Easter

Having been busy all last weekend we thought that Easter weekend would be a bit of a break but this is wellspring so it was not to be. Good Friday was school sports day and Saturday was to be fun factory.
Sports day was to begin at 8.am with a march through the 'town' preceded by a band. All the juniors and the secondary school plus most of the staff would march behind. It was to be a 45 minute march to a local hotel where we would meet parents. The infants and nursery pupils were coming by the school bus😃.
However we awoke to  a torrential downpour and when it rains everything is postponed (temporarily). There do not appear to be contingency plans here! The rain started to diminish about 9.30am so we set off. No raincoats in evidence so I'mthe children did get a little damp. I don't know what was more interesting - negotiating the enormous puddles which had filled our rutted roads or negotiating the heavy traffic which is always a problem. Just how heavy the traffic was became evident as we walked - most of it was stationery and it took the bus over two hours to complete the same journey.
As the lower school had not arrived, David and I found ourselves teaching the okey cokey to the junior school in front of the parents. After an hour it became evident that the infants were greatly delayed so the juniors performed an army style display thus explaining the reason why they had all carried large sticks! Finally the bus arrived but by now the programme was two hours late. Thus the programme was greatly attenuated but watching the junior relay showed why the olympics were dominated by those of African origins! Sports day was due to end at 2pm  but went on longer despite having cut many of the races.
Saturday was fun factory! About 150 local children appeared, many of them were under 10 and some as young as 18 months. Having disco (ed) with about 4 or 5 children hanging on each arm, we broke into three groups of about 50 children per two adults to play games. Many of these children do not attend school and have little English but I had come prepared and had a pocket of balloons and we managed some team games. Then bean bags! Later we performed our 'open the book' Bible story involving some of the children and dressing them in costume. Finally we gave out drinks and donuts (made by the cook) and each child left with a sweet or a biscuit. The whole event had been run like an old fashioned children's party
.Sunday began with church then we had invited the physiotherapist and his friend for a traditional Sunday roast! He had never experienced one before. David made amazing roast potatoes! We also managed to wish our own children a happy Easter on Skype as they were all together for the day.
On Monday we went shopping on the matutu (local bus) and had lunch out with a mizungas who lives locally and her Ugandan fiancé. We finished our weekend watching one of our DVDs on our tiny portable player.
So that was our Easter. Yours was probably a bit more peaceful!