August: Cassave Root

We had cassava root for a snack in the village. You peel off the bark and eat unil the core. Yumm!

July: Eating With Our Hands

I put one hand behind my back so I will remember to eat only with my right hand (because your lfet hand is your potty and nose picking hand in Africa). -E

July: Time in the Village

Sitting with friends. -C

Eating a bug. eeeeeeew! -C

I love to play in the hammock. -E

In the villge playing. -H

The heat of the day is a great time for a litte nap (but a bit sweaty)! -E

Here I am helping my friend sweep the dirt courtyard. -E

I am eat yummy sweet bread. -H

June: In the Village

doing a word searh in the village. -h

Dokeys fighting and falling in a well.-C

Siting and eating a snack.-C

My best friend in the village, Felicity*, who I love to follow around. -E

May: Another Visit to a Village

E loves mangos.

And she makes freinds wherever she goes.

She likes reading books.

C & H making friends too.

The kids in the village don't have toys so they make toys with whatever they can find. This boy is playing with a old moto tire and a stick.

April: Another Visit to a Village

Our friends in a village in Mali.

We ate mangoes and Mommy and Daddy ate them like the Africans do. They cut some up for us to eat. They also gave us lots and lots of mangoes to take and eat at home.

E loves to help our friend Nathan's* wife, Felicity* prepare the meals. They are using a mortar and pestal to pound the ingriedients for the sauce. (Like onions, seasoning, etc.)

It was a hot day because it is hot season now, but we had a lot of fun.

March: Day in the Village

We went to a new village closer to the big city where we live.

We tried a new fruit called a cashew fruit and we didn't like it very much.

I tried to teach the kids how to make faces. -C

They laughed at all my silly faces. -C

It was funny to see them try to do the same faces I showed them. -C

We had fun playing in the village.

February: Valentine's & Visit to a Village

We went to our friends' families village and spent the night. We ate rice and sauce and they gave up spoons even though they eat with their hands. For breakfast we had something called "see-ree" it is kind of like oatmeal or poridge made out of rice. They let us sleep in their school house.

We were watching as they pounded the grain.

In February we did lots of baking.

We made cookies for Valentine's Day.

We took them to our classes.