It's time for school!

Alexis, David & Justine went to the school where Uncle Jimmy teaches. It is an English speaking school primarily for children of missionaries who are serving in various places around Africa but some children of diplomats from other countries also attend here. Most of them are muslim but they choose to send their children here bc of it' good reputation. Above is a pic of the kids walking to school.

Justine is shadowing her penpal, Samya, at school today. Here she is (above) meeting some of the students for the first time. Alexis & David are shadowing a girl their age as well.



Ramona & I visited Uncle Jimmy's classroom - 10 Students - I believe 2 are from America and the rest are all from different countries. I shared some American chocolate with them ...Twix, Three Musketeers, Milky Way, etc. The kids took American candy to share in their classrooms today too.

After my tour of the school Ramona & I walked back home. She stopped to do some shopping at these stands along the roadside. She purchased mangoes from here...

and other produce from here....

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There's Ramona (above) doing her shopping.

While the kids are at school I'm trying to catch up on some blogging. I can't keep up! ...& the girls are having a hard time keeping up w/ their journaling too altho' they do it faithfully each night. I think David is journaling too. We have just seen & done so much "new" in such a short time that attempting to record it all is virtually impossible. It's all so very interesting.

These men were kind enough allow me to take their photo. They are getting water from this well to water plants for a small plant nursery business that they water by hand. No walls or doors for this nursery - the plants are just spread out in pots on the dirt. I was impressed w/ how healthy they looked - you can see a few here but there were more...maybe 50 or so various plants.

- Joyce

Note: I realized later that the nursery is much bigger than I realized. It's quite impressive actually - one of the nicer/bigger "small businesses" in the area. I wonder if theft is an issue since there are no walls? Perhaps they guard it at night. Not sure - just curious.