Day 15-Emma

Day 15 began with more eggs, beans and bread followed by a better organised team talk after another early start. Ella seemed to have the role of project manager sussed and had everybody’s roles planned and ready to hand out over breakfast. The weather was good enough for Gazza to climb trees so we could plait leaves for the new shelter to smarten up the kindergarten for the handing over ceremony. During the morning Raj managed to cut his hand opening paint with a chisel, conveniently getting him out of a day’s work and leaving Naomi and Alice to clean the floor with antiseptic wipes.

The cook team started making lunch at 10:30 as it was soup and pasta and we needed to have eaten before the buddies arrived at 1.00 however, even with the extra hour of cooking time lunch was still not ready till 1.15 luckily the buddies arrived later so we finished before they came for the rehersal of the malaria awareness play. Most of the team organising it didn’t seem to know exactly what was happening but Jess and Isaac seemed to have everything sorted and managed to explain all the instructions so the buddies could get involved.

While the rehersal was happening, down at the junior high school the murals were being finished off with only a few arrows to complete on our last project day. The unfortunate group from camp got stuck doing a water run as there was no washing or drinking water so after 5 runs there were lots of wet people with sore necks who attempted to carry the water on their heads.
We all went to bed relatively early with not many people up for playing charades and the funeral in the village beginning that we had been warned meant 3 days without sleep as there is constant music throughout the night.