Washing clothes in the shade. |
More kids came to watch! |
Washing dishes in Kimande is a very different job compared to England. There is no electricity, so no dishwasher. We get water from the water point outside and fill bowls to wash and rinse. The sufurias (metal cooking pots) get very black from the fire and it doesn't rinse off in water. So you use dirt from the ground with some water and scrub with your hands very hard. It doesn't seem like it would work because it makes it dirtier! But really when you wash off the mud, it is shiny silver again! Here is a photo of Mummy washing a sufuria outside our house.
Singing for the team in the Kimande Church |
Going to this hospital is not at all like going to the hospital in Basingstoke! You walk on hot sand with the scorching sun shining on you. The ground is hard and thorny. At the hospital, there is no gate or barrier. It is all open. There are quite a few one layer buildings, all for different things. One for injections, one for having babies, one for men and one for women. The one for giving birth is very unlike ones in Canada and England, there are only three beds, which have no sheets, only plastic, which are not very clean. The rooms are very small. But next door is a sitting area, where guests to see patients can sit.
We went to see the baby again later that day, after the team had left. She is lovely. But she still didn't have a name! The next day we went, and the mum was not so tired then. They didn't have a name and they asked me to think of one! I said Sophie, because that is the name of one of my friends in Aldermaston. They asked for another name and I couldn't think of one but I told her my name and asked if they like that. They said yes, and so the baby is called Amisadai! They even wrote it on the medicine box! They had to stay in the hospital for a few days as the mama had lost blood and had a poorly heart. The nurse said they needed to find someone in her family to care for her so that she could rest when she left, before they would let her leave the hospital. The hospital is a short walk from our house and I visited them every day.
Amisadai, Amisadai and the Nurse |
Me and Baby Amisadai |
Mama's in England at the moment - I wish you were here to wash my clothes and dishes! Lol Papaxxx
ReplyDeleteDear Papa, I think you can wash your own clothes and dishes because you have a washing machine and dishwasher! Thank you very much for the DVD! We watched Easter and Birthdays yesterday. Today we are going to watch skating and singing/drumming! Taylor is doing very well with her skating! I hope you are not too lonely without Mama. Love Amisadai
ReplyDeleteHow exciting to have a baby named after you. I was asked to suggest an English name for a little Chinese girl recently, but as it was a girl I couldn't call it Edwin. We settled on Julie which sounds a bit like her Chinese name. Just now we are having so much hot weather it feels hotter than when we were with you in Kimande. Lots of love. Grandad XX
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