Books Again

Tina and I spent pretty well the whole day at the library, categorising and labelling another batch of books.  We do feel we’re making good progress, but there is still a long way to go and we are running out of some of the materials necessary.  We brought a Dymo labelling machine over with us, which is great, but totally underestimated how many spare label cassettes would be required.

Some of the books we’ve dealt with today are absolutely lovely, thanks to several publishers in the UK who have generously donated many books.  Children have been popping in all day and are keen to borrow books as soon as they can.  We felt really mean saying they will have to wait until operations have been completed.
Rachel, who used to work in the house for Josphat, and whom I first met in 2004, is a good friend.  She has now been promoted and works in the school office and we are delighted for her.

Lunch today was a rather delicious bean and whole banana stew with rice – different from what we’ve eaten before and really yummy!

At break times and after school, it’s really good to hear the children in the “yards” playing a variety of games.  Today some girls was playing with a long skipping rope, two of them holding the ends, while three or four jumped over the turning rope in the centre.