Saturday, September 6, 2008

There's not even a storm!!!

So, here in Tanzania and probably most of Africa the power isn't exactly reliable. But, we sometimes get spoiled and it stays on for several days in a row, which had been the case for the story I'm about to share....

Well, we were watching 'The Notebook' on our fancy TV aka Laptop when everything goes black. The good news is that the laptop runs on a battery, right? Well...as soon a the power goes I check the battery and it say 14 mins, which we all know really means more like 10 and there's at least 30 minutes left in the movie. And come on it's The Notebook and it was just getting good when Ally was going back to see Noah after 7 years. Sure enough the battery dies, we were so upset! Not only was the movie getting juicy, but our little bit of light was GONE! YIKES!!! After we shot up a few prayers for the power to come back on and received no answer we started thinking of other options. We couldn't get the DVD out of the computer because it was completely dead. BUT, lucky for us, Heath has the same computer so we took the battery out of hers and put it in mine. We were back in action! We get all settled in and get right back into the movie. Our sweet new roomy Clair (cute as a button volunteer from England) has to go potty and is afraid all the candles we had lit may burn the place down, so we pause the movie. Of course, I check the battery and only 12 mins this time. AHHHHHHHH! Ally was just trying to decide whether to stay with Noah or her finance. Once again....intense! No options this time, the power is still out and no more computers. We were at least prepared with our headlamps this time. Now to make the situation even more frustrating THERE WASN'T EVEN A STORM and we looked across the street and they had lights. The power was just out for us! TIA(This is Africa)...After a little whining we just went to bed to dream about Noah! We had to watch the rest of the movie the next day at lunch.


I'll have you know that the power didn't come back until 5 a.m.!!! When every single light in the apartment lit up! Thank goodness Christy got up and turned them all out, saved me from having to get out of my mosquito net, phew!

Ok, so maybe watching a movie in Africa is a much bigger deal than back home! You at least have a little taste of our night life!!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

let me guess who's idea it was to watch the notebook:)

Wendy said...

I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!! It was on the other day and I sat at home (by myself) balling my eyes out. That's right I'm a sucker for sappy love stories. I miss ya'll!!!!

T said...

i wanna boos noah.