Adventures of Amy

Monday, October 14, 2013

Piglets!!!!

sleeping piggies

Feeding piglets double time!

Sunday in Mabaan

Joy on the tree swing

Love these girls and their smiles

Catrina & baby Paul

Girls enjoying tea time too

Rebeka, baby Wakay, and me

Mama's and babies

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Little Roda

Roda helping her mother, Rebeka, pulling jil leaves off the stems for lunch.

Roda & me

Playing with balloons :)

Eating maize- handfuls at a time

Just finished manicures and pedicures with Roda and the mothers. Roda helped by holding the bottle of polish while I painted all the fingers and toes. Oh, and she didn't want anyone else to hold her. She wanted to sit in my lap the whole time. This girl has a special place in my heart forever!

Donkey cart ride to Bunj (2+ hours each way)

Roda has been at our NV for nearly 1 month. She is improving but not gaining weight. So we transferred her to another hospital for further testing and treatment. I am SOOO happy to report that she is doing well. She responded to the antibiotics and started anti-tuberculosis medications. She is gaining weight :)

Also, mother, Rebeka, is due to have a baby this month!

me & Roda before we traveled to Bunj. She is wearing her new dress and headband that was donated from churches back home.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Tubing the Yabus River!

me & Diana

Who says there is nothing fun to do in Doro?? Well, we make our own fun! Take some tube from car tires and the rainy season = tubing the river. Reminds me of summertime at home. It was a great time to relax on a Sunday with new friends. We floated from Doro to the nearby town, Bunj. Got to see loads of beautiful birds and large marine lizards too. The float took over 2 hours and we had a great time!! Afterwards we all treated ourselves to deworming medications :)

Hope to be able to go again before my time in Doro has come to an end.

Cooper, need a bigger tube??

Group shot

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Bunj Market

The market

Another view of the market place. This is like going into the BIG city for us from Doro. It's about a 30-45 minute bike ride from our mud huts to here. There are many tea shops, larger meat market, many shops with produce and other groceries, restaurants, and hardware stores too. Most of these pictures are from the fruit/ veggie section of the market. There were taken by my team mate trying not to be noticed. Enjoy :)