Monday 30th July 2007

Today started with dropping Kathryn at Akanyijuka for school and it was good to see Prossy and Moses both appearing well and in good spirits, Moses was his cheeky self again.  Here are some school photos of Kathryn’s class.  We are looking into school uniforms soon so they don’t wear out their other clothes.  We then headed to the local Caltex to get a punctured tyre fixed.  The price was through the roof – 3,000 shillings – that’s AUD$2.10 and included putting the tyre back on and the spare away, I imagine they would charge that much back home to just change a tyre. This afternoon we met with VCCS to put together a board specifically for Akanyijuka as we thought it would be best to put a structure and policies in place before we move on more.  It will be easier to do that now that we are small rather then later when we are bigger and we thought it best to get a board in place to do those things.  We have started them but a board should be in place to approve them.  The board ended up being Pastor Edward, Robert (a secondary school teacher), Erica and myself. But the highlight of the day came at 9 pm in the evening when we were all relaxing after a bible study just talking and thinking of the future etc, and Kathryn said I can hear dripping water.  When we went to investigate what was happening we found that water was dripping, probably faster than the hot water in our shower (which is pretty slow), from the ceiling in our bedroom.  When we investigated, a join in the piping in the ceiling had started leaking.  It is no wonder why as the rubber that they had used to seal the two pipes that butted up against each other had come off.  So we used the only means we had to fix it – electrical tape.  This seems a bit dodging indeed, but when you see what else is up in the ceiling then it does not seem too bad at all.