this week mama rebecca and some of the other staff returned from cape town and windhoek, where they had gone to buy new goats. they bought some mama goats and one big, big, boy goat whom we named stinky pete because he smells! there are two chickens who have baby chicks and they are so cute and fluffy, i told the kids what marshmallow peeps are and they thought that that sounds delicious. at chores i sometimes help the little girl who is in charge of the chickens. she chases them in while i stand at the door of the pen and she says in this little high voice "auntie make sure no chicken gets out" yesterday she came up to me with an egg carton which she had filled each section with mud and was like " auntie this is my present for you" and i was like "mmmm chocolate eggs" and we pretended to eat them.

we go running almost every day.

every saturday they have flat bread with peanut butter for breakfast, so today i ate breakfast at the children's home instead of eating cereal in the volunteers bungalow. it was good!

also, i began teaching music class this week, right now i am just teaching how to read music but so far it is going really well.

today and yesterday we organized the clothes cabinet and began giving out new clothes. it is fun to hand out clothes, but it is also hard to organize who needs what and to get them to wait in line, and to find things that fit everyone.

the third youngest boy, who is three, heard me saying see you later alligator to someone else. now whenever he says goodbye he says "see you alligator".