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Brilliant day today. Spent this morning hosting a Sports Day for the local children, and it was truly magical. We did certificates for the first three in each raced, and they also received a wind-up radio each from us – you should have seen their faces! Our kids were superb in the way they organised the whole event – a credit to their country.
This afternoon we all visited the Mt. Meru market in Arusha to start our shopping for traditional African handicrafts to take back home with us. There were some amazing bargains to be had - so long as you had the bottle for some hard bartering. I myself started on the job of buying several hundred pounds worth of goods to take back home for my wife to start raising funds for our next project in Africa, (a quick commercial break for our Africa Handicraft Sale later this year - invites will follow!)
Just to say that I haven’t been reading the diary entries from the pupils – so there has been no editing or censoring – I believe that this is for the best, and allows them to write freely. However, apparently some parents are a little concerned over some of the incidents that have happened regarding border crossings, corrupt officials, sleeping out in the bush with hyenas, and so on. You have to accept that there will be some ‘slight exaggeration’ in what we write – just to add to the events! I can say with all confidence and honesty that the safety and well-being of the pupils has never been in question, you can rest assured that everyone is safe and sound. The events that have occurred are just part of what this trip is all about – the unexpected, the third-world conditions, the wildlife, the poverty – the experience would be worthless without all this, and this is exactly why I brought your sons and daughters here in the first place. Trust me!!
Peter
Good Day Bell Family!!
Having a great time here at Meserani Snake Park! A fab experience. Just taken part in a sports day that we helped organise which was great! And we are about to go for some retail therapy in arusha! yessss prezzies for all! Anyway being hounded by sophie to go wash my pots up… the usual me!
see you all soon lots of love sarah bell! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p.s sorry about the lack of poetry haha
Jambo
Another quick entry about yesterday and this morning. Yesterday morning was a bit tedious, shopping for Lesiraa school but the afternoon made up for it with an insight into the maasai culture including eating goat from the bone a and eating bone marrow. The bone marrow was surprisingly nice. This morning we had the sports day with the locals. I took part in the 100m but didn’t do to well. The final event was a race to eat the chocolate bun, find a sweet in the flour, and dunking for an orange, all with no hands. We managed to persuade Peter Swan to take part and made sure he was covered in chocolate, unfortunately for us he came 1st and will no doubt make sure we remember.
Tuto Onana Sam
Jambo
Sorry I haven’t said much. A lot has happened since I last wrote anything. For the past couple of nights we have camped in the messarani snake park. We have visited Lesiraa primary school and had a barbeque in a Maasai village. Earlier today we have held a sports day. We made peter swan take part and covered him in chocolate.
Lala salama
Peter Sut
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