23rd Oct 7:10pm

The waterfight was a success, we chucked water all over the kids and they loved it, then we got water balloons thrown all over us too. It was a good laugh and I could tell everyone liked the idea, I want to get some more balloons for later this week, so we can do it again, since the weather is so nice.

After that we all sat outside in the sun to dry off - its incredibly hot during the day despite it getting close to the rainy season and us being at a higher altitude on Mount Meru. I managed to get some chemistry done, the girl who was with me, Megan, did a lot of biology at university, so she was able to help me with some of the amino acid stuff.

Before dark me Megan and Kristina were heading to the shop to buy baking supplies to bake a cake for Alex's birthday tomorrow (one of the students at Peace Matunda). On the way out Crystal and Caroline were going to hand out some donated chlothes, so I grabbed my bag and went with them.

 The four standard 4 girls (the oldest standard at Peace Matunda) Mary, Margaret, Sheila and Jesca (Jessica) came with us to translate, as most of the students families dont speak such good English, so we wouldnt want to offend anyone by thrusting clothes in their faces.

We walked up the hill and the first house was about a 20 minutes walk away, we went in and gave out loads of chlothes and a teddy. They were so appreciative, some of them had no shoes and it was clear their house was derelict. I think the clothes went to the right people because most of the children went to Peace Matunda School (the girls had told us about them). As we came down the track from their house we saw 3 small children; we started to hand out some more clothes. More children appeared and people were calling each other over. Adults turned up and people were pushing and shoving attempting to grab chlothes out of our bags, so in the end we had to walk away. One girl followed us and Mary translated that she was an orphan too, her mother had died and she was living on the street. Chrystal and Caroline and taking some clothes to her tomorrow.

I hope to go hand out some more tomorrow, so that all the local children who go to Peace Matunda can have at least something.

On the way home we met one of the students dads and he was telling us how he is a dentist (I'm sure he is, just not a qualified on, but he seemed concerned for the children's teeth when they were drinking pop) Tom Crystal and Caroline have all brought toothbrushes and toothpaste for the 135 students at Peace Matunda, so the dentist man offered to come in this Sunday to teach the children how to properly look after their teeth, and he may also do some checkups which I could fund!