Form Two WINS!!!
Again this year, a competition was held between Forms to see who would get recognition as the best athletes. Forms One and Two had benches twice as deep as Forms Three and Four, so it was not surprising to see the underclassmen matched up in the finals. The first match ended in a tie of two goals each, and we thought there would be a shoot-out to see who would claim the title, but the sun had set.
Because of some contentions about recalled plays and fouls, they decided to have a rematch instead. We were wondering if this was going to be a fair match,
because the Form Two goalie had visited our house after the first game with pain in his side . . . possible cracked rib. However, Form Two showed their stuff convincingly in the rematch, winning three to zero!
In time for the festivities was and the Regional competition was the latest of Joanne’s sewing accomplishments, an Idigima school flag. It was well-received . . .
and quickly claimed by the Headmaster to hang in his office when not in use at sports events.
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Needed: First Aid supplies
It has fallen to Joanne over the years to tend to the cuts, bruises, and various other ills that befall our students and staff. We’d been thinking they weren’t so frequent during this tour, but in the last couple of months it has picked up, reminding us that our NEEDS LIST this year must include more Band-Aids (large 1 ¾ x 4 and medium), peroxide, cotton balls, Q-tips, medical tape and medium Ace-Wraps.
Ear aches are common, and we usually find that they are packed with dust, oil and soap.
Bikes and motorcycles are the cause of most injuries we’ve seen of late. One of the teachers was on a transport motorcycle that spilled; he was blessed to come out of it with only a sore leg and a scraped forearm.
Most recently, we felt like a trauma unit when a half dozen boys brought three of their friends, one being carried. Two boys on a bike had collided with a pedestrian student on their way to school. The bike passenger was sent head-first into the road and bit through his upper lip, breaking some teeth.
Showing signs of head trauma, we sent him to the hospital/dispensary in Iyula-A via motorcycle.
All of the boys had multiple scrapes and gouges on their hands, knees, shins, arms and shoulders.
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EEEEEEK!!! A SNAKE!!!
Just when you start to let down your guard, another one of these things shows up on campus and stirs things up! With a student body that is roughly two girls to every boy, you can imagine the stir this thing raised when it came slithering through campus during evening study time.
The security guard dispatched it quickly…and then brought it to our house to see if we wanted to eat it. (You may recall that at the end of our first tour, teachers brought a big, fat cobra to us, which eight of us enjoyed as an evening snack. The girl teachers would have nothing to do with it, but the boy teachers who participated started calling themselves the “brothers of the cobra.”)
We did not eat this one, but the skin would have been impressive on display, had the guard not done such a thorough job of beating it to death. The nationals are in agreement with the slogan, “the only good snake is a dead snake.” Pity, as many are harmless and would help with the rat population, but so many are poisonous that they’d rather not take the time to distinguish between friend and foe.
Your Hands & Feet in Tanzania,
Gary and Joanne Grenell
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