Yesterday morning early I was terribly industrious, cleaning my flat and doing some laundry, but then my plan of just staying home and getting lots of work done didn’t quite turn out that way. My friend Cornelia came by, which was nice, and then she wanted to go see Tricia Morrison (they’re the people who live in the building behind mine) and I wanted to borrow some DVDs from them, but then we had to wait for Tricia to come home, so it was almost 12h00 by the time I got home again and I felt like I had lost my whole morning! I had realised that I really needed to go by the bookshop and get all the necessary documents, now that the month was over, to have another look at the finances. So that was a fun, hot walk at 13h00 in the afternoon… I did relax a bit with a movie, but most of the afternoon and part of the evening was taken up with work. The only bit of “excitement” that I had was when I went to deal with the guard, absentmindedly only took a loose key for the back gate’s lock, and then locked myself out when the back door swung shut! Luckily one of the kitchen windows was open, so we had to tear the (nice, new) screen and then eventually got the other window, next to the door, open with the help of the broomstick, and could then open the door. I am just so glad the guard could help me and that this whole episode only took about 5 minutes.
This morning after church (which ended nice and early, I love it when Kent Woodrow leads the worship!) Dr Woodrow and I had a short meeting with 3 of our bookshop workers about the continuing problem of books and money disappearing, I really hope we can nip this in the bud. O yes, I have some good news – I’m still losing Aquiles as a worker, but at least he’s not leaving Nampula anymore! He had already regsistered in Montepuez and was making his plans to go there, when he heard that he had been accepted to the Universidade Lurio, the quite new Catholic medical school here in Nampula! I am so happy for him, because that’s what he’s wanted to do ever since he finished high school, but the educational system everywhere is just so corrupt and people don’t seem to get accepted on the basis of merit. Of course I am also glad not to be losing my translator/Portuguese checker… Praise the Lord!
