howie’s halfpipe

at the moment the internet cafe we are at has no spare desks for me to put my laptop on so they have given me a chair and a desk outside on the verandah. all that is on this verandah is 1 chair, 1 desk and me and my laptop.

It just started pelting down with rain so i had to run back inside, lappy got a bit wet but he is ok.

yesterday tom and i got the night off which was fantastic! the revival meeting was cancleed because of rain.

this morning we visited a small school that is all just orphans, its a project of a few of the local churches. We played some games with the kiddies which was fun. it seems that older people especially people in powerful positions like pastors just ignore kids and push them away when they are standing too close. Infact when we arrived at the school all the pastors went and sat under a tree and didnt come near the kids excpet for the man translating for me and tom. we had fun playing games and making them laugh.

Its a very tribal culture here, the pastors are the chiefs and all important they get special seats and sodas and get to eat first. Its a bit hard to deal with sometimes cause tom and i are being treated the same way. tom and i asked today if we could hand out the food and rink to the kids at lunch time and the pastor said no. we where just supposed to sit in opur comfy chairs and watch. But in the ned we just sort of did start serving which was probably insultiung their culture by its hard sometines not to be a servant.

if this rain keeps up we may have tonight off too.