DAY TWELVE: Manyana + Bananas + Suckers

This day Linda was doing much better and very much wanting to go home, however, the doctor wanted to try to figure out what was causing the trouble, so on she stayed.  Linda was an absolute trouper and Wendell was an exceedingly great caretaker.  Madeleine threw together some cute fill in the blank books for the older children, who need to learn a bit of their letters before going to school.  We subsequently learned that most of the littles really speak almost no English, but Setswana.  Fill in the blanks -- an adventure to be sure.

Mads and I wanted to bring a bit of a treat for snack time for the babies, so went to the local Hyper Choppies for bananas and suckers.  We still were not so clear on the value of a Pula.  Because there are about 63 children at the centre, we decided to buy a large box of bananas instead of the pre-packaged and pre-weighed bananas.  And we bought suckers.  When we went through the checkout, the lady charged us a very large amount for the bananas and I started to question her, but since I really didn't know the value of a Pula (Kyle may now comment about my ability regarding the value of US currency) I opted to just raise my eyebrows and say, "That seems pricey."  She just muttered something about us buying the large box. We paid about $25 for about $10 worth of bananas.  It only took me a week to figure that out.

Note:  We have otherwise been treated with absolute kindness, respect and friendliness.  The people of Botswana are warm and accepting and we have felt a genuine part of things here.  Even the Hyper Choppies has otherwise been great.

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