The Magnificent Seven!

Well - here are the magnificent seven in all their glory! They are a group of miscreants, sorry I meant men, from the UK collected from various churches in Clifton Parish. And who could possibly confuse them with the seven dwarfs?! They have come to work on T-house for two weeks, and have been absolutely amazing from day one! They are tiling, painting, glass fitting, gardening; you name it, they can do it! They have a rigorous schedule which they have been avidly following with every enthusiasm...and we even gave them a day off on Sunday, and dragged them out to Lake Burare. When this picture was taken, none of them knew ust how wet they were about to get. Only moments later a mad dash was made for the car! Thankfully the rain stopped again just long enough for us to stop in one more place for a photo opportunity,

before five minutes later another mad dash was made for the car. Not to be beaten by the weather, we headed for Uganda...well it might have been dry there! It was quite exciting stepping across the barrier...our driver convinced us we could do it without being shot by the guard...and it turned out he was right!

Today the men have been into a local village with sugar and soap in the same way we went in our first week...I was meant to be going with them but have had food poisoning or something for the last three days so am still recovering. I still don't really know what caused it, because the only dodgy thing I can remember eating was an apple that I didn't wash, and which tasted a bit strange...and I don't see how one little apple can cause so much trouble (I think Eve probably thought something very similar...except I have to be specific&point out that it wasn't necessarily an apple in her case!) On Tuesday morning I was sick ten times between 1am and 10am, every half an hour in the early hours of the morning!!! What fun it was! I am very very glad to be on the mend...and was even more glad to stop being sick after the doctor threatened me with a drip if I didn't keep drinking. They've had me on this disgusting oral rehydration salt stuff...eugh...I cannot describe how horrid it is....but it has all the electrolytes and so on that you need if your insides are on their way out in as many ways as mine were! I've tried to eat today just so that I can stop drinking that revolting stuff! Anyway, since I am feeling a bit better at the moment, I'm going to go and peel some potatoes...whether or not I'll be able to stomach them when they're made into shepherd's pie is another matter entirely! Though Pam does make a fantastic shepherd's pie...