Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords
Thursday, October 18, 2012
W'apow mu e, While Joe took the kids to school, I was trying to unlock the deadbolt on the door that goes out on the back porch…
W'apow mu e,
While Joe took the kids to school, I was trying to unlock the deadbolt on the door that goes out on the back porch so that I could turn the dryer on. I could not get the lock to budge. The key started just turning in circles. So, I had a honey-do project when Joe got home. The lock was stuck, and he had to take the whole thing apart. He went into town to get another lock.
Neither one of the day guards showed up today. We usually have a guy who works in the yard in the morning and a different one in the afternoon, but neither one of them came today. So, our water holding tank did not get cleaned out today. We do have a reserve tank that still has water in it. I did not do any laundry today to conserve water.
I practiced some more songs on the keyboard today. I am looking through the hymnbook for songs that are in the key of C or the key of G for right now; I have the basic chords for those two keys figured out. I took piano lessons when I was young but switched to the clarinet in 5th grade. So, my piano skills are a bit rusty.
The kids had a good day at school. No one had homework tonight. The kids played outside until supper time.
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While I was sitting at the computer, Bonnie kept bringing crayons to me. The crayons were here students, and I was the principal. She was bringing one crayon at a time at first. Then, she brought a whole handful of crayons and said, “I told them that their line is nastiful, and they did not correct it!” I had to talk to the crayons each time before she would take them away. One of the “students” needed a spanking. She wanted me to pray for the “student” after the “caning.” I closed my eyes, but I did not really pray. She was satisfied with that.
Joe told me a funny story. When he went to get the car inspected last week, the inspector told him to turn his “trafficator” on. Joe had never heard that word before. He wasn’t sure what he meant. He was talking about the blinker. We thought that surely that was not a word. But, we looked it up and found that it is a British word for blinker.
Nantsew yie!
Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie