Half Way Down and No Way Out
Today was one of those days. It started off good, really good. God woke me up and we had a good time together. I should have known then that I would need a little extra to get through the day. The morning was spent delivering books for our AIDS prevention program. Everything was going relatively stress free. I had to drive to 5 different schools in about a 4 hour time period and drop off 2025 books. I had accomplished 3 of the 5 schools by 1:45 and was headed to my 4 with a smile on my face. The next school, Sebabatso, is situated on top of a hill, quite beautiful when you're up there. Well there aren't any paved roads that take you up there and so I was taking dirt roads, that can hardly be categorized as a road. Well a car was parked on one side so I had to go around it and saw some mud. It didn't look deep, but oh was I wrong. As soon as the front tire when in the mud it sunk half way up the tire. I tried everything I knew to get out of mud: reversing, going forward, putting rocks under the tires, and having people push and pull, but nothing happened. I was stuck. To top it off, the area I was in was fairly remote compared to the other village areas and so no one really spoke English. In my broken Sesotho and their broken English I could barely explain what a little white girl was doing driving books to the school down the road. They were very helpful until they realized I had no money and couldn't pay them for their help. (I had to show them my wallet. Luckily I didn't take any cash today.)
I did eventually get out. Francois came to my rescue! During my hour of waiting to be rescued the schools in the area let out and at one time I think I had about 50-75 students (grades 3-9) surrounding the car all trying to talk to me at once. I felt like a famous actress or something, but a little overwhelming.
I'm going to sleep well tonight!Labels: Humor, Life, Memories
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