well it's my last saturday in lalibela, which is sad! i'm happy to be going home for christmas and to see my family, but i really love my life here and will miss the kids and staff tremendously!!
we have all been very busy here, we started our gardens last week and the kids and ayatil have really embraced the whole project. they all selected a couple of garden beds each and dug them all up by hand themselves, even the girls. the girls were lucky to find around 20 potatoes in their garden beds, leftover from the previous occupiers gardens. i helped them boil them all up and they had a very yummy feast of potatoes and salt, which they were pretty chuffed about! every morning at 6am they wake me up when they fill their watering cans and empty oil bottles outside my window, but i don't mind because i like seeing them so enthusiastic about watering their own little plots of earth :)
we also started a compost heap the other day, so hopefully we shall have some good compost by the time i come back.
oh! we acquired a new family member today! two, actually. we had been looking for a pregnant goat or goat with a kid because we want to start getting some milk, but all the goats we had priced were very expensive. so we were putting it off until we had the money- we don't even have a refrigerator yet due to lack of funds, so a goat was not high up the list of priorities.. but today the perfect goat kind of fell into our laps, so we had to buy it! S's brother buys a live goat for his family every saturday and today he bought a particularly fat goat thinking it would have alot of meat. however, when he took it to the butcher to have it slaughtered, they told him it was pregnant and they didn't want to kill it as it was due to have the baby anytime now. somehow he knew that we were looking for such a goat and long story short, we now have a pregnant goat at 1/4 of the price we otherwise would have paid! we named the goat valerie and the kids are all very excited about the new addition to the family and i think ayatil is secretly thrilled too, being a country guy. we had a photo shoot this afternoon and i am looking forward to coming home so i can post some pictures finally!
apart from agriculture, things are fine. there was no school yesterday and seems that when the kids aren't occupied, they fight like brothers and sisters.. and it always happens when im home and S isn't so i have no idea who the culprit is and usually comfort the wrong kid only to find out later that i had things backwards and was hugging the naughty kid and seding the wrong child to their room.. but it all works outn in the end. last night ayatil organised a meeting in the boys room with all the kids and he was giving them good avice about how to act decently. S and i spied on them through the window and it was very cute! he's so good with them all, and they all adore him.
ok must go
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