Update

I was really tired all week long. Friday I spent the day trying to repair the fence around our coralle. When I started, two massive rotted fence posts were leaning and threatening to take down 20 feet of fence with them. When I finished, two massive rotted fence posts were leaning and threatening to take down 20 feet of fence and 40 shiny new screws that weren't actually holding anything together, along with three shiney new boards that looked good but didn't do much.


But I have now recovered and have recommenced my habit of singing random songs and dancing to my own music. It makes work more lively. This week I am back in the kitchen, and I am happy to be there! For the first time in a month, I don't even have a tipi to manage each night.


One interesting part of last week was Bernard Werber's Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge. One of my boys was quite enthrawled by it and loaned it to me for the week. I didn't read much, mainly because I was too busy and partly because it was in French, but I read enough.

It is an interesting mix of facts, imagination, and B.S., all presented in a very intellectual manner. I tried to explain to this young man the difference between what could be true and what is true because the book spent most of it's time in the first category but treated it like the second. I also tried to explain the importance of suppositions, and also how we can twist words to make something clearly illogical sound logical. But then, the fact that the author wasted two pages and lots of numbers to prove that 1+1=3 should have already made that point for me. No matter which formulas he mutilated, if I have an apple and you give me another, the doctor will be knocking on day 3. That was a fun conversation in French, at any rate.

On Saturday my friend Annalisa and I got it into our crazy heads to bike through 12 kilometers of hills and mountains to attend church Sunday morning. Fortunately Annalisa insisted that we try the route Saturday night to see if it was doable. We biked uphill for a long time but had to turn around when we reached Mars because it was getting dark. Yes, we biked to Mars. The next morning we opted for a church much closer that didn't require much uphill work and didn't mean traversing any major planets. It was a fine church, accept that neither of us understood the sermon very well. He must have had an accent or something.


This is the last week of camp, and it is already half over. I think I might actually be sad that the craziness is coming to and end :) Next week is a work week- there is a new dorm that needs to be finished, and 20 or 30 people will be here to work on it. I am not sure yet whether I will be on the work crew or in the kitchen. Willy wants me in the kitchen with him. Perhaps it is because I am such a fantastic chef or perhaps it is because his French is better than mine and I make him feel good. I think it is because he has a great appreciation for the artistic value of my dancing.


Ah, they look so peaceful! You would never guess what goes on inside :)




Looky where we ended up!