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!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
As July comes to an end...
We find ourselves in our boma (capital of the district) where Africare has a field office (the one we are placed with). They have many computers and now even wireless internet... but they do not know anything about anti virus stuff here. You see when a computer gets so bogged down with viruses they just take them in to the "shop" to get fixed... in other words in the mind of these people it is broken. But what those "shops" don't tell these people or do for them is put free anti virus stuff on. I guess that insures more business to the "shops".
Bryan being the computer wiz has taken on the job of debugging them all... a simple thing you may think but there is always that one virus that of course all computers in the same office will have that is determined not to be removed! Luckily instead of being paid (because we are volunteers and working with Africare anyway…) they are treating us like royalty, taking us out to eat, then putting us up at very nice places for the night and providing transport to and fro!
In the village…
The weather is wonderful, more of a real winter than we had last year, cool and even here in the boma cold weather! It is wonderful!
We have constructed ourselves a solar dryer… it is much better than setting the fruit in the sun unprotected from insects and falling mango flowers…
We are currently drying lots of masaw and even some papaya.
Yes our Mango trees have flowered and now they are dropping their billions of tiny pale flowers everywhere and in everything. We have even noticed tiny very immature mangos falling. They are the shape of the true ripe fruit only miniatures! Soon it will be raining mangos again!
One of our neighbor girls injured her toe and Bryan helped show her proper care to keep it clean and healthy… It looked like she had lost part of her toe when she first came over but after a deep clean we saw it was just the dirt and swelling, it is really just a flesh wound. She handled the whole thing amazingly, not one ouch or tear the whole scrubbing process, surprised both Bryan and I!
We have had so many masaw that after filling the solar dryer we decided to introduce pie to our neighbors… very simple thing and so very tasty! They all loved it a lot!
Finally I leave you with this photo… of a minibus lot. Bryan and I laughed and thought of Animal when we saw the brush (probably more like goat) guide here!
Bryan being the computer wiz has taken on the job of debugging them all... a simple thing you may think but there is always that one virus that of course all computers in the same office will have that is determined not to be removed! Luckily instead of being paid (because we are volunteers and working with Africare anyway…) they are treating us like royalty, taking us out to eat, then putting us up at very nice places for the night and providing transport to and fro!
In the village…
The weather is wonderful, more of a real winter than we had last year, cool and even here in the boma cold weather! It is wonderful!
We have constructed ourselves a solar dryer… it is much better than setting the fruit in the sun unprotected from insects and falling mango flowers…
We are currently drying lots of masaw and even some papaya.
Yes our Mango trees have flowered and now they are dropping their billions of tiny pale flowers everywhere and in everything. We have even noticed tiny very immature mangos falling. They are the shape of the true ripe fruit only miniatures! Soon it will be raining mangos again!
One of our neighbor girls injured her toe and Bryan helped show her proper care to keep it clean and healthy… It looked like she had lost part of her toe when she first came over but after a deep clean we saw it was just the dirt and swelling, it is really just a flesh wound. She handled the whole thing amazingly, not one ouch or tear the whole scrubbing process, surprised both Bryan and I!
We have had so many masaw that after filling the solar dryer we decided to introduce pie to our neighbors… very simple thing and so very tasty! They all loved it a lot!
Finally I leave you with this photo… of a minibus lot. Bryan and I laughed and thought of Animal when we saw the brush (probably more like goat) guide here!
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