Bri in Ethiopia: The Best 6 Dollars I Ever Spent
It really doesn’t take that much to bring me immense joy. Today at the hospital, the kids and I made a game out of killing flies with a flyswatter, and it was honestly a lot of fun. One kid in particular has what I guess I can only describe as a very droopy eye. It sounds wrong to type it out like that, but once you see his smile, the fact that his face is somewhat disfigured escapes you. He would point to his face when a fly would land on it, and whisper iso (it’s ok), as in, “It’s ok to hit me in the face with that flyswatter.” I didn’t, of course, but I did let him swat me a few times on the leg. It was worth the sting even though he missed the flies. They are the world’s most annoying flies, by the way. They do not get the hint that you hate them. Read the rest of this entry »
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