Today was mainly spent indoors, out of (most of) the rain. It's frequently damp indoors, especially near the kitchen. And people complain about Cleveland!
Nimi came by today to grab money and a chicken. Alive. We ate at a restaurant owned by a nice Portuguese lady who has a 5-year old son (or grandson?) He was pretty bored, so Nimi and I became his best friends in the world. We tossed a bottlecap around, then he showed us his toy cellphone. He tried on our hats and got pretty angry when we decided to go - so I let him off with a tickle torture. Fun kid! Didn't stop calling me Tober, though. Sometimes it's truly like tracing someone else's steps.
After pleading with the bank to give Nimi money, we headed out to catch him a ride. Nimi's Sri Lankan, so I do much better at getting rides, unfortunately. We were denied a few times by trucks and a few cars before Nimi realized his mistake.
"I forgot to flip the coin!" he said. The coin flip is key, of course. The first flip is for getting a ride vs having to take a chapa. The second is having to wait 5 or 10 minutes. The third is whether the driver will know Nimi or not. It was determined that he would get a ride in 10 minutes from a stranger.
Fully anticipating having to walk from the main road to his village (4 miles), he'd eaten big. With the weather as it is, dirt roads are often impassable. But as luck had it, he caught a ride about 10 minutes later to his village, from a stranger. Odd, because he knows most of the people who make the short route, and also the fact that the coin flip was right!
Peace
John
