Togo Day 7 (11-11-11)

Rundown: 

  • guitar
  • popcorn sifter
  • toothless sharks
  • monkey bath
  • more guitar

Today started out with another great morning guitar lesson.  This morning, we started translating (with the help of JJ Alderman) some songs into french.  We had a great time.  I love seeing the smiles on the guys faces when they start playing all the way through a song and hear it in their own language.  It’s priceless!

Some rats bit into the huge bag of popcorn in the pantry, so Tevi, the next door neighbor, and I sifted through it trying to get all debris out.  We got so much crud out of there.  Anything that’s exposed to the elements here gets much moisture in it, since we are only a block from the ocean…. so then we had to lay all the corn out in the sun to dry for the day.  

After the corn job, I thought it would be fun to go to the beach and see if we could find a few shark teeth, so Tevi joined me.  In the time frame of 1 hour, we found 120 shark teeth.  DONT GO SWIMMING HERE!  Haha

I watched Dwight (JJ’s monkey) get his weekly bath today.  He loved it.  It was quite funny watching a monkey bask in the shower. (pic on facebook)

We had another guitar lesson in the evening.  We are still doing at least 2 hours every morning and 2 hours every evening.  These guys continue to impress me.  My morning crew (Jonas and Frank) and I taught the evening crew “Blessed Be Your Name”… in French.  They loved it, and kept yelling for an encore.  We must have played the song at least 4 times for them tonight.  I love worshiping and praying with these guys.  

Have a great night.

Tabb

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