Wednesday, July 3, 2019

It has been such an incredible last few days that we have gotton to experince. We arrived on Sunday afternoon and was welcomed by some rain, this made the car ride to Suubi house an intresting one. With the wet roads came cars zooming around eachother, driving on the oppoiste side if the road and many gasp as we passed pedestrian we thought were going to get hit. It is safe to say they have their own way if driving that definitely works for them.
Later that night we went to the village where we were indroduced to all the kids. This was a beautuful moment for us as they all came to greet us, ask our names and held our hands. We then played together, sung songs and learnt some dances and others played card games.

Monday was a recovery day for us, we started the day going shopping and scoping out the things we woukd want to buy as well as seeing where the best prices were, out bartering skills were being put to the test. After this we went to a super market and picked up some foods we would give to the families we are going to visit in the slums. This consisted of pocha, rice, sugar, oil and soap. Later that afternoon we went back to the village and played lego with the children. 

Tuesday was jamed packed and got all of us working hard. We spent the day at the village rendering the outside of the houses. The render was made out of sand, mud, molasses and cow manure thst had to get mixed together. This is something none of us will forget any time soon. We ended up rendering 11 houses. We were all exhusted after a day out working in the heat, but the feeling of completeing this and knowing it was helping them was definitely rewarding.





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