It has been a tragic fortnight in Casa del
Crow, as our chickens staged a mass demise, much to our distress! It means that after 5 months of the relative relaxed pecking, they will now be reunited with our dog Jaffie in that fluffy place in the sky, and no doubt be terrorised by her once more! It appears that Bam Bam’s incessant
wanderings had consequences, as she brought back a disease that promptly wiped
out our happy chicken clan. We are
obviously particularly sad about our favourite sweet Mr Magoo, whose dramatic
exit from the world was most upsetting to witness. Wahhh!
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| R.I.P Mr Magoo, Petra and Bambam |
On a brighter note, we had a great week
Celebrating Children on a course run by Viva.
This was week 1 of 4 (with a week of teaching scheduled for every
month). We learnt about “understanding the child in context” (including the
question: “what does God say about children?”... hint: it’s called Celebrating
Children, so what do you reckon??) and “listening to children and child
participation”. It looks like it’s going
to be an intensive course, and we are currently peering in despair at the large
pile of notes and assignments that we have to plow through, but it was really
excellent and relevant. Noah found it
very interesting for the most part, but on occasions objected loudly to being
made to sit quietly (leading us to learn the phrase: “Awulikika nga kapa effa”,
which means “He sounds like a dying cat”).
The White Eagle Project is a bit of a
busier place these days, as we’ve recently welcomed two sweet and cheeky new
boys into the Boys' Home. Despite
having a horrible back-story, these resilient little fellows have definitely
added an additional spark of life down in the project, and Tim enjoyed playing
football with them (whilst Sarah had a slightly less exhilarating task of
poking and prodding them as part of their Annual Health Check).
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| New Synergy Players in the making! |
Things
we’ve learnt the hard way about parenting....
#2: Suppress your delight at your son’s
amazing ability to chow down his crushed antimalarial tablet without fuss. IT WILL NOT LAST!!!
You
know you’re in Uganda when....
1. You get a lengthy lecture from the police about you having followed
“improper procedure” when you call them for help in a dire emergency.
2. You are unable to open the gate to let your guests in for dinner, as
you are busy balancing a sofa mid-air, trying to hustle a precocious bat out of
the house.
3. A sound emanates from the kitchen which seems to be a cat screaming – NOPE, turns out
it is just a rat so enormous that it is able to free itself from the rat trap that is meant to ensure its instant death, and escape!
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| So perhaps we have a new pet after all? |
