The day began for most of us when Mark, Gabriela and Emilie came back from serving porridge. Prayer time was led by Benjamin.
After breakfast (boiled eggs, bananas and long queue for toast as toasters were at gridlock) we slapped emulsion onto the table we’ve been making in the hope that it would act as an undercoat, but it turned out to be poster paint and utterly useless. Claire discovered she had disposable gloves in the first aid kit and needn’t have resembled a Jumblie with green hands (no blue head though) for the last couple of days. She finished painting the green bits on the walls at the Lodge. A range of lessons were attended by the young people. We produced several more classroom charts: this time for the bourgeois kids in ‘Middle Class’. After lunch (hideous fish stew which on a scale of 1 to 10 was mostly scales), we went up the hillside to install 4 additional tip taps (see yesterday for explanation as to what these are).
Thereafter nearly everyone bussed into town to buy a range of tat and some ironmongery for further table manufacture, and 250 bananas and other provisions for tomorrow (unluckily you won’t get the explanation for this until day 13). Back at the lodge most activities were curtailed by a regional powercut. Fortunately Mark has ways and means of making this computer work so Giles and I were not excused from writing the blog.
Love Chris and Giles