Around 2:00, the Kosco arrived, and Aaron again went down the hill to find Belza so the two of them could go out in a motor canoe to pick up our things from the Kosco. We were expecting some food for our family's Christmas feast: a watermelon, some green beans, and eggs. And one of the grandparents' Christmas boxes had arrived in Honiara, so we were also looking forward to those. And maybe most importantly, the boxes have a new radio sent by our SITAG friends. Neither our radio nor our e-mail has worked for the last week. Sometimes we can get in touch with our colleagues by cell phone, but the signal is weak and using the phone is expensive.
Aaron returned without any boxes. One of our colleagues had given our boxes to a friend who was returning to Marulaon for Christmas. Unfortunately, he arrived at the ship after it was so full that they began to turn away people and cargo. This time of year, everybody returns to their home village to celebrate Christmas with their families, and the ships are always packed. So our boxes are still in Honiara, but the Kosco plans to come back our way on December 29.
Since tomorrow is Christmas, we harvested some more uvikola
The village is supposed to gather after Evening Prayer and supper for each group to perform Christmas carols. We think the village has been hearing us sing Christmas carols with our evening devotionals, so now they think we've been preparing an “item” to sing tonight. We decided to join in the fun and sing “Joy to the World”, “Silent Night” with a beautiful descant the kids learned last year in their children's choir, and “Angels We Have Heard on High”. Just to add a little lightheartedness, we plan to break into clapping and a little rhythm as we repeat the chorus, “Glo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ria” and march off.
2 comments:
Oh, I wish I could hear it!
Julie
I know it is exhausting, but the caroling sounds like so much fun! Of course, this is the mother who used to drag her family around the neighborhood to carol the neighbors. :-)
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