Fall has come to Albania after a drought-like summer season. The days are getting shorter and lately, days are made short by the chance that rain will begin falling at any time. To cap the work week I arrived in Fushkruje at about 11:30. My morning Albanian language lesson had gone twice as long as scheduled and the forgone I had boarded sat for about twenty minutes at Zog U Zi before getting underway. The first I saw of Visi was at Cafe Bushi with our two electricians. We sat and talked about life and work and how expensive gasoline is. Petrol costs nearly double in Albania what it does in the States.
After our coffee, Visi and I went to the jobsite. The savatim (stucco) was nearly complete, and it all is looking very good. I helped Visi out with the task of cleaning up, which took the better part of three hours. As we worked, it would rain a bit and stop. At the end of our cleaning time, the rain started and did not stop until sometime after dark.
This morning I slept past 6AM and into the hour of 8. It was nice to get up at my leisure. Had it not rained to convincingly yesterday I might have put off the task of painting the benches outside of the school until a later time. One of my favorite quotes is not from the Bible, but from Mark Twain. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” This statement has kept me from procrastinating more effectively than any of the verses in Proverbs. What I do not do today, I may never have another chance to do. And so, the school has five freshly painted, wrought iron bench seats. Now all they lack are wooden slats for sitting.
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