Abudul trying to stop whomever may be trying to escape from Dorcas...
No Sebuma does not have chicken pox try as we may to give it to all of them to prevent it at an earlier age.

David, one of my favorite boys in the P4 class.
Sam's granddaughter Rebecca. She is a little fireball!
i caught the lil booger with his sack clothes running away with our rubbish.

 Catching you up: so many joys and trials take place everyday that you may fall asleep if I write all of them. What do you say we get a cup of tea one day in the future and I will try to entertain you with some of the many? As for now, this is what a normal day usually looks like.

My days now consist of waking just before 7:00 a.m. to the knock of a need or hot water being brought for the day.  It is then a sudden explosion of activity.  I run outside to the bathroom for a “short call” in the long drop before another knock wakes whomever may be rooming with me at the time before their scheduled wakeup. Pencils and pens are needed, homework kept safe in my room must be distributed, Frank needs money for transport, Vetus needs money for tomatoes for the lunch they will begin preparing, the storage room key cannot be found, and Musisi is sick.  Then it is off to school. We have now been through 3 Headmasters whom have all swindled money, leaving the school in a bit of a pinch. Luckily I know how to run a school?  I have been entrusted with the responsibility of recording, holding, and spending all of the funds for the school and the home.  So after peeling children from my now completely unfeasible arms, I hand out the money to the cook for charcoal and sugar for porridge, to the deputy teacher for breakfast for the teachers, and the afternoon teachers for their lunches.  Chalk is needed in the schoolhouse. School fees need to be recorded and receipts written and class is about to begin.  I have grown a fondness for teaching after these 6 months.  By no means would I qualify myself as a teacher, but I have adapted and enjoy it most of the time.  After lunch there are wounds to heal, clothes to wash, school shoes to brush, homework to be done, games to play, English to be taught, the garden to be tended to, mango walks to be had, beans to pick, water to fetch, and bathing to finally take place. Marvin, Choto and Eddi have fungus on their head bones so my room is an open clinic after prayers and singing. Sola Bulungi to everyone. Kisses on the heads… ope that one has fungus. eee.

 

So far diseases on my end have been minimal. A slight case of ringworm and just since Tuesday a bad case of Strep throat. Everyone in the village told me it was for sure malaria. Thank goodness it was absolutely incorrect.  Woo whoo!