December 13th

So I’m writing this two days later, the last two days have been
quite crazy what with Emma leaving on the 15th. Emma, Solomon,
Samuel and I have been spending quite a bit of time together. I
spent the morning finishing and printing my exams for my students.
Then after lunch Tom and I spent some time working on boxes in
the barn, we finally have opened them all but we didn’t find a
few things that should be there so Karen is hoping I just didn’t
recognize them, I am too, but I’m pretty I didn’t see them. After
lunch we moved some stuff around but then I wasn’t feeling very
well so I went and lay down a bit. At about 5 Emma and I went
down to Solomon’s so she could kill the chicken. It was funny,
after she killed it she asked Solomon if she was a real African
now and he said that African women won’t kill the chickens. It
was quite humorous how she reacted but you pretty much would have
to have been there. After we finished that up, we went to the
Emmit’s house where they had dinner for us since they leave
Wednesday as well. It was quite nice, it was Emma, the Ashers, the
Mahrs and the Emmits. After that I talked with Albert from the youth
movement more about the church project in Kakamba. Following that
Emma went down to the hospital lab where she found that she is not
in fact malaria positive which is good, but that leaves her current
illness a bit of a mystery. Emma and I went down to Pa Kanu to
wait for Solomon and Samuel who were watching a soccer game. After
they got done they came over (t very far as they were right next
door). We sat there for a couple hours before heading home and
going to bed.

Blessings from Kamakwie,
Ryan Brooks