Moving in

This past week has been an eventful one in terms of moving and getting!
Praise the Lord, my house situation has been all regulated. The other place
would not unload the baggage that is in there, so more unfortunately for them since
they will miss on me paying rent, I went to the other place I mentioned. It is a nice
place same bedroom and living room combo, but very quiet. Maybe in the evening when the people
that live in the main house have guests there might be a little noise, but other
than that zilch, nothing, nada! Well except for the mouse that lives in my room,
I hear his scratching and it drives me much, but can't complain. I have in my bedroom
office (desk and bookshelf), kitchen (table, shelf, and soon coming refridgerator), and bedroom
(bed, hanging clothes, and dirty laundry bin), they fit in all very nicely, so it is a
sizeable room. The living is a lot smaller, and just has the chairs and coffee table in there, well
maybe I'll call it the tea table since I only really drink my good 'ole herbal tea.
Any it is a nice place and to my surprise one of our church members lives in the
same compound, thought there is a front kind of gate, I can't quite sing the gated community
song here, just wouldn't cut it (that you will only get if you've been at Camp Whitesand and you
went with me on a trip to Saskatoon in June 2007, so you may not find it funny in other words.)
The neighbors are nice, the main house contains a family of two children and a younger sister
of either the mom or the dad. The little kids are getting used to a white guy being around.
The other day I had to clean out my healing wisdom teeth wounds with a syringe and salt
water, as I do everyday, but this day the kids were out watching. The tried to half hide
behind the hanging laundry and watching perform my intrigueing ritual, it was quite
entertaining for me too. It has been a shock though to find out that this family has a little
girl for a servant, slave basically. I ask Suzy about it and she told me that it is typical
for upperclass women to hire a girl to help them do household duties. But that means
the child does not go to school and is in someone else's house all the time. I was a bit naive
before, thinking that this really doesn't happen anymore. The sad part is that the mother
is at home all day watching TV, I think she only does some of the cooking. It just irks me,
makes me all feel all jumbled up inside!

On a brighter note, I suppose,
I purchused a new second hand bike. It is a blue city kind of bike made in Belgium for a
British company. It has three speed, and I have found that is all you really need. And
all my life I thought it was suffering having less than 21. Well 21 is nice, but three works
too. The roads here are rough, so I try not to let my mountain biking instincts take
over. Oh and the weather is rainy here. It is October and it all should be done by now, but the world
is falling apart my friends, and well Benin is a part of the mess! The rains came all
September this year, as I mentioned before, when they should have come in August, so
this is the remnant I believe. But I am a little glad, but it sure does get hot when it
doesn't rain! But when the rains cease, then by November the weather will cool down
a little especially at night, that'll be nice. I am thinking of naming it "The Blue Nose" or "The
Blue Macaroon" or "The Blizzard" or "The Belgium Bullet" or "The English Bluester" or "Blues' Clues"
or "The Big Comfy Bike" or
well the list could go on!