The kids (especially the older ones) love to ‘play fitness’ it cracks me up everytime they say that with their thick accents. I am so lucky to have such an incredible group of older kids. Here there is no alchohol, no drugs, & virtually no pre-marital sex. Almost every adult male here does smoke cigarettes however,although at least among the Karama kids I do see that changing. There is a convienence store in what seems like about every 100 meters or so.
It is tough here the volunteers come & go it is hard when you befriend someone & soon they are on their own way. There is a certain sense of comradery here that I think when you share an intense experience like this one has been brings a close friendship with someone….ya the kittens are not in the best shape they both are having their eyes glued shut with puss. I found a dead orange cat outside Karama this morning when I opened the school, I don’t think it was one of ours though (ours had paint all over it from the kids painting class)
Still no water today…
We got drops for the kittens eyes, Krusti’s bloated stomach is normal the vet said, but he did try & pawn a flu shot off on us! He he. The generosity continues, the vet would not charge us.
However, when you have somewhere to go & have to complete a task it can be quite difficult at times. Between people saying they’ll be back in 5 minutes to show you the way (only to come back an hour and a half later) to the lady who has the convienince store next to Karama who tried to pull me in for tea but when I tried to explain we were going into Bethlehem to a vet she still was quite offended anyway that I declined her offer.
One has to learn how to relax, the Western value of getting stuff done having an agenda & stuff to do has to be re-evaluated because at the end of the day we may get more stuff done but are we any happier?
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