The gang's all here!

Well it's Friday evening and we are now all together. We went to the airport to meet Martin and Dave yesterday and even then the flight was two & half hours late, as it made a detour and stop on the way! but finally after their tour of Africa they landed, it was a joy and relief to see them touch the tarmac at Biera, I thought Martin might kiss it!

We spent the evening chatting about their adventure and i was wrong - there was a plush hotel and pool involved- i think they deserved that at least!

This morning we went to Inhamizua and gave more balloons and chalk to the boys, Ruth and I taught the boys the alphabet and numbers and Anne was almost mobbed when she got out a pot of pens! We had some plastic parachute men to give to them, about 70, but when we got them out realised we had to tie the string onto the man and parachute on each one! - we decided to come back and make them at Casa Reom, however after doing a couple decided it would be a good lesson on Monday when we go back - how to make a parachute man, a do-it-yourself Blue Peter style lesson. We then went on to Dondo and gave out finger puppets, we were given lunch of Satza (a sort of maize mix) and spinach, it reminded me of my first visit to Casa Reom, the food was more challenging then, but the children loved it and ate with such enthusiasm, gratitude and almost in silence, a far cry from the students with school dinners back at home.

We visited Iris Ministries and then returned to Casa Reom. We went down to the sea where the boats were coming in for the fish market which was smelly but facinating. Tomorrow we have a day off - a real treat - and are going to Gologoza (may have spelt it wrong!) a safari park - which is beyond my wildest dreams. We have to be up at the crack of Madrugada (Dawn in Portuguese) in order to go so it will be a real adventure and hopefully we will get a taste of more of the beauty of Africa! - Madrugada - Out of Africa still!