the bank. At town I went to the kombi station and found the right kombi (they all go different routes). Of course they need to wait until the kombi is COMPLETELY full/overfilled before leaving so we sat for about 10 minutes in the hot and crowded kombi. I got a lot of double-takes from the passengers getting in but they were nice. I slept from when I got to the Lodge until Wednesday morning. I missed the Community Dinner so I'm sad about that. I worked mostly at Mary's house. Mary is the spunkiest woman I've met. She still inspects every little thing we do, most of the time taking our tool away and doing the chore herself. We're not sure how old she is exactly but we did find out she has two sons in their thirties. We also found out she sells vegetables to earn her living. Anyway, Mary has to be in her 60s but can do anything and everything - shovel gravel, mixing cement, hauling full wheelbarrels of sand around. She is now one of my heros.




Working on Mary's house


Thabiso


Thabiso and Eva


Chicken just running around looking for food


Buying firewood

My roomate Martha is the Snore Queen (Martha, you totally are!!) and I'm trying different techniques to lessen the noise but so far it's not working so well. I have ear plugs and I put the air conditioner on but I still am unable to sleep. *YAWN*