Hey guys - Since I'm in Port, I thought I'd type up a few stories to share with you guys (since our internet is down at the moment.)
Something funny that’s happened to us in church is that the first few times we sang for special music, we decided to sing classic songs like “Amazing Grace,” “Draw me close to you” or some other kind of beautiful/melodic song. What we realized though after a few weeks is that although the poor church people could enjoy the melody, they don’t understand the words. Obviously.
Even though the Moskito church pretty much only sings from the hymnal, they all looked kinda bored when we got up there. So the next time we sang, we shell-shocked the congregation with “I like Bananas.” Complete with handclapping, finger snapping, and the break-down version.
Well THAT special music was the experience of the century I bet. Everyone at first stared back at our unconventional church song. The kids started giggling and the parents discreetly tried to cover their smiles. Soon it was a lost cause however, everyone just burst out laughing when we all yelled out: “Papayas?!?!” What I didn’t think about before we starting singing “I like Bananas” is that all the fruits they mention in the song are exactly the same words in Spanish. Bananas, Papayas, Mangos… No wonder all these people were cracking up – all us crazy Americans are up front, and the only thing that makes sense to them is that we’re singing a song about fruit.
Lately the songs we’ve sung have been ones like “We are Soldiers” and “Jesus Loves Me” (the clapping version), and everyone just seems blown away that we have such “crazy songs” that we pull out of nowhere. Thank you, 4 rounds of summer camp. haha
Needless to say, I think our special music “performances” are a much anticipated event now here in Francia Sirpi, even if no one has any idea what we’re singing.
This past week, Georgina (the MINSA clinic nurse), went to Waspam for 3 days. So instead of working in the MINSA clinic, Jericca, Kaileen and I decided to put in some time at the Adventist Clinic. Ever since we first got here, we’ve slowly been chipping away at cleaning the clinic and doing inventory – A verrry sloooooww process. Thankfully, we were really productive and we were able to finish inventory, sort through expired medications, clear out trash, and begin to bleach all the walls to get rid of bat guano stuck on the walls. :S
On Thursday morning we were workin away – being very speedy until we discovered a little visitor. That would be a MONSTEROUS spider. We don’t have any machetes in the clinic, and obviously a monstrously huge spider and I cannot coexist, so we hunted around for something to kill it with. We quickly came up with the idea to fashion a long-handled spear by attaching a surgery scalpel to a broomstick with medical tape. Our plan worked really well – we again relocated the spider who was menacingly perched on the edge of the trash can, and I speared the spider right through the gut on my first jab!
I realize that some of you might think that I’m a heartless person to take a spider out like that, but I could just tell he wasn’t a good spider to have around. Anyways, I was pretty proud of myself and I turned around and held my speared spider up like a trophy for Jericca and Kaileen to see, his legs still moving slightly; it was all really awesome until he suddenly fell off the scalpel almost on my head. I screamed and ran to the other side of the pharmacy, checking to see if the spider had fallen on me.
I was okay, just some spider guts had fallen on my hand – ugh! So gross!
Guys, I promise I didn’t just suddenly turn into a “girly-girl” when I got here to Nicaragua, but spiders that are as big as my hand are completely different from any spiders I’ve seen back home. I want to kill ALL of them.
Well I'm running out of time - we gotta make a run to the post office to pickup/send mail! I'll talk to you guys next time we come to Port - Hopefully sometime in November!
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