June 26

JUNE 26

Renae:
This morning we toured all of my family’s old houses, like KASAC court, where the sign out front said “Please Drive Slowly: Children Squash Easily.” Nicole and Travis remember that place, but unfortunately Lisa and myself do not. Then at another house we salvaged some boxes the people were gonna throw away because they’re moving to Australia. The next part was the most interesting: Bokaa. Unfortunately, the host of my parents when they lived in the primitive village has died, but her children still live in the same house, which we visited but nobody was home. My good friend Buru, who had visited our house over Christmas a few years ago, is now in Norway, so it’s too bad I can’t see him again, but his brother Maurice is still there. We will come back again to see him. My parents also wanted to rediscover another friend of theirs, Maria, who worked in the store at that time, and found her house after asking around the village. Her daughter was there, but no Maria. We will probably visit her too. Bokaa is very different too—they actually have running water and electricity, and some even TVs, very different than when my parents were there. Then Trav, father, and Erin went to the airport once again after they dropped the rest of us off at the Flying Mission office in the middle of a KIA dealership. When we got picked up (along with a hitchhiker) we rushed to Chicken Licken for lunch so that we could see if Nikki could go into the village with an old friend of my parents to see where she may be working, and to be able to go she needed to be at her house by 1:00. Since the lady behind the counter making our sandwiches was talking on the phone half the time and using only one hand at all times, along with the horrendous traffic we got into, we didn’t make it in time. So then we didn’t do too much until the evening, when we went to a great Indian restaurant with the people who run the Mennonite the Guest House. And that’s about it.
Renae