Rainy Funny

October 25, 2010

So I haven’t really written anything in a week or so…haven’t felt like it. Been kinda busy; had TMT meeting, set goals; had Palm Oil Women meeting and said we need to restructure; Water Sachet group is working hard core trying to fill the U.S. orders by next week when I ship…THANKS U.S. HOMIES FOR YOUR INTEREST AND EFFORTS TO DISTRIBUTE. The ladies are excited and have been working really hard and pulling extra days this week to fill the order.

Halloween is Sunday; Saturday night we’re gonna have a local PC party…I’m gonna be a tree…go figure.  I sewed another skirt this week. 

What made me write today:

Today I spent the day in the village making water purses with 2-3 of the women. It kept pouring on and off all day. It was towards the end of the day, we were huddled in the lil shop room and there were about 15 kids there too (they were gathering water sachet bags for the cocoa saplings my supervisor does each year). So we’re all smashed together, chillin’, waiting for the rain to let up, starin’ out the doors when you see a man coming up the road pulling hard on a rope.  Eventually a white bull emerges on the other end of the rope. This poor man is pulling his heart out, in the pouring rain, in flip-flops.  The bull would start pulling and going in circles.  The kids were cracking up, you see the people in the other lil huts looking out and laughing too; I start chuckling.  He battles it for a while, and then all of a sudden the bull turns and hauls ass back down the road and this poor dude is being yanked down the muddy road like he’s on skis. We all start cracking up! The kids run into the road to watch him get pulled, we all run out to the porch and are laughing hysterically, as are the other people hiding in the other huts.

It catches me and makes me realize where I am.  Thankful for where I am and grateful for this moment; an experience I would never witness at home. It makes me feel happy inside. It was so funny…this was the excitement for the day; a bull pulling a man in the rain.  At home I’d be sitting in my office trying to find something to entertain me until 5 o’clock.  Life is funny…everywhere…just in different ways.

J