After our trip to Dar we where quickly back into the grove of things as there was a Volleyball tournament for the secondary schools being played. It was really interesting to watch the players some have great ability to jump so high and was good to see also the girls teams showing some great technique. In the end we had really good prizes to give away for the teams that finished in the prize places.
My sister has been sending SDA pens from Ireland that have been rejected, one package everyday, so we have been giving out those pens as prizes for the best players of each game and also quite many to the third places teams for both boys and girls. It was interesting to see the reaction of one boy when he got the pen, he ran away to his teammates and showed it off, he was really happy just to receive this pen, which meant he had some bragging rights with his other teammates.
This week has been quite slow as not only are the Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan so there has been loud music for the last couple of nights but also because Annukka AND I both had malaria! We have had some symptoms but thought it couldn't be malaria as the symptoms where not that bad but in the end we had a test and Annukka beat me as she had 4 parasites compared to my 3 in our bodies. After a quick trip to the shop to stock up on juice and water we went to bed to rest and let the tablets take care of the malaria.
After a couple of days rest (or trying to rest) another trip to the hospital and yes, thankfully all the parasites where gone this time. Unfortunately due to this untimely illness we missed a trip with Kanda and Sofia to Songea to celebrate their wedding send-off. Maybe we will take the trip another time during the year.
With no schools to visit and resigned to bed for the best part of three days we have been trying learn some more Swahili which hopefully we can remember it when the time comes. We have been lucky as the electricity has been on for most of the week so it hasn't been to hot in the bedroom at least we can have the fan on.
Also this week we have been tidying the storeroom. We got a fundi to install some shelves around the whole storeroom after we went through all the boxes sorting out the clothes we have been over the last two days putting the clothes and other sports equipment back inside, and it looks really good now. No mice or rats or any other strange animals to report living there.
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