Someone commented the other night that they felt like a princess with the lacey netting draped around them at night, then Ben the intern going to Ethiopia, arrived and said the bed made him feel like Elton John and started singing Elton John songs – I think part of it might have been the 36 hour flight speaking. If you are wondering where the beds are we are currently sleeping on mattresses on the floor because the bunk beds that were here were so wobbly that we were afraid they would fall apart in the middle of the night. Efigenia and Felipe arranged for a man to come and fix the beds so they disassembled them and have been “fixing them” for the past three days – I’m trying to think of a logical reason why it is taking them three days, but there isn’t one. We should have done it ourselves.
I mentioned yesterday that we went to the orphanage in Tica and were greeted with a grand welcoming ceremony.
Felipe went around and introduced each of us and the head of the orphanage named Maria Felicidade related each of us to a scripture or something. Felipe introduced Dave and me as experts in management and administration and Maria Felicidade responded, “well, you are welcome here, so go ahead and administer away”. By the time Felipe got to the end of the line to introduce Ben, who had just arrived the night before and Felipe was at a loss for words and said, “This is Ben… he…is… uh… he… is … a master pump builder!” We tried not to laugh because even though Ben has never dug a well or ever built a pump in his life Felipe was totally serious.
