Kissing sugar

John and I went back to Alice's last night with a belated birthday gift - a small bag of sugar. She laughed and cried at the same time, and just kept on kissing the bag, saying sugar is like gold. She also cried when we sang Happy Birthday. She said it reminded her of when her kids used to sing to her. "Now we have a son and daughter." Sometimes small actions can go a long way when done in love.

We registered for Shona classes today. We start next week, just one evening a week. Hopefully we will learn quickly and well. Shona is the heart language of most of the people here, and so it will really help us with our relationship-building. Tonight we're also having our first guests for dinner. I'm hoping (for John's sake!) that there's power so that he can whip up one of his gourmet meals (well, gourmet will depend on what's on the shelves of the grocery stores later this afternoon I guess...) :) Always an adventure.