April 22, 2008

I've been really paranoid about snakes lately because the boys saw two black mambas on the same day, and I've been hearing noises in the bushes like snakes, as I ride my bike to Bornface's everyday.

Today, as always, I said a little prayer before I left- out of sheer terror! (I can really get myself worked up when I'm thinking about snakes.) I prayed that my angel would go ahead of me and either scare all the snakes away, or hold onto them so they wouldn't attack me.

I was on my way back, and I saw a boy on the trail, and I was just going to wave and say "malibiha buti "("how's the afternoon") and go along my merry way, but he goes, "there's a snake there", so I stopped and sure enough, there was a fat snake on the trail. He was still alive, but he was kind of sluggish and out of it since the boy had been beating him in the head with a stick. It was either a boa or a puff adder. I'm more inclined to think it was a puff adder because it was SO FAT, but only about as long as my arm. (thats a characteristic of puff adders, short, but fat) Anyways, I waited while he beat it some more and then threw it into the bushes. I thanked him for killing it and left.

After I was almost home, I remembered that I had prayed before I saw the snake. I think that's cool that God arranged for that boy to arrive where the snake was before I did, so he could kill it. I would have swooned if i had been the one to come across it!

April 17, 2008

I have four guinea fowl eggs which I am trying to hatch! I put one in the oven and the oven got too hot, so I may have fried its brains, but there are the three others which have some great potential of surviving (except that I am keeping them warm with Pauline's heating pad, and the power went out last night while I was sleeping!)

Other than that, the only other excitment lately was a birth last night. From 9:30 to like, 12:00. It wasn't long at all. It was exciting! The baby was HUGE and HAIRY! like, hair everywhere, back of the shoulders, legs, even the knuckles. It was hard to get to come out of the mother because it was so HUMUNGOUS. The nicest part was that we didn't have to be up all night!

That's all I can think of for now except that it's getting really scary how soon it is that I leave. I hope I get everything I need before I leave and don't get on the plane and wish I had gotten or done something that I didn't.