“Kick-Ash” Mid-Week Recap!

Monday –
Fr. Michael brought over his fancy all-in-one DVD/Projector/Hard Drive-Modem Thingamajig (yup it’s most certainly a word), and played the movie “Blood Diamond.” I had already seen “Blood Diamond” but it was actually pretty interesting to watch it after being around the environment for a month. Monday Movie Night was out of control! We didn’t get out until after 11pm and…I’m going to leave it at that for fear of further censorship.

Earlier that evening, Fr. Donnie and I were on opposing teams for tennis. He’s been playing consistently ever since I got here and it’s really beginning to show. He’s becoming so confident, or dare I say cocky, that he’s even started trash-talking his opponents. (He may have left North Weymouth, but North Weymouth sure hasn’t left him!).

Tuesday-
Almost burned the house down. I inadvertently hooked the positive-charged wire where the negative-charged wire was supposed to go (as you can tell, I’m an expert at these types of things), creating a rather large spark that could’ve very well ended the 99 year-old Ndolelejii mission about a month before their centennial anniversary celebration.

Wednesday-
I spent most of the day working with Fr. Donnie’s research team and tying proverbs into the computer. When I came in from playing tennis, the priests were watching Al-Jazeera, which meant one thing: the power was not going to last long. I fell asleep earlier than usual, failing to grab my Ipod. I woke up at 4am because a hyena was really close to my window (not exactly the same soothing sound as the ocean). As I looked around, I noticed that there was a puddle forming under my door. When I opened the door I saw that the water was streaming out from the wall. Not quite at the urge of balling my eyes out (Miami Heat reference), I held myself together and mopped up the mess. During breakfast, Fr. Dan told me that this was the main source of our clean water, and that they had tried to fix the problem themselves a while back. So, I guess we'll see what happens! Finally, I went to the 10am Ash Wednesday Mass. Off to play tennis!

-Sean

P.S.
*Sean’s Path to Democratizing Africa Update:

Phase 1: Implement the “Hi-5” as an acceptable means of communication.
-Complete.

Next Up:

Phase 2: Convince kids that American football is WAY better than Soccer…This one may take a while.