Throughout this week I've been working more in the school, teaching geometry to one class and helping in another with similar material. I'm trying to minister to the kids and gain an understanding of what they've gone through in the past few months. Some are really struggling. Each day I hear more horrifying stories about the devestation of the earthquake, and it's hard for me to understand because I've never been through that. There was an aftershock a couple days ago that shook up a lot of people, but I actually didn't feel it. It was a 4.4 quake, I believe - Randall and Anita had a crack in their wall that was open and after the aftershock it closed up again. It's freaky.
I've been out to a number of places in the last week. It's extremelly hot here, but we still walk most places. I walked up to Peitonville a few days ago to buy some food. The markets here are crazy. Amidst the rubble there are people trying to sell produce and other goods. Some of it looks questionable. There were chicken legs sitting, stinking in the sun, covered with flies. You can buy so much stuff in the market, but some of it is of a worrisome quality.
Tonight there is a dinner dance party for the students, and I'm helping to prepare the food. We've been walking to different grocery stores and figuring out what kinds of food are in the country, what is cheapest, and what the students would best like. It's a difficulty because different stores have different things, and sometimes it's hard to find what you're looking for since everything is imported. Tony and I have been working on the dessert for the event over the past few days, and it's been a lot of work and great fun. Tonight the teachers are serving the students and we are cooking the food in Tony's kitchen. I'm going to help serve and I hope that through this we can show the students that we can still have a fun time in the midst of calamity.
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