DAY #6

Feeling much better after my major sleep. Today we worked at Mary's house again mostly carrying cement blocks to different places so that they're all in the sun so they can dry. A lot of heavy lifting. Today it was sunny all day unlike the last two days. So we went through our water quickly and Duraid had to go out and pick up some more. You should have seen us when he returned - water is GOLD!


Carolyn, Richard, Martina, Me, Claude and Chris

A bunch of kids came by and Martha was quizzing them with math problems. Then we tried singing songs. They knew the ABC song and when we tried "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" they taught us their version in Setswana (sp?). It sounded like this "Nunca, moheta, umpelo, meloma..." Their version is a bit different it goes head, mouth, ears, chest, hips, knees. They were so thrilled when we were trying to sing it with them. The kids are so great, they have absolutely nothing but they are all so cheerful and always smiling at us.





Being my careless self I caught my hand in the tree at Mary's place while hanging up my bag. All bushes and trees here seem to be covered in thorns and one just happened to get stuck in my finger right on my knuckle. The thing was so sharp!


The evil tree - that thing has fangs!

I pulled out what I could and the rest kinda just buried itself in my finger. Everytime I touched the area at all the piece of thorn that was in my finger just poked deeper and deeper in. It felt like a needle being shoved into my knuckle. Tommy, a doctor, decided that it would be best to try to get it out since we weren't sure if it would get infected. So he took whatever surgical tools he had, a swiss army knife, sat me down on a pile of gravel and dug into my knuckle. After 15 minutes of digging, me screaming, people crowded around me watching and getting grossed out, he got most of the thorn out. I know that Diego got a picture of my surgery and I'm sure that I have a delightful look on my face too! :) The local men thought it was great fun...I'm glad I entertained them a little bit. hehe!


Beautiful!!!!


"I'll have some more!" -Claude


More wine! Woo-hoo!