This weekend, there was a big wedding in the catheral next door that we were all invited to, but after a night of being sick and fainting every 30 seconds i decided to give it a miss! The visiting doctors were not worried though, they said the change in altitude does that to most people in the first few days (also, the previous day i was having too much fun and worked too much and drank too little!) I am much better now!
My last few days, i have started a little routine. I have been put in charge of doing the physio with some of the little ones who are not doing so well. Baby M is 8 months, and is the size of a 2 month old but doesn't even have the ability of a 2 month old. He can not hold up is head yet, and is worrying all of us here! For Baby M, we are focusing on getting his neck stronger. Little J is nearly 3 and has cerebral palsy. He is very weak, and has been babied all his life so he has hardly any strength. Baby P is deaf and blind in one eye. The baby carers don't seem to understand that he cant hear. So i have researched little exercises i can do with them to build their core muscles, and maybe in a few weeks we might see improvements.
Baby J was taken to hospital on Saturday with a fever, and suspected malaria. Thankfully, her blood test cam back negative for malaria and she is a lot better now. Apart from the fact she vomited milk all over my dress this morning... I think children know when you are wearing clean clothes!
Yesterday, Ezra took me out in the truck to see the countryside (and also to pick up some potatoes). When he told me we were going to get potatoes, i imagined one of those bags you can get a the green grocers. I was slightly surprised when we filled the whole of the pick up truck with potatoes - 400kg!!
Staff meeting was interesting this morning, all the Muzungos had to sit on the benches and all the black people had to sit of the floor?! White people means authority in their culture, which the idea is going to take some getting used to (as much as i like bossing people around! I would prefer to be on the same level as them) Their Worship is cool though, loads of different harmonies and although their notes are not all perfect it sounds amazing!
This afternoon, Ruth and I feel a little bit useless. Jenny has gone home with a head ache and Ezra is taking a long lunch so we are not really sure what we are meant to be doing because all the babies are sleeping, the clothes have been washed, the food have been cooked, and the floors have been swept! Apparently 3pm is home time, except for our amazing builders who have been working at 7:30am (yawn) and finishing at 6pm, 6 days a week just so that we get a little fence and garden in front of our house!
Today's lunch was good! The past 7 days the kitchen staff have cooked exactly the same thing (no exaggeration) - rice, carrot, beans and cabbage. It is good, but slightly boring! But today we had sweet potatoes, gnut sauce and cabbage. If only they learn how to cook Lasagne for 100 people!
Well, i think i have covered all the vaguely exciting stuff... Still surviving!
ps. You can get pringles in the 'supermarket'. Seriously, this made my day when i found this out!
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