Tuesday 14th

Tuesday April 4th
Today dawned sunny and hot. Got to breakfast on time in fact I spent a little time in the boukerou (a gazebo with thatch) looking over the lesson for today. A little tyke who lives in the compound and attends our classes must have seen me go in for soon he appeared in the opening with his younger sister. I had taken a picture of his sister asleep in the grass under a tree yesterday so I pulled out my camera and let them view it. They giggled to see the photo but we talked little because they speak French almost entirely. Our lessons are about Peter and yesterday was about his denial of Jesus. Today was Peter at the tomb on resurrection Sunday. The day was pretty much without incident. Ann-Corrina and Josiah two of our aides will start school and will no longer be available. We will miss the both. They were great with the children; considerate and very helpful.
At lunch I sat near Gretchen who is as I have mentioned a cousin to my niece Gretchen’s husband Ted. She and Nancy immediately started asking me questions about stories on my blog. It seemed a bit redundant since they were quite up to date on the facts. We had a great lunch with lots of laughs and great food. Gretchen will be speaking to our group this week and wants to play some Spite and Malice that night. Reminds me of Key West for some reason.
Tonight after supper there was an invitation to go to the basketball court over at the Center to learn Scottish dancing. I was the only one interested but some of the others wanted to go over there and do some exercise walking. I tagged along and watched the dancing for a while. It was very similar to the square dancing I used to teach my fifth graders. After they learned a dance and completed it I walked down into the area. Many of my kids were there and wanted me to stay but I chose to leave and come home with the team members who were ready to go by then.
After we were buzzed in at the gate we started down the side walk a toad jumped out of the bushes right in front of Ann. She claimed earlier in the evening that she was not a dancer but she invented a few new steps with a little bit of ooh and aah music to go with it. A little farther down the walk Ann stepped into the grass and behold another creature startled into another short bit of spontaneous and very tricky choreography but no original lyrics. It sounded much like the first. Then came the task of scrubbing her muddy tennis shoes but ... Shhh you’ll have to ask her about that.
We met an Abigail from Abilene tonight. Actually she was from Wichita and her parents are both doctors. Did not get the last name but she is will be here working at the FES that I will be helping with for the last week in Africa.
We have many visitors here at this time so band width is a problem but my radio show came on at ten o'clock PM here so I listened to me for a few minutes.