This week has been filled with new and returning faces. On Tuesday the sisters had two adorable puppies delivered to their house. Mikayla instantly fell in love with them and claimed them as her own! She fought back many tears this week when we would take the puppies back to their house for bedtime and many anxious morning wake up calls to see the puppies. She even gave up cartoons to play with them!
We also had another special arrival of Joe, Sister Diane’s nephew. He will be at Cabrini for the next year (maybe two years) helping out with the agriculture programming, assisting in the office some and a little bit of everything else! We had the opportunity to hang out with him some on Saturday on a day trip to Mbabane. While there we did some shopping and even found a really nice park for Mikayla to play in. Joe likes to cook, so we are going to work out an exchange where he cooks and I bake!
The kids also returned to the hostel this week after their summer holiday. Mikayla and I took daily walks to the hostel to see all her friends and the puppies even joined us one day. The after school program will resume soon so we will be once again helping out with that.
Today we will be having a big lunch with Sister Diane, Sister Barbara, Joe and Janet. I made my first angel food cake and it seems to have turned out okay; hopefully it tastes as good as it looks! In the upcoming week we will be preparing for a mango/chili competition that Ben challenged us to. Both are in season at the mission, so it should be interesting. I am going to try and come up with some sort of baked item if you have any suggestions.
Just hanging around in the mango tree, taking a break from all the puppy play!
She’s in love!
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