Memories of 'Motormouth'

Another good week here at the funny-farm! Yesterday was a 'Parents Evening' at school where we gave out the Report cards and the parents could ask us questions. Sue was my translator thankfully and there were no major problems. Then later in the evening we all went and had a party at Dave and Esther's house (they are back living there now and we are home again!). It was a good laugh and a very good way to relax after the busy week.

Does anyone actually remember that fairly hideous Saturday morning children's ITV programme 'Motormouth'? When I was about 13 John took his youthgroup or something to appear on this TV show and I joined in and went along. My TV debut! The gist of this being that on the show we were flipping beer mats and catching coins from our elbows with the world champion! Not exactly impressive but that's not the point! I became quite good at the beer mat flipping...and yesterday strangely enough we found ourselves flipping cards and catching coins from our elbows (if you know what I mean?) Brought back strange memories! Who needs a TV eh? Home-made entertainment is the way forward!! We played various games - I haven't played Spoons since Dragonslayer days - it is as violent as ever and alas I didn't win! There was another game that quite frankly I should have won but there was clearly a conspiracy against me!! Thanks for that Mark!!

We then went out for a camp fire, it is hard to believe it is February when you spend your days in t-shirts and flip-flops!! Hurray for the start of the dry season! Having said that it did start to rain and so we returned to more games inside! I do love my life here!!

Today we went to the dedication/official opening of the Providence Children's home. Calling it a children's home does not do it any justice. It is a house that will home 8 children, looked after by a couple who will bring up and treat all 8 children as their own, thus giving them stable family life. That's it very briefly in a nut shell. It is a site where they are building 11 of these homes, a school, a clinic...you name it. It is in the early stages still, but Alfredo (heads it up) has amazing vision and it is just a matter of time.

Life here always brings something different and 2 days are never really alike. For example, yesterday afternoon, well sometime before school finished, there were lots of police and soldiers about 5 minutes up the road, cars were lined along the street. Amanda had seen all this and was telling us about it. We later found out 4 people had been murdered, well shot and I presume dead. Fun eh? Nothing for us to be scared about at all though, so panic not. It was all drugs related and they knew who they were after, it wasn't random. Exciting stuff.

Living with North Americans is also an education for me. Today is apparently Groundhog day (happy Groundhog day any Canadians/Americans reading this) and tomorrow is the Superbowl. What the heck do I know about Superbowl??? Absolutely nothing and nor does it interest me! Never-the-less, tomorrow I am going to Jennifer and Alfredo's house to a Superbowl party. Surely I should be watching the rugby?!