This is my entry for the week as i haven't had the internet for a week. I will try and sum up the week as best i can in the short time i have available.

I've had such an amazing week. on Monday, Tuesday, wednesday and Thursday we were building a toilet at the local primary school called Itini primary school. This is a long drop toilet so we had to dig a nice big hole and then build up the sides with bricks. I really enjoyed the first bit of the process as 3 of the local parents came along to help us dig it. They showed us how hard they could work, really showing us up! ONe of them had some of the biggest triceps i have ever seen! Mike and i were in the hole with them taking it in turns to dig and pass the dirt up while the others were moving materilas around and forming a chain to pass the dirt up.

Once we had finally finished the hole, we had to build up the sides of it with bricks. For this we had to get in a professional ason to direct us all. He was a very nice man and good at his job so while we either mixed concrete in wheelbarrows or hlped him lay the bricks, the walls got built up quickly. Sadly this meant that son some of the smaller people (ellie) couldn't reach up to put the bricks on top of each other. The next step was to put together a latice of metal poles to reinforce a layer of concrete with. This took a morning as some of the poles had to be straightened out on a tree. We had to leave the concrete to dry for a couple of days so we sadly couldn't go back the next day.

Every day we were at the primary school, 3 young boys would turn up and watch us and occasionally help us. More will probalby be there on monday as the strike will have ended so all the children will be at the school. All 3 of them were very keen to help us clean up at the end or carry water over needed for the concrete. And one called Robert really wanted to talk about all the football players he knows!

IN the evenings wwe continue to have Kiswahili lessons with Ibrahim, one of the happiest people i have ever met. We started from simple greeting to animals, family and numbers. Some people (connie) struggled a lot with the language so we weould have to constantly whisper in to their (connie's) ear what to say.

On the friday we contunued to build the elephant fence, although the total distance we have to cover is so daughnting! Anyway, it's not very tstrenuous work and its great to cat to everyone. I seem to have known everyone for ever! A school of children from Nairobi arrived on thursday evening and thought that we had known each other from childhood! I'm so so glad that i get along with all of them so well.

In the afternoon we went round all of the local famlies who own goats and gave the goats medicne by opening up their ouths and srynging it in. This was quite fun work as we got to meet a lot more people and see lots of very cute animals! Overall, we gave 92 goats the medicine they needed!

On the saturday we went to tumani woman's group, which is a group that works alongside with camps international. It is lead by a woman who they have called Mama. She is a really inspirational woan who has adopted lots of children and has helped hundreds of people in the community. She seems very well educated and understands the importance of medicine and how some of the stigma assiciated with HIV and malaria needs to be destroyed.

We helped one woman to harvest cow peas and then hit them with a stick to get them out of the pods, a very simple but effective method. This took us all day so we were supprised when she said that it would have taken 2 weeks to do it by herself! This is one of the amazing things that the womans goup does, they all help each other using the ethos of many hands makes work light. It was such a pleasure to meet Mama, she is such a huge hearted woman and it was such a pleasure to meet and work with her.