Wednesday I spent a lot of time in bed sleeping, I had not recovered from the flight or from the jet lag. I think it was harder to get accustomed to the environment because it was such a difference from Texas.
It is the rainy season now and everything is green and wet and the air is humid. The weather changed a couple times during the day from hot to cold to mild to overcast. So it is taking a sec for my body to get accustomed to the climate.
Thursday and Friday were great days. We were going to go around to the schools where we had sponsored orphans that went to school there (we pay for their tuition and take care of them at school).
I was excited to do this because it would give me a chance to meet the children and also to meet the headmasters.
So on Thursday we headed off North about 2 hours to a school called Katete Girls School. We had two orphans there which we were going to see; Princess and Andrea.
After I met them and we covered everything I walked around the school and decided to pop my head into one of the classrooms and the children were filled with delight and began singing a song to me. This made me really happy and I was going along with them for a bit and then we had to leave.
The rest of Thursday we went around to other schools and the last one we went to the headmaster was gone because the day before one of the students had been hit by a car and they were at a funeral.
Friday we woke up and got a little bit of a later start. We had a long drive ahead of us again. We visited the school again where the headmaster was gone and then we headed deep into the bush. It took about 1 1/2 hours to get to the school which is called Chulu CDSS. The girl which we sponsor there is Angela.
I am not sure what it is about these kids but they do not like to smile for pictures.
Here is Angela, I pulled her outside to get a picture of her.
The last school we went to was Chilanga School for the Blind. I was very excited to go here again, this would be my third trip.
The girl here, whom I have written about before is Teresa. She lost her sight about 2 years ago but it extremely positive, happy and smart. It is always a treat to go and see her. She always has a smile on her face except when she takes a picture with me.
The teachers says she is excelling in school.
So that was Thursday and Friday. Saturday we relaxed at Bowe and Sunday we relaxed also. Right now is the CAF Finals and Nigeria is in the finals so I am finishing writing this post at halftime so I can go catch the rest of the game.
I hope to start researching architecture here soon among all the other projects and so I will begin to spend more time in the villages and speak with the people there and spend more time with them.
We are preparing for ash Wednesday and we kind of made a joke about what we were giving up.
It went something along the lines of, "Well we could fast for lent but there is so little food to eat anyways that if we did fast then we would not be eating at all." And we laughed about it.
So I am thinking of taking something on rather than giving something up for Lent this year.
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