Wednesday 29th August 2007

Today started with dropping Kathryn of at Akanyijuka and giving shoes that Phil and I had bought for the new children yesterday to them.  It was great to see the reactions of the children putting on new shoes.  After this I picked up Fred for another drum lesson.  After Fred’s lesson I went to pick up Kathryn to take her for lunch as we didn’t have bread for lunch (due to the only bread that is bearable not being available for a few days).  We went for lunch at a local cafe and we both ordered pancakes, which we ended up going halves in, as Kathryn’s was burnt on both sides and I didn’t want her to not enjoy lunch a little.  Kathryn has a bit of time in the middle of the day while the children have lunch and a sleep (one and a half hours in total) and it we almost did not get back in time as they took so lunch to burn Kathryn’s lunch.  It is funny the things that you get used to here, back home we would complain about a little noise in the neighborhood, but as we were having lunch I realised that we were relaxing with some very loud noise coming from the Women’s Conference down the road.

In the afternoon when we picked up Kathryn we, as usual, stayed another half an hour to an hour to play with the children.  It is great to see how the new ones are starting to fit in and are becoming comfortable with us.  I was saying to Kathryn that the time we have is just not enough that I just wanted to go and be with them all day so that they can all get some attention.  So she said that I could come to class on Friday – can’t wait for that!