Tuesday 13th February

Last Sunday evening we went to supper with our friends Jon Murabyo and his wife Sadris and their ever increasing family as they take in converts to Christianity and other children who have been rejected by their families. We had a warm welcome – especially as we brought chocolates from UK with us and had some good discussions about the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

 Sweets very gratefully recieved at John and Sadris's home.

 John and Sadris

On Monday Simon was back in the hospital concentrating on the medical wards while Ann went to the school and ended up teaching an English lesson to Primary 2 children, after greeting a number of teachers she had made friends with on previous visits. We returned home at lunchtime to find a note from Joyce who is helping us 3 times a week while we were here. It read “I have killed the rat – feel free” Needless to say Simon was a bit sad!

This morning again we were at the hospital seeing patients and at the school. Ann had an interesting experience watching 2 teachers trying to work out exactly who the 60 children in their class were. Despite two checks of the class a child managed to remain undetected in the crowd until the end of the second check! After that they were quite pleased that Ann taught another lesson. Following that, at breaktime, a travelling salesman came to the staff room to hold forth for a very long time about all the benefits of Aloe Vera! You would not believe what he claimed it would do!

 Later in the day we went to join in with the Rainbow “room”, which is now being run well by a social worker called Ruth as a place where children can play and patients can talk with one another in a relaxed shady spot in the hospital. We used puppets, as we have before, to do a little health education with the help of a lovely nurse called Harriet.

 Playing catch outside the Rainbow room.

The Rainbow play room for children who are in patients on Paediatric ward.

It has rained here for the last three nights which has brought the temperature down to a pleasant 26 degrees and cleared the air so that as you can see the mountains better , as shown in the photo of the school playing field  which we took whilst trying to get some milk from the farm.

 Clear view of the Rwenzori Mountains now that it has rained.

Beautiful Bourganvilia in the garden in front of Karibu house where we are living.