Friday, April 3, 2009

It was a joke!

In case some of you haven’t figured it out yet, the email about me winning money by finding the gold coin, and Wyatt’s class getting locked in the closet, and having to wear masks because of the red ants IS COMPLETELY UNTRUE. It was just a silly April’s Fool’s joke! How was your April 1st? Did anyone pull a prank on you? We had a few. My Mom tried to get me to believe that they painted our house raspberry sherbet pink. UGH! I am so glad that was a joke. Danny tried to convince us they were having baby #2…Ha! What a day.

I just got done playing basketball again against the B team girls. That is so much fun! Yes, it has been quite awhile since I was on a basketball team, but I really enjoy it. Each time I get a little bit better. Garth even played against the B team boys today. His very first time EVER playing an actual basketball game. And he did very well. I was impressed.

This weekend we have an Indonesian guy staying with us. He is part of a program called Titip. Missionaries here that are working in that program are teaching the Indonesians English, and part of their practice is for the Indonesians to live with Westerners for a weekend and listen to their English and experience some of our culture. The man’s name is Herild. He is very nice and is down in the gym watching basketball with Garth.

Tomorrow Garth is taking most of the dorm kids to do the Pipe Walk. I was in the kitchen trying to get all the food ready for them to take. Let me just give you a sample of what making sandwiches for around 20 is like. First off, you make all the bread. Then you cook up maling (it is like Spam, and it is all we have for lunch meat right now), I looked all over for cheese even in Abeh which is 45 minutes away-no cheese, so skip that part. Then make your own mayonnaise, set some mayo aside to use in making ranch dressing to help the sandwiches taste a bit better, make your peanut butter, unless the stores have it, then you can buy it and save yourself some time. There are mainly two kinds of jam to choose from, strawberry and pineapple, we picked strawberry. Then, make the sandwiches. Doesn’t that sound simple? Ha ha. It is not so bad when you are used to it. Isn’t it funny how different things can be from one side of the world to the other? I wish the world was flatter or smaller so I could just walk around the corner and bump into you.

Love and miss you all-
Rachel

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