Matches

We are back in the city! We came in for a few reasons…
First Bryan had a sore on the back of his head that looked to be infected
Second this past weekend was Iron Chef
Third helping with a training session for Response Corps
Fourth Africare
Fifth chickens

The sore on Bryans head turned out to be more staph. Bryan and I are puzzled by these reoccurring infections around the body… in Bryan’s words, “I am not one of those volunteers who thinks they don’t have to bath!” My words, “You’re married!” No but really we are doing our best to keep clean and take care of ourselves in the village. Crazy thing is that two other people are in on Med hold due to staph infections, luckily Bryan’s is not the worst! Today he may be released!

Iron Chef is a fund raiser where Peace Corps Volunteers sign up in groups of three and have a cooking competition. Each team is given the secret ingredient (that must be used) then they are given a few hours to shop and then they cook a starter, main course and dessert. We have judges and then the rest of the volunteers around get to sample the food cooked! It is a fun get together.

A new Response Corps volunteer arrived in Country last week and we were asked to come in to meet him and do a session on what the trainers didn’t train you. This new guy is coming to our boma, so it was fun to come in a visit with him.

We also want to visit with Africare’s head office here to just see how things are going and see if they can utilize us more.

We sold some chickens! Finally got rid of the extra roosters so they will quite eating all the layers mash food! We also got rid of a few hens. We brought in 12 total, a lot of weight! Thank God we did not have to carry them, it took both us to do what little we had too!

So… I do not know what else to say… oh so a little funny thing. The stores here generally don't have small change for you and so they normally throw in some candies, well today they are throwing in some matches!