Just Another Week

Well, TownDay was just what I expected. A ton of people, lots of loud music that changed drastically every block and a half, and a lot of food. The celebration takes place on Main Street which is right outside our front gate. We could hear the music from our house easily. We walked up and down the street and then went back to the house so we could eat where it was quieter. After that Claire and Dan went back out. I decided to stay in and get some work done. About half an hour later they came back, and Dan decided to head back out on his own. Claire and I sat and drank a fruit smoothie while looking at my Pinterest boards. After a little while we hear Dan come back and said he had some people with him because someone cut their foot on a broken bottle. I guess I am glad I got recertified in First-Aid before I came down. I mean, I know what to do, but it is always nice to have a little refresher.

This week has been pretty quiet. Nothing too crazy has happened as far as I can remember. The people from Georgetown ended up not coming on Sunday so Dan cancelled the choir rehearsal and decided to make cookies for them as a thank you for all of their hard work. He did pretty well. They made about 80 cookies (after some of the cookie dough was eaten by those making the cookies) and they were all gone by Wednesday morning. I joined the choir for the first time in rehearsal on Tuesday. I am playing bass guitar for one of the songs they will be doing in the choir festival in two weeks. It has been scary having to learn a new instrument (in alternate tuning) so quickly, but I am catching on really quickly. They are sounding awesome, and I think they will do wonderful in Georgetown. I will also be singing with them because there is only bass for one song, and I would rather not stand on stage awkwardly for the other song.

We got to Skype with Eric on Monday. That was really fun. In all the email communication we have had back and forth I have been able to hear his voice and personality in my head, but it is so much nicer to see his facial expressions and actually hear his voice! It sounds like we are going to make this a weekly thing now which will be helpful to get things done a little quicker. All three teachers were commenting how weird it was to be seeing his office that we got to know so well in our short three days of orientation in Minneapolis, but that is what makes it so fun! I would love to be able to Skype with more people, so please feel free to add me so we can talk! Ninety percent of the time if my computer is open Skype is also open (unless I am over at the academy).

Claire has had many more cooking adventures this week, and Dan and I just stay out of the kitchen. We will be having a cooking day sometime soon so she can teach us how to make the things she has been learning. We have had some may people bringing us food or teaching Claire how to make food that we have run out of space in the fridge and we have no more containers to put things in, so last night we had a “eat all the things before all the food goes bad” meal. It was crazy. We had a very random meal to say the least. I think we will only have to have one more dinner like that before we can actually start cooking again. That will be nice. Leftovers get boring after having them for so long.

We just had new kitchen cabinets put in today (Friday). I forgot what it was like to have workers in the house. I put up with it though, because we finally have a mirror in the bathroom! We have some cleaning to do before we can put away everything in our kitchen again. It is nice though, because it now looks like a fully working kitchen. They built us a table to go between the fridge and the stove that houses the gas tank, has a drawer so we can store utensils (yay!), and a counter top. I think that was the most exciting thing in the kitchen. We no longer have to do 800 laps in the kitchen from stove to counter in order to fry plantain chips. It works a little better now to have all three of us in the kitchen. Who knows, maybe Dan and I will start joining in on the kitchen adventures from now on!