Kim Reaves’ Blog

Wednesday

Hello!

I hope everyone is doing well back home. Today Ashley and I are giving our presentations for inmed at the doctor’s meeting. We are both done with them and ready to present. Tonight we are planning on taking the entire group of student ( all 8 ) to Coco beach for dinner. We have been eating in the last few night so it will be fun to get out and about. Yesterday was spent at the mission house. Because Ashley and I both tested positive for Malaria and weren’t feeling great we stayed in bed to rest. Tina, the secretary as well as David came by to check on us. Vida also had us get up to eat lunch and checked on us through out the day.  We were both just very tired but after a few doses of the medication I think we are both feeling better. We should be fine by the time we leave and there is not reason for those of you back home to worry.

Interesting things that have happened since Monday:

We ran out of water again. They had to call a truck to bring water and we also ran out of drinking water so that meant we had to purchase lots of the bags of water to drink. They are about 1/2 liter and cost 5 pessaw (less than 5 cents in the U.S.) They taste a little like a plastic bag but with crystal light or something with them they are fine. Dr. Akosua is not a fan of the bags of water and suggested that we go get bottled water soon. She didn’t know if they were completely safe. Hopefully we will get some soon.

The fan fell in the living room. While everyone was sitting in the room the fan just fell out of the ceiling. I heard a loud boom from the other room as I sat in the bedroom. Then everyone started screaming. No one was injured but it made for a funny story.

Power continues to go out over an over again. It typically converts over to generator power but this takes some time. The combination of no water and no power made for an interesting evening.

Tomorrow: we are planning on visiting the couple we met a week ago at a local orphanage and playing with the kids. It should be fun.

I will let you know how everything goes.

Thanks,

Kim