Two Blog Posts

Apologies for the late arrival of this email. As I was blogging Sunday evening the power went off for several hours which delayed things a bit. I hope you enjoy learning what a normal week entails for me, and a project Chris is getting involved in.

Normal. for Africa.

It had to happen. I've had a normal week. Nothing abnormal (apart from the African Union meeting causing the traffic to grind to a halt) has happened.

 

New experiences

The Tesfye Birhan girls came to Bingham as usual this Thursday from 4.30 to 6.00pm. The venue was the grade five classroom where a snack was prepared for them. Usually it's popcorn, half a banana and a cup of water. This week the popcorn was replaced by chocolate cake with icing sugar on top. They were more tentative about trying this. A couple of the younger girls put their finger in the icing sugar, licked it, then made a face. There wasn't much cake left over at the end however, so they overcame their reticence. While they ate they listened to a Bible story.