Hello, from the land of bananas, pineapple, mango, ground nuts and spinach. In Nigeria ground nuts equal peanuts. Mrs. Thomas cannot get peanut butter though unless she goes to someone who will make it to order. Spinach equals pigweed in Nebraska. I think it has a pretty high nutritional value. Magdiel planted a garden full of it this morning. The children at the orphanage were having spinach for lunch today and I had it for dinner last night. It is really pretty good. So why don’t we eat it in Nebraska, we have plenty of the stuff. Of course if it became a cash crop Monsato would make it Roundup ready and we couldn’t get rid of it in other crops.

We have been away from home over a week. I’m still not accustomed to the way things go here. This morning Hannatu and her husband stopped to see me. She told me that Magdiel was coming to get me. I thought that meant right away so said I needed to get my things together. They left and he was a while getting here.

The coolest birds were across the driveway. I got a picture of them but have to blow it up to see it and then it is no good. (I should have gotten a better camera) They have red, yellow or blue breasts and are gray brown on the back. Saw a few I recognized as doves.

I went to the orphanage this morning. My batteries were dead the last tour I took so today Magdiel and I walked and I looked closer at things. There are three buildings under construction, two classrooms and a computer lab. A fellow from Jalingo is donating funds with the specification that a computer lab be built with them.  The orphanage has several computers that have been purchased with the same fellow’s money. At present they are not using them. They need to run more electricity to the part of the classroom area to use them.  Anyway, we brought one to the auditorium and I installed Kid Pix on it. While it was loading the kids learned the home row on the keyboard. Each one tried to type asdfghjkl;. We all had a really good time.

Benji and I looked at metal beds for the kids. We are going to have the kids try one and see if they like them. I think they will work just fine. I forgot to take a picture, will do that on Monday when they bring it to the orphanage.

I’m back at the guest house and we have no water. Not something I was worried about, maybe we can shower at Brittany’s tonight or hope the pump will get enough water in the tank.