7 hours of delay in ethiopia leads me to being in a swanky hotel in london writing this post in the "internet room". maybe one day i'll have a house that has an "internet room". no, i probably won't!! anyway, i digress.
at the end of the last post i said i would talk about chicken so here goes. when brandon and i and this other guy named normand went up country we went out for chicken. now i know what is going through your head...what's the big deal about that? well, you go and "preorder" your chicken in the afternoon...there is no electricity where you eat the chicken...the ambience is set by a flourescent light bulb run by a generator. the chicken comes in large pieces that you eat like a barbarian...every guy i know would love this experience. the chicken itself is great and you eat it with this sauce that is good too.
this past week, brandon and i were driven around by a very nice burundian man who without the holy spirit and the protection of God would have surely killed us both. we drove to many health care centres most of which did not have mattresses, let alone medications, or bandages etc. etc. etc. when asked about this i honestly don't know what to say. one man asked me what those places were like in comparison to canada...that is an unanswerable question at this point. if i ever hear anybody compare the Canadian health care system to a third world country again i think i'll scream. oh yeah, we also saw many churches, primary schools and secondary schools.
the highlight of the week was when we visited this one particular village. the leader of the place and all these others leaders met with us. we got to sit on the greatest couch i have ever seen. it would actually do it injustice to describe it. it was a lovely shade of green and had these crocheted doilies on each seat. the doilies are flourescent yellow and pink. brandon was wearing these pants that had velcro closures on the rear pockets. when he stood up he took the doilie with him. it was one of the funniest things i'd seen for a while. so there we were with these people who i couldn't communicate with and we laughed together. i loved it!!
finally, on wednesday afternoon we met with the bishop of Hope Africa University. they have a nursing program there. after this informational meeting i found myself agreeing to an interview with the board of directors the next afternoon. it looks as though i'll be exploring options about teaching in the new year in Africa. what is happening to my life?!
