Day 15 - Friday 16th June

Friday was another busy-but-not-very-interesting-to-write-about day! So don't expect this to be very long!!
We spent the whole day in Masiang (that is how you really spell Macena, but we never saw it written down until the other day!), which was quite relaxing after the busy few days before (shopping is hard work you know!).
We had been asked to sort out and organise the library in any spare time that we had, so we made the most of not having anything else planned, and the peace and quite whilst the children were at school, to get on with this job. Sarah did most of the work I have to say, I was busy making sure that the few children who were 'helping' us didn't disrupt our nicely oraginsed heaps of books! I did do some work I promise! Sarah was making a list of all the recently aquired books on the computer, wherever possible in catagories. (She's better at that sort of thing than me, she's more organised than me!!!)
That took all morning, until we were called for lunch in Galilee with everyone who had stayed in the homes. Can't remember what we had but I'm pretty sure that there was rice in it somewhere and I know that it tasted good because nearly everything does here! (I say nearly everything because I'm not really a fan of liver, which seems to surface fairly often!)
After lunch I went and read one of my many books in our room, whilst Sarah prepared her devotion for the older girls downstairs. After I'd finished my book I started drawing some pictures for Sarah's devotion for the younger girls, on the prodigal son. I decided to sit outside on the roof because it was a nicer temperature out there than in the room. Then Sarah came back up and helped me finish them off, until we were joined by some of the girls who had come up to sort out tables and chairs for the Tripps farewell party.
We then spent some time playing with them until it was time for the party.
Each of the houses sang a song for the Tripps and the housemothers did one all together. Inbetween each song the children were asked various questions about Pastor and Mrs Tripp, such as; 'how many children do they have?' (3), 'how many grandchildren?' (7), and 'What is Pastor Tripp's full name?' This last question caused some confusion as I don't think anyone had asked him and a lot of the girls were just changing the title Mr? Dr? Pastor? but they got it eventually! The girls who got the question right would recieve a prize of sweets.
The Tripps then taught everyone a song about Moses, and Pastor Tripp gave a small speech saying thanks. Then we had some food, which unfortuately included liver!!! but the rest of it was really nice! We had this gorgeous sort of frozen cake sort of dessert thing, which had mango in (my new favourite fruit!) It was really, really nice and so I had 2 (small) pieces!
Then it was time for bed, for a good night's sleep in preparation for another busy day on Saturday!
That's it! Hope you're still awake! (if not you can wake up now, it's over!)
ttfn Becci x