July 7, 2001

One of the children of Zababdeh, enjoying the pinwheel gift.

Today, of course, was a day for more visits (we've only got two days in Zababdeh - seeing everyone will be impossible, especially when we have homework to do!). We shared more gifts with the kids, too.

While we were gone, our telephone bill went unpaid for three weeks, which meant that it got cut. So our attempts to up/download email were frustrated. Marthame spent part of today in Jenin taking care of that before Paltel went into collective-punishment mode (i.e. cutting off our whole building), as they have done before.

We also heard the tale of the generator, which has been fixed in our absence. There were three motors, and two were broken as we left (waiting replacement parts). It got to the point where electricity was off for twelve hours each day! In our absence, they brought in a newer, bigger motor. There have been some temporary shut-downs, but for the most part we're running better (and noisier) than before!