Holidays week two

Well another week has passed and I am later posting this blog because the power was off last night and we had exhausted the battery on the computer.
Anyway, this is the latest. Monday and Tuesday mornings we took a workshop on Mathematics for the teachers. Lots of 'hands-on' activities and games as can be seen by these first two pictures. It was good to see some excitement on their faces. The challenge will be to see how much they use. They have so little equipment and we can appreciate the NUMP program in NZ schools (I hear several of my ex-colleagues having a chuckle over that comment!)
While we were busy with the teacher training the boys were repairing the bikes. This photo showsJoshua and Cole helping Uncle Biira fix joshua's bike.
On Wednesday we took our two youngest, Richard and Mark, into Kampala for our shopping excursion. It was a real experience for all of us. Richard was full of 'Ai yi yi' as he saw all the traffic, and Mark loved looking at all the Toyota cars passing us. We had lunch outside at a restaurant and apart from Richard spilling his soda and dropping vegetables from his samosas on the floor it was fine. I don't think the cleaners were too pleased though. We lost Richard in 30 secs in the supermarket as he spied some bikes to ride and was off to investigate the moment our backs were turned. However, the boys needed toilets part way through so I was able to leave Marilyn to finish the shopping as I attended to that. Whew!! It was not a relaxing day out for us but we had fun. Next time we will go on our own!!

This photo shows one of the indiginous residents who come to visit daily. These grey monkeys are OK but there are some black monkeys who can be quite viscious and dangerous at times. They have attacked the dogs here.

There are more photos to come in part two