Having craved chips for lunch or dinner throughout the duration of our stay, today we gave up and learnt how to make chapattis which have proven to be popular at meal times as a substitute for western food.
Lucy cooking chapatti's on the coal fired cookers with the Jubilee cook
Lara finger rolling chapatti's
The chapatti production line
In true jubilee style we made enough chapattis for over 100 children, staff and even onlookers outside the school gate. This was the product of a three hour military operation involving several pairs of hands from kneading, through to finger rolling and finally rolling out thinly to be fried on the hot plate. These went down a storm with all involved and there were even enough to bring back for dinner at Kivu.
The children lining up to wash their hands before dinner
Ellie and Miss Sibley supervising the hand washing
The children enjoying their beans and chapatti's
In between Chapatti making the students exploited Mr Hodges visit to Jubilee to begin laying and levelling the floor in the new classroom. Working with Nelson, this involved moving several wheelbarrow loads of soil from one side of the Jubilee playground into the new classroom and stamping it down to compact and level it. Mr Hill mistook one of the tools for a pongo stick and was attempting to pneumatically level the floor.
Working with Nelson to level the floor in the new classroom
Luchema Children’s Home
Work continued on the fence, held up again by the late
delivery of the fence posts from the timber yard. We are now almost half way up the final long
side. Out came the bubbles again at
playtime much to the excitement of the children – such a simple thing but it
gives such great enjoyment. This time we
had a large number of small bottles of bubbles so were able to give them to the
children to blow the bubbles. Once you
give one bottle out you were very quickly surrounded by children with arms out
stretched asking for their own bottle to play with.
Blowing bubbles with the children at playtime
Tomorrow we are off to visit the homes of some of the children who attend the school which everyone is really looking forward to as it will give a real insight into the varied and challenging home circumstances the Luchema children face. After we finished at Luchema today it was off to the supermarket to purchase a ‘goody’ bag for to give to each family as a thank you for allowing us to visit their home. Into these bags we have put some basic items – flour, sugar, salt, cooking oil, tea leaves.
Sharing out the cooking fat for home visits
Mr Hodges with our 15 'goodie' bags ready for the home visits
Football was cancelled tonight due to heavy rain so instead
we took the ball to the pool for a game of waterpolo in the rain. Mr Hodges team won based on the last goal
wins rule and the noise from the game could be heard across Kivu resort. The staff at Kivu thought we were nuts and
therefore allowed us to stay in the pool after closing.
The boys warming up in the shower after waterpolo in the rain
"Tom can you pick the soap up please?" said Oli
Finally, we have had an evening with wifi, electric and water - we certainly appreciate these things having had 24 hours without them. The lack of water in our rooms resulted in Miss Sibley washing her smalls in the bar toilet sink as this was the only place still with running water.
Miss Sibley washing her "smalls" in the bar toilet's washbasin
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