The Kiddlywinks...

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After promising for so long, I have finally come through with the goods. Here are some pictures of my kiddies. We ran into a few of them on Saturday a week or so ago (not all of them come to the orphanage on Saturday, a lot of them stay home with their guardians, so I’ll get some pictures of them another time) - they had been taken to the ice cream shop as a treat. As you can see, they are massive posers! Nelly is my clear favourite. She is the cutest kid in the world. And, she also said to me the other day as I was about to leave, ‘Usiende nyumbani,’ which means ‘Don’t go home.’ So that made me like her even more!

Yesterday at school the kids were asked to make words out of the sounds ‘ba, be, bi, bo, bu; ca, ce, ci, co, cu, etc.’ They each had to do one set of sounds. So one did the Bs, then another kid did the Cs, and the one that did the Ds went something like this:

Dad, den, dig, dog, duck.

Pendeza (think I posted a photo of her a while ago) was next with the Fs. She wrote ‘fat’ and ‘fed’ and then seemed to get a bit lazy, so she just started copying from the Ds. She ended up with this:

Fat, fed, fig, fog……..FUCK.

The teacher and I were quite amused. Fortunately, they are six and seven year old kids who speak very little English, so they didn’t understand what she’d written!!

Peace Out xoxo

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Photos

Nelly the elephant
Cutest kid in the history of the world.

Would you still be friends with me if i looked like this?
Sorry, forgot to put this one on the other blog.

B and kids
Justin, Sammy (back), Kea (on my knee) and Rosie

B and the boys
Benny, Kea, Justin.

Excuse the devil eyes
Me, Benny and Mary.

Loving the camera
Kea, Sammy and Benny.

Stick 'em up...
Lucky, Sammy and Kea (apologies that Kea is in every photo!!! he quite enjoyed it).

Justin
K's favourite (besides Nelly)...must be something about the name.

ooh...that's gotta hurt.
Lucky doing the splits.

Get excited
Manu, older bro of Sunday. They also have an older bro called Johnny, although he wasn't there that day.

Sunday
Who always wears his brother's uniform. The shirt goes down to his knees, and the shorts to his ankles. And he constantly has his shoes on the wrong feet.

Comments

[Michelle]

Kiddlywinks and devil eyes...
Gorgeous!!! The kids that is, NOT THE EYES!!!! Good lord that is bad!! Hope your eyes are feeling better, i will email soon, also have the new powderfinger album so will send you some songs!! Miss you as much as you (hopefully) miss having white eyes! Luv michelle

[weena]

Thank you dear
Eyes are much better now! Very relieved... thanks for your email and songs. i hear powderfinger and silverchair are doing a concert together. that would be brilliant - so shattered i can't see it. okie dokies, peace out.

[Medusa and da boys]

Love the Kids!
Soory it has been such a long time but I've finally finished reports. I feel human again. "Human" is something that you didn't resemble with your Satan Eye. Pete thinks you two had a punch up and not sick eyes. It was really yucky. The kids look as if they would kep you on your toes. It was a littel difficult working out you in the group. Silly Sam is on camp. I say "silly" because he is the only one who could go on camp and leave his "beeping slag" and towel at home. Me thinks he thinks he is at some fancy holiday resort. He did take a pillow. That may have more to do with waking up with bed hair than comfort. It is alsmost hols and I'm looking forward to it. I promise pics of the house and news when that happens. Cheers! Love Medusa XXXX