Rain...Rain...and More RAIN!

\The past few days have been somewhat slow, mainly due to the weather. On Thursday we had everything prepared to paint our basketball court and had begun marking lines on the concrete when it began to rain. It rained quite hard for several hours thus making it impossible to paint. We had decided to find a cab and head to a local mall to get some lunch, find some bolts as we were two short on the rims and essentially kill time. After a few hours at the mall, we headed back to check out the concrete. It was still wet but we decided to go ahead and finish marking all the lines. It’s about a 3 mile drive from the Arthur Center to our Condo, some of which is along a main road. We decided to just start walking and flag down a taxi along the way. We saw three taxi’s, all of which had people in them. It was a long, hot walk that took about 45 minutes through the various curves and hills back home.
Having all the lines marked out, we got right to work taping and painting lines Friday morning. We went to an amazing Chinese restaurant for lunch and got Starbucks after that. During that time it began to rain incredibly hard for about an hour which caused us to worry about our paint sticking. Saturday morning we finally got to see all of our work pay off. The paint stuck and still looked great.

The church has basketball from 8am to 10am Saturday mornings, usually they have to rent a court each week, but having our court finished, they can now play for free as long as they want. There were about 30 or 40 young kids playing around and a few high school kids that showed up. They had a lot of fun playing on their new court. It rained again shortly thereafter for most of the day. We spent the day relaxing at the condo, reading and sleeping. We ate supper with the Clintons and made a few calls to the US.

Today we went to church, which managed to be even more confusing than last week. 7 days ago the worship songs were in English, so we could at least participate there, but this week they were all in their native language…so we pretty much just stood in the back and clapped. I think pastor Better was giving us a hard time about something cause at one point everyone looked at us and laughed…we just smiled.

It started raining about 4 this afternoon…it is now almost 11 and still sprinkling. This morning our pool was about 4 inches below full…now it is overflowing! This evening we went to two Filipino pro basketball games. The first teams to play were the Burger King Whoppers and the Realtors. We decided that our FHSU men’s basketball team could have beat either team. It was still an interesting experience. We got there a little late so we couldn’t get three courtside seats in a row. Had we been able to, they would have cost a whole 12 American dollars.