Day 3

After another hearty breakfast curtesy of Prim and her kitchen helpers, we began our day by leisurely loading up the land rover with our equipment for the day, a refreshing walk to the bus stop and a short time to relax in the sun.

That's where the serenity of the day ended and the laughter, singing, hard work and 10 hours continuous use of our feet and legs began.

Our first activity of the day would have been excellently used for arachnaphobia desensitisation therapy. However, we had to face our fears without the help of trained professionals. We did not need them. We had Jillian (please note the spelling). With her nerves of steel, she willing chased down, tackled and neutralised a rough estimate of a million spiders.

Our major concern was for the room's occupant, known, for the purposes of protecting his

identity, as Spider Boy. We're convinced he's eaten more than his fair share of spiders whilst sleeping. We cleaned walls, furniture the kitchen, bathroom, cupboards and spider's webs, folded clothes, emptied the rooms of furniture and took to the painting with gusto. Even we were astonished with all we achieved and plan to invite Spider Boy for dinner some time incase he feels lonely now all his spider friends have gone. We'll return to the house tomorrow to finish some painting in the first half of the house and start into the second half. The owners of the house are Christian's associated with the church. Their circumstances have changed and they no longer have an income. We are hoping the work we have done in the house will mean they will be able to rent it out and develop a means of independent income.

After a quick turn around, we began our first kid's club at the church. It all started in a fairly reserved and quiet fashion with 13 children from the church. After our bible lesson, craft and games, we headed down to the local park armed with a giant parachute, some balls and perhaps a little naivety at the interest we would attract. It our last count we had 43 children, and a large number of parental spectators, playing games. Kudos goes to Carlena for her quick thinking in rescuing a fallen child in a competitive game of Pata, Pata, Goose (aka Duck, Duck, Goose). The entertainment prize goes to Elaine for the attention her mud stained clothes received on our bus journey and walking home. Between that and seven pale, tired-looking foreigners running down the street to catch the bus at the end of a exciting but long day, we haven't really done very well in avoiding attracting undue attention to ourselves, as Prim requested at the start of the team! We'll be heading back to the park tomorrow and have no idea how many children we'll have by then. Please pray!

Karen