General Update

On Tuesday night we went to a wedding. All the girls looked lovely as you can see but the wedding was very long. The guy preached longer than me! There were over 1000 people there and I get the impression it was a bit of an honour for them to have white people there. It was an honour for us, but we didn’t understand a word of it and some felt the highlight was pizza hut on the way home. Peter also learned the words to “O fluffy sheep!”
On Wednesday we went back to the orphanage and got to do some proper work with the kids, playing sport and face painting and doing some therapy. Rab and Tele were fixing bikes for them which they really appreciate. We went to the church at night face painting and singing and doing bible stories. Norm does some pretty interesting actions and the kids loved the face-painting.
On Thursday while everyone was working again at the orphanage, Rab and I went to get some tyres for their bus because they’ve been so good lending it to us. They pick up the school kids and drop them off every day and it has been wonderful that they would pick us up in the morning and lend us it at night. Beth is also getting some of the guys to paint one of the dorms with bright pictures for the kids so we picked up some paint. They take ages doing everything, I’ve never spent an hour in the paint shop before.
Some of our girls are teaching some of the girls from the church dances and drama so they’ve been meeting up with them on Thursday night and now today. They’re going to perform them on Sunday and are pretty excited about it. Also on Thursday night we went for dinner with the staff from the orphanage.
The bus driver, called Peter is a funny guy. His English is basic but he loves mucking around. He was telling us all jokes and he and I shared a whole lot of food. We agreed on everything: share it 50-50! We also ate everyone else’s left-overs! That man can eat!
Today we took all the kids from the orphanage to Camp Gloria. It’s just a quiet seaside place with walls so they can’t escape but they loved it. Cricket, Duck duck goose and football. I also danced although the kids were convinced that I wasn’t quite up to scratch. You’d be surprised to see some of the guys working with the disabled kids, it’s just lovely.
So some of the girls weren’t very well today, tired mostly. Mike is looking a lot better, he has a bug and was feeling very rough and didn’t sleep one night but nurse Tele looked after him. Everyone has been fantastic, getting stuck in.