So, it seems that my evenings spent at Mitimiti will be my blogging time, since I do not seem to allow myself another time to do so. I’m sitting here eating orzo pasta with onion, tomato and cottage cheese. Ha! (I forgot the broccoli raab from the garden, oh well.) The weather is crazy right now!!! Wind and rain just started gusting up from the ocean onto the house. Crazy! Funny part is that I was going to call Dave to say hi for a minute…. But I have to walk outside to a pole that gets phone reception here…. Hmmmmm….
So anywho, things have been quite busy. Dave has been working on building us a ‘sleepout’, which really is a one-room house. It has ended up being 4.5 x 3 meters, with 4 reused windows, a pitched roof, which we will use to collect rainwater and a reused Remu door that is peeeeeerfect! We are hoping to be staying in it this weekend or when I get back from Mitimiti tomorrow. Wooo-hoooooo!!!!!
While he has been working on this for the past week and a half, I have been working on a painting, (sometimes) and making sure he and his brother are well fed. Bryan, Dave’s bro has been helping on weekends and after he gets out of work, which has been a huge help. Each day, I’ve been working in the garden, picking lettuce, making bread and doing other domestic things since I am not able to lift all the heavy boards and things they have been doing. We’ve been calling it our house for fun the past couple days, which is nice. We are excited to have a little space of our own. :)
I just got off the phone with him and he said he go all the windows in, cleaned out the inside and is going to start putting things inside so we can have a little celebration when I get back. Very exciting!!! Also, it wasn’t monsooning when I went out there, just very windy.
After work today, I drove about 17km to the nearest town called Panguru, which has a little shop and got some treats for the kids. Last week, I had told them that I didn’t want only punishment for bad behavior to happen, but also rewards for good behavior. I realized this morning that I hadn’t picked up any goodies for the kids…. I grabbed 2 boxes of these nut bars I had at home, but that only brought the total to 12 and there’s 19 kids. When I went into town, I was told that they had chocolate covered peanuts and those would be the cheapest route for getting the kids some treats…. For 8 small bags the total came to $12.50. At least the kids will get what they were told. I saw a couple of the year 5 students outside the shop, Nicola and Alicia and we talked for a bit. Nicola is a silly little spaz child, with a sad life and little attention span, she lives with her Grandmother who works at the shop and is not allowed to see her mother and sister who live 4 hours away in Auckland, (no idea why she can’t see them). Alicia is a nice, quiet girl. Both of them were so funny, sitting outside the shop. They were asking me if I was going to give out the chocolate covered peanuts one peanut at a time and I said, “No. You each get your own bag or chocolate covered granola bar.” Both of their eyes lit up and they were very excited about school tomorrow. This makes me feel good. Bribing is not so bad.
Sleepy monkey. Passed out while writing.....
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