Due to some problems with their host family Alicia, Joanne, Rae and Maya have moved in with us at May Appiah's. So there are seven of us in the same house now. There's been a lot of illness this week. Everyone in our house bar Michael, Eddie and Rae has been ill in some form. I was invited along by Wassif to join the Muslims gathering to mark the end of their fasting. There where too many for the mosque so they all gathered outside on the sports pitch. They mostly wore long robes, but the occasional younger one was in smart trousers, shirt and shades, which, having given his robe to me, is how Wassif was dressed. We were outside for over an hour in the sun. I had no hat, no water and no
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