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

Our News!

Hi everyone! As we haven’t written for a while we have decided to do a very long blog about all our news. It has 6 parts and a little twist somewhere see if you can guess what it is!

1.Notre Vie d’école!
Bonjour, comment allez-vous? Maintenant, tout va bien à l’école sauf qu’on n’a pas un accent français. Mais heureusement nos amies peuvent nous comprendre. Rebecca a une amie qui s’appelle Victoria, elle est demi-tchadienne ; demi-russe. Ruth a une amie qui s’appelle Hélène, elle est tchadienne. Un des deux et l’autre voulaient venir à notre maison pendant les vacances ! L’école n’est pas si bien qu’en Angleterre mais ça va mieux et on progresse vite !




2. Happy holidays
We have just come to the end of 2 weeks of holidays. Our Dad says that they’re skiing holidays and that’s why they are so long though as far as we know no one has gone skiing from our school..... But unfortunately at French school you get homework to do in the holidays so we worked our way through it and we managed to finish it on time! We went out about 3 times during the holidays. Once to a pottery village just outside N’djamena which was really amazing and interesting.
We went to a museum which was an ancient sultan’s palace then we went round the village which was all painted (on the houses) and looked really pretty we also found out how they make pots in Chad. It was amazing to find such a place in Chad! Then we went to town with mum and bought lots of lovely material which a tailor in town is making into clothes for us. And we went to a hotel for a swim which was really nice and refreshing -we even had ham and cheese sandwiches which were lovely! But we’re back at school now and it’s been a pretty normal week, though on Tuesday Mum and some women from the hospital went to parade in town as it was international woman’s day! Apparently there were only 3 white women there but mum had a really good time. Next week Andrew North is coming to stay for a bit and also on Monday it’s Pie day! We are celebrating in maths because our maths teacher used to be in America and they write the month before the day so the 14th of March is 03/14 which is the start of the number pie. We’ve got to bring in cakes and pies and are going to watch a film. We’ve just 5 weeks then 2 more weeks of holidays......

3. From Rats to Cats
About 6 weeks ago our cat Mowzer had two healthy but not so cute rats on Ruth’s bed. The rats have now grown up a bit and look much more like kittens.
They were born by Ruth’s legs then they were transferred into the cupboard by Mowzer on top of the box. Next, at about 2 weeks in the middle of the night they moved down onto the floor and woke Ruth and Mum up. At about 3 weeks they were moved by Mowzer into the office cupboard which was a mess and the kittens were trapped not able to move just when they had started to run around two days before. So we moved them into the bathroom but Mowzer wasn’t happy, so now they are in our parents’ bedroom cupboard and love climbing the suitcases.
At the moment the kittens are running around like crazy and are always fighting each other or their mum’s tail. They haven’t really changed from rats to cats it’s more like rats to hamsters then hopefully cats. They walk and run around in the washing basket like it’s a hamster’s wheel while Mowzer watches looking bored as they run over her paws. About 2 weeks ago they started eating just like that. One minute drinking the next eating. We are planning to keep one and give the other one to our friend Aicha. Oh, and by the way their names are Ginger and Biscuit!

4. J.E.A est un nouveau monde
Lately we have been going to a group at church on Sunday afternoons at church. We have been going for quite a while now and it’s good fun. It’s like an African and more Christian version of scouts. There are 2 different parts-Lumières and Flambeaux the girls are lumières which means ‘lights’ and the boys are flambeaux which means pretty flames. We sing songs and learn stuff about the bible and also bible verses. At the moment we are trying to pass our 2nd étape, we have to learn stuff and do some trips. Soon we are planning on getting uniforms so we can really be part of the ‘troupe’ even if we are the only ‘nazares’ there! It’s much better than going to church with our parents and we really enjoy it!

5. Our new sandpit and giant moles?
Half way through the holidays a truck came to our compound and dropped of a load of sand right in front of the badminton pitch (we’ve been playing badminton for a while and have a net). We moved the pitch over a bit but when they came and stuck a huge pile of gravel on it we gave up and took it in(it’s too windy now anyway).The sand pile is fun to play in with the children who come round though Rebecca did manage to lose a shoe in there once! Any way it’s being used to make our new house and since they got permission the workers have been digging holes everywhere for the foundation. It looks just like giant moles! We are both looking forward t having a proper house and we are getting a bunk bed! The other day we bought nice material for the curtains in our room and have already got big plans for it! When it’s finished we will write a blog and show you pictures.

6. Our School life!
Hello, how are you? Now everything is going well at school though we have yet to perfect our accents! But our friends can still understand us. Rebecca has a friend called Victoria; she is half Chadian and half Russian. Ruth also has a friend called Hélène, she’s completely Chadian. One of them came, and the other one wanted to come, to our house during the holidays. School’s not as good as in England but we are progressing fast!
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Well we think that’s about it for news, we’ll try to email and blog more! Hope you are all ok back in England, we miss you all lots.
Ruth and Rebecca