Sat, May 10, 12pm
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The power came back on at some point and I took a bath before going to bed because Fanny was able to get the water tank filled once the pump had power. I went to bed around 1am, and did not bother with mosquito netting. It would have been a job trying to figure out how to string that up, and there was really no need in Gweru, since it is already cooler there – I guess winter comes to Gweru before the rest of the country. Justin had turned in hours before, and in the morning, he turned on the light entirely too early :-)

We had some breakfast around 7:30. Breakfasts are great here. There is instant coffee ( Ricoffee), which is really good, or superb tea with cream and sugar as well.

At 8, the kids were still arriving for VBS and continued to arrive for the rest of the morning. But there was already the anticipated 90 by 9am. For the first session, after Steve had the Bible story, Claudio and I took the 1st through 3rd graders back to the filled-in swimming pool to play “Gideon Recruits His Army”. I tried to explain the game to the kids with Claudio demonstrating. It took them a while to catch on, but eventually with the help of English-speaking Sunday school teachers, we had a long chain of bodies chasing the remaining children. We only had time for one game before we were told to meet back at the church. Meanwhile, Aaron was playing Gideon in the Bible Expedition segment with some older kids, and others were handling different activities (Melissa had the preschoolers).

We then switched and took the 4-7 graders for the Daniel segment. Claudio and Rick oversaw that game while I shambled around trying to get video…of King Aaron attempting to burn the three Hebrews.