Chill day

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 Today was a chill day. I didn’t go into the office, I stayed home and did some stuff around the house.  There isn’t much to do, we don’t have a lot of stuff here but I did sweep and mop and do laundry.


This is a view of our front yard, and the guard shack  I feel very safe in the compound!


Had a visitor come by today… un poulet 🐓 


We were running low on water to drink so we went to the grocery store when Cory got home and picked up a few things. Everyone asks about the stores here so I took a few pictures, without trying to look like a tourist!


I’m also trying to learn French so I do about a half hour everyday…I’m not all that bad, just “un peu mal” a little bad


As I was hanging my laundry out to dry, I couldn’t help but think about some things. Where we are living here is actually very nice. Better than 95% of the city. I was kinda having a pity party about not having a dryer and then it hit me…look at what you do have. The wonderful people here are happy and have basically nothing. They don’t know any different. I at least don’t have to do my laundry by hand. 

I made homemade pancakes for dinner and eggs. It was the first meal that tasted like home….everything else has been close but not the same! I get to do the dishes by hand, I’m grateful I have running water. 


We ended the night playing games. Cory is either going to come back loving games or hating them because we play a lot down here! Our sweet neighbors have adopted two teenage brother& sister from Mozambique and they speak Portuguese so they can communicate with Cory. He asked Lauren, the 16 year old, if she liked playing games and she smiled and said yes. He asked her what her favorite game was. She replied, “peek a boo”. It was such a sweet, innocent answer. We are going to invite them over to play games! 

Tonight we played Sky-Jo and GREED. I lost at Sky-Jo but I thought for sure I would win GREED because Cory is greedy in that game. I lost😩🤣






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