The uk volunteers all prepared a short thank you in Swahili and read it out to their families, then host families gave gifts. It was a really nice day and even well worth all the washing up at the end!
It's starting to get really hot now and this afternoon it was scorching! Typical that now I've had more jumpers sent out it starts to get hot!
Tomorrow there's an event in our village, one of the political parties is hosting it and my host mummy is on the organisational committee. Her role is to meet, greet and seat people. She's told me that there will be 600kg of rice made and that the political party are also slaughtering a very large cow to be consumed on the day. I was concerned as I thought that the cow was going to be sacrificed at the event but she assured me it would be done the day before and the only time i'll see the cow was once it had been cooked...... How wrong she was. When I was walking home from the event today I unfortunately stumbled across the slaughter slight just in time to accidentally see the cows head been hacked with a Panga! I will definitely NOT be eating any meat tomorrow!
Animal update: I've got bed bugs : ( think I must have picked them up at one of the hotels in town. They're not dangerous but the bites are extremely itchy and annoying. On Wednesday I stripped all my bed and put the mattress outside in the sun for a day, scrubbed the bed frame and swept and mopped my room. However I made the mistake of googling bed bugs and as a result I'm feeling rather dismayed as without boiling hot washes in a machine and using a pesticide company (which they don't have here) it seems that it's pretty much impossible to kill the damn things! Fingers crossed my efforts will have been successful and the little buggers will be no more.....
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