Good Saturday morning, Family and Friends,
Sharon is very busy this morning, making "refrigerated" bread dough at our house for the week, from which she can make 4 loaves, one or more at any time of the week. She is then headed to the Mwangaza kitchen, to join Rachel and Helen and guide them through making orange bread for the first time. Sharon made a couple of loaves at the beginning of this week and shared some at morning chai -- it was a big hit.
Mike is working hard to not be busy this morning. Stayed in bed a bit later than usual, which felt especially good since this is probably the coldest night/morning of our time here so far, especially since is threatening rain and morning dampness will stay with us a bit longer than usual. Range of temps has been from mid-50's at night to mid-70's in afternoon, with dampness an influential comfort factor. Some laundry to do, and since they are jeans and white sox, know it will be at least Tuesday before they will be dry enough to wear.
Tonight we are expecting "company", as Mike joins Allan (driver) to met Rick Orem at Kili Int. Sue Orem mentored us in 2009-10, volunteering to share her expertise so that we in turn could mentor Mwangaza's program coordinators, John & Salome. This year Sue was not able to come here, but we are looking forward to her joining us another time.
Monday the focus officially changes to preparing for the June 11-15 seminar for teachers returning to Mwangaza (they were here in 2010 or '11) to learn more about Sheltered Instruction. Valerie arrives from Minnesota on June 11 (she is still teaching, so will jump on a plane the day after turning in 2nd semester grades) and Carolyn from Ohio joins us for the second seminar, June 25-29.
Don't worry, there will be no quiz/test regarding names, but it may help sometimes to follow our "stories" if you have a "program" to which you may refer.
Along the path
Will write more later about the first 2 weeks which have now been completed, but thought a weekend note was a good time to share some photos of folks with whom we exchanged Habari ? (How are you?) or Jambo (Hi ) as we walked to/from Marieth's last Saturday -- crossing the new and improved bridge.
Mike is carrying a small camera in his hand, with flash off, literally "shooting from the hip", so as to be less obtrusive. Since he sometimes is challenged to take a good picture when the he and the subject are both standing still and prepared, reasonably clear results are 1 in 10 shots at best.
Laundry is part of each day for each family.
No, that's not the owner! Cycle transport is big business.
Prepping for Saturday night? or Sunday church?
I remember this game, rolling round things in the dirt.
Hard to see who is saying "Jambo".
Those eyes !!
Needs no words !
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