Today’s the last day in the third grade. Because I couldn’t pay for our trip to Blanche Marie yesterday, I still needed to go get money today. Not possible without my passport, so I really needed to go get it. Mr Blockland was on vacation, but Mr Zordan was there to help me out. I did need to get there as fast as I could, though, cause at 10am he would be in a meeting he couldn’t get out of until it was done. I was glad my teacher said she would take over some classes and that the principal allowed me to go get it during school hours.
When I arrived, it turned out none of the people there had a key to the vault where our passports are. “It’ll be about 30 minutes till the woman gets here.” Thirty minutes turned to an hour and thirty minutes, and by the time she actually got there, it was past 10am and most of my teaching day had passed.
I quickly head back to school and took over the classes again. Luckily my teacher didn’t have any problems with me being back much later than planned (after all, it wasn’t my fault). I did get back in time to give my first English lesson though: ‘The parts of my arms and legs’, where wrists were feet, ankles were knees and shoulders were hips… But they got it in the end!
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Weekend again! Today is shopping day! Too bad it was raining again... but thank god for taxis!
First stop: Boombox (which, as you prolly can guess, is a music store). Here we bought our tickets for Richie Spice, Dancehall (kind of reggae) artist who will be performing in Paramaribo tomorrow.
Second stop: Ellen. She had already left when we got up and we met her in a nice coffee shop (not the Dutch kind) where she showed us all the stuff she had bought already.
Next stop: Shops!! Bought myself two pair of shoes, two new bags and a CD.
Final stop: Popeye’s for some yummy chicken and biscuits before we head back home.
Around 6ish someone came over to make us real Java saoto soup. It was pretty good, but I like the salty type better than this sweet soup.
Tineke, Sharon and Evi are going out into town and Ellen went to bed early. That leaves Marij and I to entertain ourselves, which we did perfectly with chocolate and a movie!
Wouws and Gunno came by to watch one with us, but by the time it was 4am, I was too exhausted to watch the end of the second movie and just went to bed.
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Today was the day we were supposed to go to Bersaba again. Yup: SUPPOSED to go. Wouws and Gunno were coming to pick us all up at 10, so we could spend an entire day there. By 11am gunno called to say he was going to be here at noon. 12.30 and still no one to be seen, so I called him back. “I’ll call you back at one, I still need to do some things first”. By 2pm we had given up waiting and just went on with our own business. Wasn’t worth going anymore, since it’s an hour drive and we needed to be back in time for Richie Spice. Not worth mentioning we were pissed about all this…
By 3.30pm Wouws finally showed up: in a cab, with all the food he had prepared for us. Still no sign of Gunno, though… By 4.30 he finally arrived with all sorts of excuses: his boss had sent him to pick someone up, there had been an accident at work and he had to go check it out and settle everything, his mom had the car and he couldn’t go anywhere, … I don’t think he even realized he was contradicting himself, which pissed me off even more.
Fortunately wouws had already come with something to eat, so we didn’t have to starve to death :p
By the time it was 9pm, Marij, Ellen and I got ready for Richie Spice. Even though Richie himself would perform around midnight, Ellen didn’t want to miss the entertainment acts that were scheduled before that. And they indeed were very good! I even thought some were better than Richie… we did have a wonderful time, lots of shaking, talking, singing and screaming. Not that we knew the lyrics, but who knows and who cares? :p
By the time we got home, it was past 2am and after a bit of “aftertalk” we all head to bed.
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Last day of the weekend again and I really felt like I had deserved a good sleep in! by 12.30 I finally got out of bed and did a bit of schoolwork.
Glenn, a mate from Belgium, is coming over for a week and Marij and I are going to pick him up at 4. It is nice to have a “new” face around the house and someone else to talk to besides the 5 house mates…
Today’s also the day we switch rooms again. Marij and I have already spent an entire month in bed together (not ALL the time of course, but every night! :p). I am going to miss my talking partner in bed…
We had spaghetti again today. This one was the best I had ever eaten in Suriname (mushrooms!!!)
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