Well hello Strangers,

Goodness me it has been a long time since i updated you guys- i do apologise!

Right, well let me first start by saying im sorry also for not updating my photo album. I had planned to do it today, brought the photos on a mem stick but the PC here is a bit turd n isnt letting me add them so i will try again next week!!!

Oh and seconldy sorry if there are any spelling mistakes, as you will soon find out i hurt my hand the other day and so typing isnt too easy right now, but i'm trying my best.

Okay, so we had a lovely end to the week, thurs and fri were spent potting soil, laying the bags and pitching the seedlings- another tree nursery almost complete. We all had a lovely weekend, Sat morn was spent doing the washing. Its a bit akward cos the House Girl Rose insists on doing it with us so that we get it done properly. Our standards of cleaning are somewhat different to hers, we're quite happy to leave our socks a little muddy knowing they will only get muddier, but no Rose cleans them thouroughly! Bless her. We bought her a coke or two to say thank you for her help- she was much appreciative. KK so tht was Sat morn, in the afternoon we played various sports with some of the local school children again. It was a better turn out this week!

Sunday morning we went to church as usual but there were some Texan visitors there too who invited us to have breakfast with them, arrowroot and sweet potato...not nice!!! They are the only things that we dont like, the Texans didnt like them either it was quite funny. So after breakfast with the americanos we had the service. It was different to usual as it was done outside, and we along with the other 'special' people sat under a canopy thing, whatever its called- the thing u might have your BBQ under. Anyway, the Girls and Boys of like the Guides and Scouts did their parade and the Pastor from the church in Dallas did a short sermon.

Oh and haha yeah some people cant afford money to give as an offering so they bring things to sell instead and the money goes in the offering. Some bananas were sold, some sugar cane and a chicken....but the chicken, although tied up managed to get away and run all through the congregation! HAHA was so funny! the little american boy spent bout 30mins chasing after it. We didnt see it return as we crept out to meet the others and continue our day swimming! The weather was gorge as it usually is, we managed to swim, sunbathe and eat chips- Good times! The guys spent the whole day jumping in and competing as usual then the last hour was spent grabbing everyone else and throwin them in- i got pushed/pulled in bout 5 times! once when i had got half dress, yeah thanks guys!

Anyway, so that was the weeekend. Monday came and went without much excitement...... only joking!! We started the day clearing the fire breaks (big gaps in the forst to limit the spreading of fires) so we were hacking away at the trees etc with our pangas (machetes) when i slip and cut my hand! It was right on the knuckle of my left index finger lol. It was so deep and blood was pouring out! You could even see my bone sticking out! I couldnt look at it! Mercy our Supervisor tried to help but she didnt have a clue what to do lol so i got them to call for Nate (first aider) he was miles away bless him but ran non stop to help.... Oh he has just told me that i have to tell you how wonderful he was and how herioc he was- deary me! lol.

(Also Molly i told Nate that you weren't very happy he threw me in the mud, and when i cut my hand he was scared for me, so ended up telling me off. He didnt shout at me, Auntie Steph had just been very silly. He wanted you to know that he wasnt being horrible!)

Anway yeah so after everyone crowded round we went off to the hospital, i got 3 stitches and a tetnus jab! Got some tablets too, some antibiotics & pain killers, however i am in need of the painkillers more from my jab than my cut hand- oh well. SO yeah thats why i am finding it a bit hard to type today and why you have had to wait until now to get a new blog!

KK so after that mundane monday went to work on tuesday, just sat and watched the others work- i wasnt allowed :( LOL Tuesday evening however Jade and I were really bored so we spent bout an hour taking random photos of us being silly. We both tried climbing our banana trees but without much luck then went and harassed the animals in the garden. We made a discovery though, our dog had puppies! 4 of them, they are so cute, only a couple of days old.

SO, on wednesday we headed of to work as usual and wer told the elephants were quite close to where we'd be working so went on another 1 or 2 hour walk and found them! dont know what a group of elephants is called but i'll say herd, so yeah there was a herd of elephants, we managed to get really close- bout 50metres away! Was so cool!!!

SO yeah thats about eveything really, the last couple of days work have been alright, completing the tree nursery at the forest. This one will provide money for needy children and work for others. Also there are many people who have had to visit hospital then not been able to pay for their bills, as a result they have remained at the hospital working, some for over 10 years, This tree nursey will hopefully fund their bills and mean that they are no longer slaves to the hospital.

WE had a half day today, worked in the morning then were allowed this afternoon to prepare and pak etc for out weekend excersion to Massi Mara where we will go on Safari. Really lookinf forward to it, although we are leaving very early and have an 8 hour journey before we arrive! Good times lol.

Dont think there is much more to update you on..... My mind has gone blank!

Yep so i thnk thats bout it, hope you are enjoyin the nice weather! Will speak soon no doubt. Love you all! Stephie x x x