No one from my organization is in Semonkong right now. I’ll fill everyone in on the news with that eventually. Instead of worrying I spent yesterday greeting everyone again. More or less I wanted to make sure they didn’t think I left/was dead. You know how rumors can circulate in a small town especially when it’s cold and you have nothing else to talk about!! It was great to see everyone again. By the third person I met I had a routine pattern of statements well practiced in Sesotho and ready to respond to anything.

That was yesterday. Today I went to the post office to check the mail but the post man wasn’t going to show until after lunch. (Lunch is from 1-2 and they close at 3:30!!). Whatever. Since I had time I stopped by and chased some kids. They are a trip and think I must be insane as I come after them. I also hung out with the priest’s handyman. He was fixing a wheelbarrow and he didn’t seem to mind the audience. I think he actually loved the observation of his personal handiness. Finally, before I reached home I sat with Me’Malineo and chatted about the weather, about the chickens, and I explained how a wooden door could swell because of water. I avoided the obvious difficulties of the science behind it and described it more like a sponge.