Day 25 – Sunday 21st February 2010

Today is an exciting day as we have our first social engagement booked in the diary, afternoon tea with Cindy and Case.

First, it was off to church to support the English service. Just as well we did, as when we arrived there was no vicar and no music, and we were asked immediately to sort out what songs to sing. We all muddled through and ended with a rousing version of ‘Bread of Heaven’.

Our support doesn’t end there. Armorel is now doing some flower arranging and they have asked me to make a wooden cross for the front of church.

“John you are English so you must be a carpenter.”

I love this logic!

The rest of the morning I spent studying whilst Armorel had a meeting about the clinic. She has got her work cut out but there are some really exciting things on the horizon. Make sure we have your email address for our next newsletter as Armorel will be writing a big clinic update.

Afternoon tea was lovely, if not a little bizarre as we started off toasting marshmallows on the fire. I don’t think either of us was expecting to do that in Africa. This was then followed with tea, cake and ice cream. We were truly spoilt!

Even better was that we left with rocket for the garden and a sewing machine. Yes, a sewing machine! Cindy runs a sewing group with local Tanzanians but had a spare machine, so after a quick lesson it is ours to play with.

It is time for bed now as we both have early starts. We go to bed feeling much better about life tonight as we have water again. Well we never didn’t it would seem. The water hadn’t run out, the plumber had just switched it off and forgot to turn it back on.

To celebrate Armorel is having a proper shower, in a bucket though to save water, just in case!