03 July 2009 – Friday
It was another morning of running errands and afternoon of being with the youth. Actually it might be said that I ran errands and Mary waited and read in the car. It just worked out that other than choosing cardboard for make props, I could take care of everything else by myself so there was no reason for Mary not to just wait in the car. It turned out to be a blessing because the escalators were being worked on and she would have had to walk up to the different floors.
Since we still did not have any internet, I once again went to Telkom. After a couple of calls and sending an e-mail I was assured that it would be on in 20 minutes. I bought some air time for the phone – a major expense that we did not have in Indonesia – and then some things we would need for making props for the road shows. The final stop was at Super Spar where I bought 20 kilos of worst for the party tomorrow. I was lucky in getting there just as they were making a brand new batch so they could pack it in bulk and it would be very fresh for tomorrow. We then went home so we could put the meat in the fridge and have lunch before leaving for Esikhawini.
Since the internet did not come on while we were home, we left early so once again I could pay a visit to what was becoming my favorite store in the mall. This time it took only one long call to find out for some reason the $125 I paid on Wednesday never got recorded to my account so they thought I was still past due. But since the lady who was helping me had all the record of my payments in her hand, after just 15 minutes I was assured that it was all taken care of and when I got home all I needed to do was re-set the modem and things would be fine. For some reason I did not feel as certain as she did that this would be so but there was not much I could do about it.
The youth activity at Esikhawini took a while to get going, but for the most part things went well with everyone – especially the boys – enjoying making swords. We need to go back and get some larger boxes for shields. The young man who is in charge of scenery started outlining the scene on a large piece – actually three pieces that we will make one – and elder Mokopatsa joined in to help him. We also ran through the show once and found we need to increase the talks, dances and songs or we will have a very short show.
When we got home I was happily surprised to see the green light that indicated we had an internet connection glowing brightly – ‘Oh ye of little faith’ came to mind. We spent part of the night catching up with e-mail, blogs, the Church News and part just relaxing.