Uh Oh!

So we have been a little lackadaisical in our water treatment recently, and both managed to catch some weird disease that makes us look like this!!

Haha! Just kidding! We were bored one night and so decided to take some weird pictures - there's not a whole lot to do at night in Morogoro! We have a new housemate though! She's a VSO volunteer called Fran, and she's awesome! (Check her blog out - http://franbruty.blogspot.com .We're having a great time with her, and she even brought movies that she's letting us watch! We had a real treat a couple of nights ago - popcorn, Sprite and a movie! Yay! We've been doing more and more work at the school and are having so much fun. Below is a picture of our recorder lesson! They are sitting in the new canteen that is still being built ( I think we annoy the builders somewhat) and in the background is the kitchen and composting buckets! Notice in the picture how they're all holding the recorders the right way around! Such progress! Today we mastered Hot Cross Buns, and were singing very, very enthusiastically. We also tried a round of Row, Row, Row Your Boat, which still needs some practice ;) One of the girls, Sharifa has a particular talent of blowing the recorder through her nose. We hope it's just a joke, as we haven't seen her play it any other way! We're also very excited as we're having dresses made for us as we speak! We bought some kitenge material and took it to the tailor and asked (mostly in Kiswahili) for what we wanted! We'll see how it turns out! Tomorrow morning, bright and early, we're leaving for the Maasai village ( a ten hour drive) with Polly, Martha, and Malaki, a tiny little Maasai who's coming with us. There's only four huts in the middle of nowhere apparently (we're imagining the village from the Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton)! We'll let you know how it goes!

  

Saraphina, Salome, Adolphina and Mwanaisha playing the recorders!