Today we went to Pastor Josephs house to spend sometime with them and it just felt good. It felt good to be cared about, to be asked "how is it living in a country so different from your culture?", to just sit back with a friend, smile, laugh, and know that their was no other motive in their hearts besides simply getting to know us better. It just felt good. .
What didn't feel so good (to my pride) was to find out that we just paid way to much for chairs while furnishing the houses. Usually you can buy the simple ones for 8,000 fbu or so, and we ended up paying 15,000 fbu. This pricks my pride simply because I love to bargain. You tell me 50,000 fbu, and I will end up paying 10,000 fbu in the end, no doubt. This "chair purchase" somehow got under the radar.... Although I invited the carpenter to the house today and had a nice firm talk with him in such a gentle voice informing him that he did us wrong, took advantage of us, and would have to change the price for the chairs or he is out of work for us. I stated, It's not hard to see you saw us as a muzungu and thought you could charge us alot... unfortunately, for his sake he was mistaken. All our love...
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