Jan 13, 2011

Conversations with Rugi: Fetching water

Neene tells Rugi to wash the dishes, so Rugi tells me to help her fetch the water from the well.

Rugi [struggling to draw up the bucket]: Binta, help me!
[I start drawing up the water]
Rugi: Binta, stop! I can do it!
[Rugi takes over and manages to pull the bucket up almost all the way]
Rugi: Come on, Binta! Help me grab it!
[I pull out the bucket from the well and start emptying it into another bucket]
Rugi: Binta, stop! Hold the fabric. [we stretched a piece of fabric over the top of the bucket to strain out the bugs, etc]
[I hold the fabric]

Then repeat four more times until the second bucket overflows and Rugi decides we have enough water for doing dishes.

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