Someone please 5150 me, I am about to harm a teammate!

Friday morning I awoke dreading working with the same team... well specifically Marc and a little bit with Ashley. On the way down to the site, about 10-15 kids had shown up and were swarming around Marc changing "Sikawa Taaban, Sikawa Taaban, Sikawa Taaban" over and over and over and over... well, you get the picture! I was about ready to poke my eyes out! Sikawa Taaban means money has wings and somehow Marc had learned that yesterday and taught it to the children and would goof around flapping his wings and acting like a drunk bird! It was quite annoying yesterday but today it was kicked up a few notches! After 45 minutes of not having enough work to do, and hearing non-stop sikawa Taaban, Hailey and I decided to jump ship and go work on the other house with the other team. It was amazing up there! It was quiet, all the teammembers worked at a solid pace, the work was steady, they all worked TOGETHER as a team and we didn't have 40 kids hanging around (tripping over them as we carried 4,000lb bricks or having the workers yell at them to go away and then 5 minutes later Ashley or MArc calling them back over). The morning passed really quickly!

At lunch, Nana came to join us and Beatrice was asking him all sorts of questions but she was doing it in a know-it-all way. I was getting super annoyed... I think my patience quotient had worn down and everyone was annoying me a bit this day. I ended up walking back to the worksite by myself as I wanted some time to chill out a bit. Back at the site, Hailey and I begrudgingly made the decision to head down to our original site. On the way there, kids started running from everywhere saying... well, I am sure you can guess what they were chanting. I said aloud "ooooh, that is so annoying." Betty and Hailey both said "no kidding, I am so annoyed with that stupid expression." and Ashley said "get over it Sheri, they are just playing." Lord give me patience!!!!!!!Put me in a straight jacket because I am about to knock a teammate out... pick a teammate, any teammate for I am about ready to go postal on anyone! But I digress...

Nii ended up coming to our site and helping us find work, but we closed up shop early (2:45pm) and you could tell that something was up. We walked back to the house and Jennifer called a team meeting where she normalized having difficulty finding work and that the workers aren't used to working at the pace we do. And that we should be mindful of the fact that they are trying to adjust as well... they don't normally let women do this kind of work, and here we are... a team of 9women and 3 men... and 11 of the 12 of us are white which adds another dimension as well. I was still feeling a bit edgy and after the brief meeting I decided to go chill out and go take a "shower." BEfore that, I decided to use the outhouse. I am sitting there and I here something flopping around down below in the muck... Are you serious?! I immediately sat up and yep... there were still noises moving around down there... fan-freaking-tastic! :) I told Nii and let him figure out what had gotten down in there! My shower was pretty good... I've got it down to 1 1/2 buckets now! During the shower, Andrea was sitting outside doing some of her laundry... we were talking and it REALLY helped me calm down a lot. She's definitely grown on me and doesn't get on my nerves like she did the first 2 days. I talked with Jen about the teams and she finally agreed to make the executive decision to switch up the teams even if people didn't want to.

Jen and Betty taught Andrea and I to play Euchre while we were waiting for dinner. It was hilarious and Andrea and I kept pretending to cheat :) During our reflections tonight, Ashley had us draw an "aha moment" that we've had on this trip or recently. I drew the moment yesterday in the rain. BEatrice was sharing hers and was starting to cry... right then, WHACK, Crispin's chair broke!!! He got a new chair and 5 minutes after that, WHACK... his NEW chair broke!!! :)

We went to bed @9:30 but were awoken by some of the other teammates who had gone to a bar and got home @ 11:30 and were REALLY loud. It was also pouring rain outside. I think I fell back asleep @ midnight. I was awoken at 3:30am to a loud buzzing in the room. What the heck is that? I grabbed my headlamp and decided to investigate the situation...dun, dun, dun... I had left a plastic bag next to my bed and a moth, the size of my fist had gotten into it and was stuck. I was surprised with the ease/boredom with which I picked up the bag and threw it outside our room. Just another day in KTK :) I went back to sleep but... yep, you guessed it..,. the rooster started crowing @ 4:15am and the mosque started up @ about 4:30am. We got out of bed @ 5:45am to get ready for the next day...