Tuesday 28 June 2011







Our News
Hi again! As we have not been writing blogs we have decided that we’ll just write short ones when we have the time, don’t expect them to be regular.
So much has happened since we last wrote a blog, it’s nearly the end of the school year Mowzer has had yet more kittens, Ruth’s turned 15 and Mum had her birthday just a week ago. The rains have started now it rained last night with an amazing sandstorm, we were sleeping on the veranda because of the heat and we all got covered in sand and had to go inside. We’ll put news about the important stuff that has happened then we’ll add some poems at the end.
For Ruth’s second birthday in Chad we went swimming at the Chari hotel by the river with her best friend from school-Hélène. Thank you to everyone who sent presents!
Just 4 weeks ago Mowzer our 1st cat had 4 kittens! 1 was born dead but the other 3 are very healthy! We have named them Thing 1, 2 and 3 as we mustn’t get too attached as we have already found homes for them.
For Mum’s 2nd birthday in Chad we had a pizza at a very tasty pizza place. Also went swimming.
We had this week off school because the Terminales (Oldest students at French school) are doing the Baccalaureate which is the test you do as you leave school. We had parents evening this week too and both of us have got good marks.
Soon we will be going to Mali for a mission retreat with other BMS missionaries which will be good fun and good for our parents to have a break!
Mona and Ward 2 american missionaries have come to live with us to help with the hospital they are very friendly.
Here are some acrostic poems that we have written about our cats hope you like them there are 6 (far too many!)

 1st Mowzer our cat that we got last year when we first came to Chad:
Mother of many
Orange, black and white
Wild at night
Zooms after lizards
Excited by many things, but
Runs when stormy

 2nd and 3rd her first 2 kittens Ginger and Biscuit one’s very scared and the other is quite plump:
Got to go
Instantly
Never there for long
Growls and purrs, loves
Eggs scrambled
Runs wild with Biscuit

Biscot
Is very fat
Slim is not his thing
Cute butUnbelievably clumsy
Instead of waiting he yums all the food up
Takes in the smell of food from miles away

Last but not least the three new kittens:

Takes her time exploring
Head of the triplets
Includes her brothers
Nimble and quick
Gets anywhere she wants
1st place for climbing walls

Totters along
Hopelessly tired
Incredible at hiding
Nearly gets squashed
Gobbles down milk
2 much walking is not good

Tail up high
Hyper when in a new place
Ink splodges all over
Never misses anything
Go, go, go
3 times as fast

To finish here is a conversation Rebecca had with a new Nigerian English teacher who is very enthusiastic (I speak 1st):
“Hello”
“Hello, how are you?”
“I’m fine”
“Do you speak English?”
“Yeah, I am English”
“No, the answer is: ‘yes, I do’
“I know but I am English”
“Oh, well you shouldn’t say ‘yeah’ to a teacher, only to your family “and friends…”

Hope you are all well in England, we still miss you all! Did you know we are going to go to Mali soon for about 2 weeks?
Ruth and Rebecca