Blog Friday, 7-23-10 Igumbilo (from Gail H, Bruce H, Gail B, Cayla & Colleen)
(As an aside….on our trip yesterday Pr. Seth let us know the line-up of shops in Iringa including the Rafiki shop are gone to make room for internet cafes! Cayla and Gail B are in disbelief and won’t believe it until they see it themselves! = doubting Thomas’s)
It appears that Bruce H will be doing some math classes, Gail H and Colleen teaching Form III English. Cayla and Gail B are cleaning space for a garden by the laboratory and also painting. They are going to join Gail H and Colleen in the classroom for interaction time. Gail B and Cayla attended chemistry lab in the new lab. Gail said she had done the same lab assignment in chemistry class in LeMars.
All of us got into the garden plot…removing rocks, glass, weeds, roots that go forever, we also used the djembe – a three pound hoe. The soil is so hard. (We wazungus would lift the hoe and with all our might bring it down…and go into the soil about 2-3 inches. Then teacher Benne would do it and he went down 6-12 inches! Oh my) We have worked the soil once…we’ve been bringing our fruit and vegetable scraps to the garden but we compete with the chickens and pigs!
We hiked around the campus and then at supper time it must have been open house…we had 5 join us….it was great talking and laughing!!
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