Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords
Friday, September 28, 2012
W'apow mu e, Joe took the kids to school. Then, we went to town. Joe dropped me off at Melcoms to do some shopping. He and…
W'apow mu e,
Joe took the kids to school. Then, we went to town.
Joe dropped me off at Melcoms to do some shopping. He and Martin went in search of mosquito nets. (A church in the States took up money during their VBS for mosquito nets for people in our church.) The man who said that he could get them in bulk never did. All of the places that had some a couple weeks ago had all sold out today.
I started out at Melcoms. Danny broke one of his drink bottles that goes in his lunch bag. So, I needed to find something different for him. I also found a couple things for Danny's birthday, which is coming up in a few weeks. I headed toward the market circle and found a couple more things along the way. I talked to Joe, and he said that they had not been able to find any mosquito nets. So, I decided to stop and ask at a couple pharmacies as I headed toward the grocery store where I was supposed to meet Joe. I found a pharmacy not far from Garden Mart that had some. We were able to get 54 mosquito nets.
After all of that, we stopped at the post office. We ate lunch at the snack shop at the golf course and then headed home to unload the car so that Joe could go pick the kids up from school.
When the kids were emptying out their lunch bags, Gilbert was telling me that he ate and drank everything in his bag. He said, "I was hungrier than a live elephant, Mom!" : )
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The kids had a good day at school. They were all ready to go play outside when they got home. We emptied the pool since the pump stopped working. The kids have been using the hose to clean it out. Danny came running inside to tell Joe that there was a snake in the pool. The snake went inside the pipe but came back out again, and Joe killed it. After they worked on the pool, they helped LF wash the car. They also got some oranges out of the tree. The tree is full of oranges, and some of them are starting to get ripe.
We usually save Friday's homework for Saturday. But, Danny and Bonnie wanted to get theirs finished tonight. Gilbert just has a poem that he has to work on learning.
I played a few games of Go Fish with the kids tonight. Everyone won a game; so, there weren't too many tears shed. Bonnie was the only one who cried. I told her we couldn't play any more if she was going to cry when she didn't win. She decided that she would rather play again than cry.
Nantsew yie!
Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie