Sunday 20th January 2013

- Sunday afternoon 1.45pm and I'm here in the office about to do work!!!!! Thought I'd left that behind me. However there is nothing else for me to do and once I'm established I can assure you I won't be working on a Sunday!!!! It’s just some documents that I want to read to get information about the school etc.  It’s really very hot at the moment. Another reason that I decided to do a wee bit of work because this office has air conditioning & there is no-one else here at the moment. So I’ve got it all to myself.

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              This morning I was out at a village about 10 miles outside Makeni to go to mass. It’s a small church and therefore not as crowded o as hot as going to mass in the Cathedral in Makeni. It was also very informal and colourful. Great music and dancing throughout mass. One of the kids was dressed in a Celtic strip!! The children are absolutely lovely. They are well dressed and look very healthy. Many of them were dressed in their Christmas clothes. Coming out of mass some women and a group of children came running up to us because they heard that we were working in St. Joseph's Hearing Impaired School and they had a child with them whom they said was deaf. So Sr. Mary arranged for the family to bring the little boy in tomorrow and Monica will test his hearing. Monica is an audiologist from England who is also here as a volunteer and working at St. Joseph's H.I. School

     On our way home we called into a Limba  village to check up on a few children who still haven't returned to school from the Christmas Break. It was a lovely village with many traditional mud huts. They are round with straw roofs. Then we went to the Supermarket. There are two supermarkets in town and are well stocked with European goods. It’s expensive but it’s good to be able to buy a few treats.