We went to the secondary school in the morning to paint the designs that the pupils drew yesterday. It turns out that the school only has red and blue paint, and of course purple by combining them. So the pupils left space for the yellow, black and white that we plan to buy in Kampala on Monday. The school hall was like an oven, I'm not joking. We had a goodly break in the heat of the afternoon, it's so lovely with the pupils chatting and singing, some writing their journals or reading.
At this point Robert found us some yellow and white paint which opened up a much larger colour palette, so with great excitement we spent several more hours painting - I found myself carefully painting a pink and yellow caterpillar! By the time it got dark we were 99% finished.
As usual I had my shower in the evening after the heat of the day had died down. The shower has no running water; you half fill a basin with water from a container that has to be carried inside after being filled from the water tank. Then you stand in the shower tray and use a plastic jug to wet your hair and body with water from the basin, and use a tiny amount of shampoo to wash your hair. Then you use the jug to pour more water over you several times until you are all rinsed and clean. Now that I'm used to it, I really like it because it's so refreshing.
It's the same with the washing up after each meal; we fill the basin in the sink and use soap to wash the dishes, which then go into a rinsing basin and then onto the draining board. One day we found a little worm wriggling around in the washing up water which bothered me a lot less than I thought it would. In fact I'm becoming very relaxed about creepy crawlies; last night there was something running around on the floor of my bedroom, buzzing menacingly - I cared not a jot and went peacefully to sleep!
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