Day Fiveteen

Thursday while Ray taught class daddy and I went on errands. We went by the house to pick up some things for VOH. Daddy was planning to go the VOH that night and come back Friday. After we picked up thins we went to the airport to see if my bag had come in. The lady at the desk was so nice! We told her we were looking for our bag and she said to go on back to the baggage room and take our time to look through the bags. They had just gotten 64 new bags but none of them were mine. We did find one bag that looked just like mine but it had a lock on the zipper and it had several bars of used soap in the outside pocket. That made it even more disappointing than not finding my bag at all. And the bag that was rotting was gone. Daddy said that he would be embarrassed to pick it up if it were his. We asked the lady to look on the computer to see where our bag was but she said that BA had stopped using the computers and were just putting the bags on airplanes.

On the way back from the airport the driver, Peter, stopped at a couple of shops to get some medicine. At one of the shops Peter stopped at daddy and I got out to look. We got some chocolate. We thought the driver had been told that we wanted to go by an electronic shop to get some adapters but he hadn't. We didn't realize till we were almost back to HCC so we stopped at some shops. None of them had what we were looking for but they would tell us of some other shop that might have it. We tried four places and then gave up.

Here when the is the roads are backed up vendors walk by the cars to sell just about everything; cokes, food, books and more. On the way to the are market one of the interns introduced us to plantains. Plantains are like bananas but the y are longer and fatter. The plantains they sell on the street are thin sliced and fried to make chips. They come in two flavors, yellow salty ones and brown sweater ones. While we were out looking for electronics we got some plantains to munch on.

Peter got a call from someone at HCC wondering where we were. Daddy told them that they should go on to VOH without him because he wouldn't be able to work at VOH without the electrical stuff. We got back to the school at 2 and had a late supper. We didn't get anything done. The only productive thing that we did was we got some chocolate.