Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The Guards
Here at the house we have three guards at all times. There are three day shift guards and then three night shift guards. During the day they also function as the gardeners, we have the most beautiful green gardens here, but the night guards are just guards. One of the night guards is Joseph Peter, kinda ironic, and he seems to really care about us. Every time we leave the compound after six pm. we play 20 questions. He wants to know where we are going, who is going, how we are getting there, what time we plan on being back, and what the purpose of the trip is. He always ends the question session with an okay and reminds us of our curfew that we supposedly have for safety reasons. Our first weekend here we went to a bar near by, it is run by American volunteers for a source of income, and were ten minutes late for curfew. Upon our arrival we got a nice lecture about being late and how it is unsafe. So don't worry mom and dad there is someone watching out for me and he happens to have the same name as dad.
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I am glad to know how safe things are, even though you little rebels have to break curfew in a foreign country. What kind of plants do they grow there? Do they have to water them or does it rain enough? 20 questions is a good game.
ReplyDeleteHAHA...that's too funny. You only THOUGHT you were going to be away from your family. Its like when we were in HS and you thought your family videotaped you being home alone haha...jokes on you, they are keeping tabs on you half a world away. :-P Gotta love it.
ReplyDeleteHAVE FUN in your last few weeks there, its a once in a life time trip. Make it count.
So you really thought you could get away from me, but I just followed you and I'm wearing a disguise. Not only that but I have a perfect accent. I don't know how you can be home sick with the same line of questioning before going out as you get here. Hope you had fun in Zanzibar.
ReplyDeleteLove Dad