Well, no excuses

Although the power went out earlier this afternoon, it's on for now, so I'm going to post!

I have to admit a lack of intelligence on my part this past week. I'm hoping it'll help you get a little better sense of things here too.

On Wednesday, I went to the grocery store and purchased a number of groceries. Grocery stores are pretty similar to the ones in the US, maybe a bit more crowded. Also, while in Wisconsin I could shop at Pick n' Save, here the best grocery store is Pick n' Pay. Subtle, but it got me.

So I got to the checkout and I did something dumb. I'm actually pretty sure that when I was working at RadioShack, I snickered at someone for. I didn't take out my wallet. The checker rang up all my items and then told me the total and I went, "Oh! Yeah." Yes, I was caught off-guard by the fact that she was expecting me to pay for my groceries.

Anyway, I was so flustered, I forgot to cut my bread. I don't know how common this is around the world, but here we buy loaves of bread whole and we can cut them ourselves at a strange machine outside the store. It's good fresh bread, but I'm not sure if it lasts as long as bread with some sort of preservative in it. I'm not much of a bread connoisseur. So now I have a loaf at home that I have to saw through to get a piece of bread for a sandwich. It's not much of a problem, just funny.

Last night and most of the day tomorrow I'll be spending at church. I'm helping with worship night there tomorrow evening. I'm helping another guy do lights and sound. It brings me back to church worship team and theater. He's a real good guy though, so it's been fun working with him. He's a 22-year-old Zambian and does the tech support for Children's Cup (the care organization linked to the church). So he volunteers his time to help out with tech stuff for the church too. His family is very involved in the church, so he actually had 4 siblings at practice.

Well, I should get home. I'll let you know how everything went on Monday.

-Ben