Week 17 at School

This week was similar to last with no real excitement.

This week was State of Origin time again and for the first time I was able to watch the game live.  It was on a The Hole, which is the pub just outside the school gate.  Disappointing result, but I was happy to have finally seen a game of league.  They actually show 4 or more games live each weekend, so I could get stuck at The Hole more often.  I watched the game drinking water as I had a 4pm meeting - the game finished at 3pm.  Guess what, the meeting was cancelled.

I finally have my shopping bus and they have even installed a comfortable seat in the back for me.  The bus is currently loaded with 10 big bags of manure for Smith campus so I am hoping the smell doesn't permeate everything inside the bus.

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We received our papers for Ajabu so have included a print and some pics of her and also included some comments from her diary:

Little Ajabu continues to thrive, but has yet to cut a tooth, despite being almost 4 months old.   (The first four infant molars are usually through the gum by the age of 4 months, so she is a late starter).

Little Ajabu at last began cutting her first molars on the 13th, with the usual loose and frequent very smelly stools indicative of teething, but whose blood test proved normal so avoided an antibiotic. A swelling on a lower jaw shows that the eruption of at least one of the four first molars is imminent. Ajabu is proving a late teether, who so far seems to be coping better than have others during this fraught process.

Baby Ajabu was allowed to go out into the bush today. All the elephants came running to be with her as soon as they saw her, but in the end it was Kihari who won out and who spent all the time “mothering” little Ajabu.

http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp?N=288

Ajabu (L) & Narok (R)

Ajabu scratches up against a pole

Ngasha gives Ajabu a helpful push

Saturday night.

Well the bus didn't smell, but it does need a sweep out.  Might get that done Monday.

Today I went to basketball and same old story, the game started late.  I had a local referee that apparently referees the Tanzanian national league. Didn't learn too much as his English wasn't great and as you already know my Swahili is non-existent.  For what it was worth I evaluated and was timekeeper for the first game, while the 2nd game was a forfeit, but they then had a scratch match which I refereed with the national league referee.

There was a few other things I was going to add, but my reminders are on my iPhone which one of the Vollunteers is borrowing to make Skype calls....you know who you are.

Tomorrow I get to watch the final day of the tour (Tour de France) and when it finishes we will have dinner - how civilised.  Beats staying up until 2am then off to work in the morning tired.  I think I will avoid speaking about the cricket or the Sharks, and the Reds.

Until next time.