Paige- One Week in Manakara!!

Today marks one week from the day that we arrived in Manakara!! It is hard to believe that it has only been a week.  In just seven short days we have become like local celebrities, being awesome and drawing a crowd everywhere we go. To celebrate our one-week-aversary we went out to a little restaurant in town and it was an experience…to say the least.  When we got to the restaurant, it was right around dinner time, but no one else was there.  We probably should have taken that as a sign and went someplace else but hey, you live and you learn; we were also very gung-ho and determined to be adventurous.  So we get there, we sit down, you know, normal restaurant stuff and then the fun began.  We are only into our third day of our language study so we couldn’t really understand much on the menu and we had a difficult time communicating with the waitress.   She had each of us write our orders down on a piece of paper so if we got the wrong thing it was no one’s fault but our own (I didn't realize this crafty technique until later).  I ordered the Potage au Legume (or something like that) and I crossed my fingers that it would be good.  We waited for about an hour until we got our food and I am pretty sure that in that time, they sent someone to buy the ingredients for some of our meals.  I am not positive, but we all ordered Pommes Frites  (fried potatoes) and we watched one of the employees leave after we placed our orders and then come back with a bag of potatoes.  Deductive reasoning says he bought them for us, but I’ve been wrong [once] before.  While we waited for that hour and second guessed our choice of restaurant we laughed, and we laughed, and we laughed.   When the food finally came it was OK, but spending the time together, and laughing at ourselves until we almost cried was so much fun!  God is so amazing, He can take sub-par service and mediocre food at a restaurant and use it to stretch us and grow us closer as a team.  He’s good.

For the Kingdom,

plc