July 26, 2008 - Pay Day
Yesterday we delivered the salaries to the cooks. They each got K2250 ($18 USD) for three weeks work. Next month they will get K3000 because they will work for the whole month. After receiving and counting their salaries, the ladies told Mabvuto to tell me that they are very grateful to me. They said they were afraid I’d not give them their salaries because I had reminded them several times throughout the month to prepare less food for the children. They thought I was not pleased with their work and wouldn’t pay them. I was shocked to hear that they thought I wouldn’t pay them. I had worried that my advice to cook less would be taken as scolding. Of course I’d never intended not to pay them. They’re doing their jobs. They are doing their jobs quite well actually.
Maggie greeted me yesterday with a very jovial,“Hello! How are you?” It was great. She is full of spunk. I think I will like her a lot. She appears to be the one who tells the others what to do which is strange since she is the youngest. The kids all seem to listen to her too.
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