October 30, 2001

Our local bakery.

"Give us this day our daily bread..." We have begun a new schedule of getting up early and taking a walk - directly to the bakery to get our fresh bread for the day. It's not the must strenuous exercise, but the food is healthy, and it gives us a good start to the day. We'll see how long it lasts.

Marthame gets a well-deserved water break.

Today at break the teachers' team played against the 11th grade soccer team. The students were all dressed and ready - the teachers, well, less so...the goalie was dabbing his sweat away with his tie, and Abuna Aktham loosened his collar to jump in the game. The final score? 4-4. Marthame scored a goal. A completely impartial observer said, "It was the nicest goal I have ever seen - Reynaldo has nothing on you." He gained some prop points with the high school students for his old (now almost retired) skills. Now the 10th grade is itching to take on the team. We'll have to wait for tired muscles to strengthen a bit.

A teacher celebrating a goal.

We also got running water in our apartment again - the new water pump motor arrived! We smell a heck of a lot better now.