Ambassador Amisadai goes to Nairobi

And she's off! In a bit of a whirlwind, excited and a little nervous, Amisadai is heading off to Nairobi for the East Africa MSMUN (Model United Nations). Tim will take her at 3:25 in the morning tomorrow to get to the school bus on time. The school group plans to arrive in Nairobi before dark. She has been busy preparing her resolution which she will be pushing to pass as Ireland's ambassador. She was delighted to hear last week that her resolution on Improving Maternal Healthcare through Mobile and Smartphone Technology was passed to present!

It was one thing to do the research, prepare her speech and learn the MUN lingo ... and another thing entirely to get her wardrobe sorted! The week event calls for business attire which is completely non-existent in Amisadai's wardrobe! The girl does not even own a pair of proper shoes! So we roamed the clothes market, rummaging through heaps of old clothes on the ground to come up with some suitable outfits and a lovely pair of high heels! One amazing find was a pair of beautiful fully lined wool trousers. Bought for £1.80! So with those and a skirt, a couple of blouses and some lovely additions from our friend, Samantha, we then got busy with the needle and thread making the necessary alterations!

The new look

We may have succeeded with the clothes, but we failed completely on one count! We were looking for sheer tights and traipsed through numerous street stalls and dukas using every word under the sun! Tights, nylons, sheers, stockings, pantyhose, hosiery, and tried in Swahili "the socks worn on the whole legs." We chased numerous rabbit trails with eager anticipation, but the search was fruitless! But in the end, she found a friend with spares from America! To be honest, I think Amisadai will only have to wear them once and decide that tights are not such a good idea anyway! And I'm not sure that she will be able to walk in the high heels either!

I just wish I could be a fly on the wall when she takes the floor!

We sent out a newsletter to all our kind and generous supporters this week. It was long overdue which we are sorry about! We could not do what we do if it wasn't for you all standing with us! Thank you so very much! Here it is if you want to read an overview of what's cookin!
January 2018 Newsletter 

Let's Fly!

We have tickets booked! And with that, travelling to Canada and the UK suddenly seems to be approaching rather too quickly! We are so excited about seeing family and friends again (and enjoying those things we miss), but there is still much to do here before then!

It was September, 2012 the last time we landed in England (we stayed until just after a visit to Canada at Christmas), and it's that funny thing about time, which makes it seem just ages ago, yet at the same time, we hardly seem to have been here since long at all!

We fly from Mwanza on March 27th and six airports and a long time later, are looking forward to being Canadian for three weeks with family and friends! Then we have a few days in the Toronto area with EI Canada and are excited about meeting up with Laura (from Iringa) before flying to the UK, to Louisa's great delight, on her birthday! Then we will enjoy being British for a term and see as many of you there as we can before coming back at the end of July.

And now, here are a couple of links to some extra reading if you are interested...

Click Here to read our latest newsletter!

Although if you follow the blog, the newsletter is, (as my sister pointed out in the nicest-possible-way) rather boring! But as not everyone has internet access (although I think this is now few more than my grandparents - who get the blog printed and delivered by my kind aunts!), I try to make the effort for a good ol'fashioned (albeit rather occasional, and perhaps largely unread!) newsletter!

Also, we recently wrote an article for the Emmanuel International Down to Earth Magazine on the agricultural project. Now as the blog is chronological and jumps about depending on what happens each week, this brief article could be an easier way of seeing what has been happening with this project since September.

 Click Here to read the Down to Earth article!

And with that, I would just like to thank you, dear readers, for reading and following along! And a special thank you to many of you for being so supportively interested and encouraging! See you soon!