A slightly weird week
No more rain, monday the sea was dumped on us and since then it has been dry, but nicely not as warm as before. The sky is suspiciously cloudy today though hmmmmmmm. we did go and see a film in the end, Take the Lead with Antonio Banderas, it was great, reeallly girly, and less than a pound to watch it, bargain! although compared to other east african coutnrries mozambique is quite expensive, a bottle of coke can cost up to 30p compared to ugandas 12p.
The cinema was massive, much bigger than any of guildfords screen, and really packed as well, our team of four and one other lady sat on her own. They had an interval and when we realised what was going on we all burstinto laughter. not entiirely sure why, i think than the sun has sent us all a bit loopy, we laugh at really random things, Although we do and say some truly stupid stugff as well, we have started a book calle dthe little book of funniness and silliosity, where we write random stuff, like lizzie ordering a fanti ovo (egg) instead of fanta uva (grape) or sophioe saying that the food weas taking so long to arrivebecause they were pluckingthe cow!
Lat week was a really hard week for all of us, Sophie and amber had their first full week of work, and yesterday they had a surprise wedding at their chuurch, so they got their for nibne and got home at 20 to five, time to wash their feet and run out to international fellowship. Lizzie is till feeling rough, with what we thought was just tonsilitis and possible malaria (how do you get tonsilitis out here) but now we arent so sure so she has had antoher blood test today. So i hhave been going to vaz without her, taking various other peeps instead, so was completely shhattered by saturday. It was great though as the youth went away for the weekend somewhere so i fuond out on friday that i didnt have to do anything on staurday, yay, major lie in!!!!
But we are all really looking forward to our retreat two weeks today!
There were ood points about the week as well though, like the film and fun in the rain/flood and i now know the portuguese for tonsilitis (amygdalite) which is bound to be useful at some point. We also (except lizzie) went to lees house of blessing for the first time on thursday which was so much fun. we all went down to the beach, slightly worried that lots of the girls had changed to swimming costumes but didnt really think muchof it. So we got down there and rolled up our trousers to go in for a paddle, but the girls had other ideas and we ended up getting completely soaked, and worn out. It was really funny, one little girl called maria held my hand the whole time and kept announcing, 'we go running', so we did, and then fell over in the water, shame. Wegave up in the end and started playing ring a roses and 'it' in the sea. Then while sophie and amber had their hair 'beautifully' plaited i played lots of frisbee! cant wait to go back next week,. they are all so cute.
We had much fun coming back from church last night as we got a lift from jim and jane and the four of us were rolling around in the back of their truck, it was great as we had all been really wanting to ride in the back of a truck for ages, and in the dark its even better. Their little son felix was poking his head through the back window to talk to us, io think he thought we were a bit strange though, laughing hysterically and taking photos. But he is soooo sweet, its really weird hearing a little person with an english accent, he sounds posh!
Lizzie and Ihad a particularly enjoyable time food wise on saturday, for tea we had emergency rations porridge, actual emergency rations why?, with some squash that tasted more like medicine. so after eating as little as possible we were really hungry by dinner. Then all of a sudden there was a really hoorrible smell, imagine wet dog, cabbage, cheese and fish alll mixed together, we were quite scared going in for dinner. it turned out to be really salty matapa with hot dogsinit. again why? sadly we were so hungry we had to eat it, but now we have bought biscuits to keep in our room in case it happens again. I think that when we next go to shoprite we will be investing in nutella as well.
Still no sign of our friend Gecko, although his younger cousin Gecko Junior showed up briefly the other day!
In other news we are all getting alot better with Prtuguese, as well as being able to tell people that Lizzie has tonsilitis (although the average mozambican hasnt heard of it) i can say that she is a little better but very tired, and we are getting very good at directing taxi drivers to our house. Taxi are funny here, you can never be sure that they will com to the right place to pick you up as no-one knows street names and the houses arent numbered, so you have to use landmarks, great for learning prepostions. Or you can teach a taxi driver here you live and always ask for that one, far easier.
Those of you with a delicate nature should stop reading for a minute. Lizzie and I found out last week that as well as not being able to flush the loo we also cant put toilet paper down it, oddly we are not very happy about this, can't imagine why!
So please keep emailing and praying especially as we are all getting really tired and of course for Lizzie. XxX
The cinema was massive, much bigger than any of guildfords screen, and really packed as well, our team of four and one other lady sat on her own. They had an interval and when we realised what was going on we all burstinto laughter. not entiirely sure why, i think than the sun has sent us all a bit loopy, we laugh at really random things, Although we do and say some truly stupid stugff as well, we have started a book calle dthe little book of funniness and silliosity, where we write random stuff, like lizzie ordering a fanti ovo (egg) instead of fanta uva (grape) or sophioe saying that the food weas taking so long to arrivebecause they were pluckingthe cow!
Lat week was a really hard week for all of us, Sophie and amber had their first full week of work, and yesterday they had a surprise wedding at their chuurch, so they got their for nibne and got home at 20 to five, time to wash their feet and run out to international fellowship. Lizzie is till feeling rough, with what we thought was just tonsilitis and possible malaria (how do you get tonsilitis out here) but now we arent so sure so she has had antoher blood test today. So i hhave been going to vaz without her, taking various other peeps instead, so was completely shhattered by saturday. It was great though as the youth went away for the weekend somewhere so i fuond out on friday that i didnt have to do anything on staurday, yay, major lie in!!!!
But we are all really looking forward to our retreat two weeks today!
There were ood points about the week as well though, like the film and fun in the rain/flood and i now know the portuguese for tonsilitis (amygdalite) which is bound to be useful at some point. We also (except lizzie) went to lees house of blessing for the first time on thursday which was so much fun. we all went down to the beach, slightly worried that lots of the girls had changed to swimming costumes but didnt really think muchof it. So we got down there and rolled up our trousers to go in for a paddle, but the girls had other ideas and we ended up getting completely soaked, and worn out. It was really funny, one little girl called maria held my hand the whole time and kept announcing, 'we go running', so we did, and then fell over in the water, shame. Wegave up in the end and started playing ring a roses and 'it' in the sea. Then while sophie and amber had their hair 'beautifully' plaited i played lots of frisbee! cant wait to go back next week,. they are all so cute.
We had much fun coming back from church last night as we got a lift from jim and jane and the four of us were rolling around in the back of their truck, it was great as we had all been really wanting to ride in the back of a truck for ages, and in the dark its even better. Their little son felix was poking his head through the back window to talk to us, io think he thought we were a bit strange though, laughing hysterically and taking photos. But he is soooo sweet, its really weird hearing a little person with an english accent, he sounds posh!
Lizzie and Ihad a particularly enjoyable time food wise on saturday, for tea we had emergency rations porridge, actual emergency rations why?, with some squash that tasted more like medicine. so after eating as little as possible we were really hungry by dinner. Then all of a sudden there was a really hoorrible smell, imagine wet dog, cabbage, cheese and fish alll mixed together, we were quite scared going in for dinner. it turned out to be really salty matapa with hot dogsinit. again why? sadly we were so hungry we had to eat it, but now we have bought biscuits to keep in our room in case it happens again. I think that when we next go to shoprite we will be investing in nutella as well.
Still no sign of our friend Gecko, although his younger cousin Gecko Junior showed up briefly the other day!
In other news we are all getting alot better with Prtuguese, as well as being able to tell people that Lizzie has tonsilitis (although the average mozambican hasnt heard of it) i can say that she is a little better but very tired, and we are getting very good at directing taxi drivers to our house. Taxi are funny here, you can never be sure that they will com to the right place to pick you up as no-one knows street names and the houses arent numbered, so you have to use landmarks, great for learning prepostions. Or you can teach a taxi driver here you live and always ask for that one, far easier.
Those of you with a delicate nature should stop reading for a minute. Lizzie and I found out last week that as well as not being able to flush the loo we also cant put toilet paper down it, oddly we are not very happy about this, can't imagine why!
So please keep emailing and praying especially as we are all getting really tired and of course for Lizzie. XxX
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