Day Eight

Thursday we worked on the computers in the morning. Then we had lunch and were planing to have a class for the teachers again. We had made them e-mail addresses and were going to teach them how to send and receive e-mail. But the power went out at 1:30 instead of 6, WAWA. WAWA is an alliteration Tommy made up because of thing like this that make it difficult. West Africa Wins Again. It is very true, and we are learning that it isn't as simple is it would be back home. Since we couldn't have class we went around the school and took pictures of the kid's, the classrooms and the teachers. When we finished touring the school we started walking back to our house and saw that some one had gotten a halter for the horse. Some people were trying to put the halter on the horse but were not having much luck. Robert has had horses so he knew what to do. Within a few minutes he had the halter on the horse. By that time all the kids had gathered around to watch. One of the interns said they had never seen a horse until it wandered in. We got to the house and hung out there. At six the power came back on! We packed up our computers and started walking to the computer lab. Tommy was walking by and told us that if we went up to the lab we'd jinx the power but we said that if we didn't go it would stay on for hours and we'd shoot ourselves for not taking the opportunity. We got up there and worked on the computers and sure enough half an hour later the power went off; WAWA.

The front porch light was on when the power went out so when Tommy turned on the generator the light came on. We were all inside with the door shut so we did not notice the light. Daddy went to bed when the generator came on and the three of us up played Yahtzee. After a round Ray noticed "ant feathers" coming in the house from under the door. It had rained earlier in the day so that night the "ant feathers" came out. We had found a flyswatter that afternoon so Ray got that and went outside to brave the "ant feathers". Robert and I watched through the screen door. It was so funny. Ray would swing at the air and you could hear the thwack of the flyswatter hitting the bugs and the bugs hitting the wall. The bugs flew closer to the light and it was harder for Ray to hit them so he stood on a chair. He had been standing on the chair swinging at the air for a while when the security guard came up to him and said "if you turn off the light the bugs will go away". We sheepishly turned off the light and the bugs went away. It was quite an adventure.