This visit to Kosele has been very productive. On a daily basis I
sometimes feel like the work becomes bogged down, kind of trapped in ‘African
time’. Overall though I am happy with the performance of our two new teams,
managing the children’s home and school respectively. As previously reported
the church has just enjoyed a very successful week-end. As the summer holiday
starts to unfold for the children, (the ‘candidates having finished their mock
exam today), I think everybody is looking forward to a bit of down time. I’ll
be traveling to Kisumu tomorrow and flying home from Nairobi on Thursday. It will be good to be
back with my wife Judi again as she continues her treatment for breast cancer.
Tuesday 7 August 2012
Full Circle
On my last day in Kosele for this visit it seems appropriate that we
were battered by a downpour again. Starting and finishing my trip with a major
cloudburst seems to bring it round full circle. When the rain came I was in a
meeting with Madam Nyangwe, our head teacher and Mr Isaiah, who heads up our
agriculture college. Madam Nyangwe expressed her surprise, as the raindrops
battered the roof of her office, sounding like rapid fire from a machine gun.
“I thought the rains were over!” I think we all did. We have, thankfully, had
very little rain while we have been drying our maize crop. Nothing, it seems,
is predictable about the weather at the moment. This will create a challenge
for us as we gear up for the next planting season at the beginning of
September. The other side effect of the rain is the frog’s chorus, (follow the
link below if you want to relive that particular musical moment). The frogs
seem to be working in short, sharp co-ordinated bursts tonight. I wonder what
switches them on and off.
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