I swear its made of a different fabric than I dropped off (not really, I just forgot the colors.. sorta) but it was my dress!! And kind of African-feeling. She handed me the dress and urged me to go try it on. That didn't take too much encouraging.
Now, in my room. Get in the dress. Make sure it doesn't need adjustments. Wear it tomorrow to work. Awesome plan. Except I never even got to step 2! I couldn't get in this dress. Looking at the dress, both Elizabeth and I were concerned it may be a little big.. and here I can't even get in it. The zipper goes down the back.. but ends a few inches above my waist. This means that the very skinniest point of the dress... doesn't include the zipper! Stepping into the dress I can't pull it over my waist, pulling on the dress I can't get it over my shoulders! What a silly problem.
I step out and all I can say is "I can't get it on" -- now what do you say to that? What? you can't get it on? what do you mean? is it too small? Elizabeth came in to then help me get in this dress. When you put your arms up over your head.. you can make your shoulders smaller! Surely this should work (leaving no thought to getting back out of the dress that is.) Nope, no such luck. So... my very first dress literally tailored to me, doesn't work. But, the good news is it's an easy fix! They just need to lengthen the zipper, and the zipper is already a few inches longer than was sewn in. :D
So... there is the story of my dress. How sad. Hopefully it will get fixed quickly. If I can I'll wear it on Sunday, but if not I may wait til next Friday. Friday's are 'African wear' day. According to Manasseh, this is true throughout Ghana, or at least Accra. I honestly haven't noticed it yet, but I haven't been watching either.
I also made a small accomplishment! I now french braid my own hair!! Its a wonderful thing, because then its out of my face and it actually stays in. Doing my hair down here isn't much of an option between air-drying and the humidity, so this is a perfect solution. Mostly I'm just proud that I was able to do it at all! I've only tried french braiding someone's hair once before - back in high school sometime or another Kate tried to teach me on Jackie's hair - and it wasn't very successful. So, with that as my track record, I was able to do it on myself!!! Anyhow.. that's it.. simple, but something I'm proud of.
Work.. ok, so work for a little over a week, has been modifying excel documents. I was given the task of calculating how much interest income we earned from each loan payment made to us during the week. This spurred the beginning of working through every excel sheet this company uses, adding equations, and saving hours and hours of work for some poor person to do. For any who are laughing - I totally submit - I am NOT the person to ask about any kind of technical computer things, programming, or math, or finances, or all the sheets I'm working on. :) All of my excel training is contained in one single class I took this last fall. :) Yay me!
Unfortunately, because I am adding so many things, this is requiring all of the right information before its all entered into a new system. This has inspired a totally different problem/set of tasks. I'm hoping there isn't too much of this in the future, but I'm going through our 2008 records. Recording susu payments, doing bank reconciliations... ya... and it really is just that much fun. Haha, like I said, hopefully this stage will end soon.. and we may just be ditching the 2008 bank reconciliations. Again, for any who are laughing at my apparent inability to do such work, I am doing it! I'm not pro, and its not fun, but its work, its going to make this company better, and much, much more efficient.
Alright, time to leave for the day! Got to get home in time for the 2nd game of the World Cup. France vs. Uruguay. (After watching the tie between South Africa and Mexico.) Have a great weekend!
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