So whilst the family that plays together stays together, the family that volunteers together goes their separate ways after a short while but not before much linguistic hilarity has been had! Marit and Synnove are two lovely Norwegian volunteers who are doing a couple of months at the orphanage. As is the case with many scandinavians, they speak excellent english and are decidedly quirky. Synnove's Mum has a plaster over her webcam lest people spy on her when she is emailing!!
However we were talking about one of the ladies who is ' a couple of scotch eggs short of a good picnic' and trying to explain to Synnove what this meant and in trying to get up to snuff with more idiomatic English expressions it came out later as 'four eggs too short of scotch to be fun at a picnic'!! Then again she was describing 'Uncle Fester' AKA Patrick ( french but lives in the US - need I say more!!) so she may have a point. But whilst it would be fair to say, she is a tad challenged as far as this expression goes, she has definitely got the hang of 'moist gusset' and 'slurry bum' so I really feel like I have made the widest contribution possible during this volunteering sejour;-)
So one more week to go and then we are off to Kenya - it is a strange time. We are getting to grips with lots of things now and have managed to sort out a fair few activities, some of which I hope will have some long term benefit as well as hanging out with all manner of people here. And whilst I would never want to live here, it does feel sad to be leaving nevertheless - as is the case I imagine with a lot of this type of work, it is a bittersweet experience.
But we are still going on some school uniforms, new plastificated mattresses have been delivered to the clinic - when I get home I will post pictures of the old ones - almost enough to make you feel instantly better, sponsoring of children and more health cards still to get sorted in amongst hopefully getting a nonchalant tan! Do have crappy chav marks at the moment which I am tempted to keep so I can rant on about the heat and walking around so much - but may see whether Kenya gets shot of some of them.
We have a basket teaching lady who is here for a month too and have managed to convince Uncle Fester to move from Kigali for his last 2 months so that he can carry on the work where we may not get completely sorted.
So off to the beach now for a swim in the lake before it rains again and need to figure out whether we can watch the 6 nations in our local bar tomorrow and hope that it is way less underwhelming that the Australian Open Final - so toodle pip!
