Today was a CIRCUS!!! Ana came this morning with 4 boys and moved all the heavy stuff out of the office. We were trying to decide what to take back and what to leave here. It will be hard to work from two different offices. I need my files and I’m afraid I will never have what I need when I need it. By the time we got into town I had a head ache. We needed to set up an office there where I could use my laptop and I needed it hooked to the printer. Alan has the Humanitarian laptop and it needed to be set up too. We had to wait around for the technical staff to come and help us and the air conditioner in our office wasn’t working. By noon I was half sick. My head ache was getting worse by the minute. At 12:30 we left to come home and get something to eat. I drank a coke and that helped.
Maopa, the Home Economic teacher here, was having a fashion show today to show off the work her students had completed. I promised her I would go, so I did. It was good, and the kids had done an amazing job on their projects, but it turned out to be an assembly for the whole student body. In Tonga, the kids don’t clap to show their approval, they scream and yell --- at the top of their lungs! I thought my head was going to explode! When it was over, I went to the office, checked the emails and went home to lie down.
By dinner time I was feeling a little better. We went for a walk and the fresh air helped. I survived the day.
