Worms and mariage proposals!!

I have worms again! Joy! Joy! Joy! And as I speak (write) my stomach is beginning to hurt again and I feel that I may need to rush to the toilet again! (Its a good job they have toilets her - otherwise I would be really stuck! Even thought they are only 'squatty pottys'! Anyway, way to much information there!!!) I've had it over a week now. I didnt think it was worms at first so thats why I didnt go to the nurse before, which I guess wasn't very clever! I had a bad night yesterday because of it, but I hope that I will start to get better soon!

The little boy I took to get an x-ray last week to check for TB - does indeed have TB. So he will need to go to the TB clinic in Kampala and start a series of treatments. On Wednesday I went to have a blood test to check my blood type. We have a little baby girl called Priscilla who has Sickle Cell Anemia and is quite ill at the moment since she has an infection. So I went to get tested in case I have the same blood type I could then give her a blood transfusion. But alas I am not compatible.
Next week I may have to travel to Impala (not quite sure where that is) to take Mathias a little boy to the hospital there. They have a specialist unit there. A doctor who visited here a while a go thinks that he may have water in the brain or on the brain so he may need a drainage. I hope that it is something that can be easily treated.

Things in Pre-school are going well. On Friday it was just me as the other mad-venture people have gone away for a long weekend. I was quite worried that things would go pear-shaped but the routine was followed and the mamas were with the older and younger group while I taught pre-school/school.

We had the reward day on Thursday this week as the mad-venture people were away on Friday. We had a teddy bears picnic! Ben the Bear came along too! (For those of you who dont know about Ben the Bear - Im not crazy! We had some party food and some healthy food and we played party games. The kids had great fun - I think and they enjoyed the games and food especially! We felt like we were on show for the local community - we were enclosed by fencing and there were at least 50 school kids clinging onto the barbed wire trying to sneak a peak at the Mzungus (white people/westerner) feeding black kids cupcakes and bananas! We most of put on quite a show because more and more of kids started to come and watch!

On Wednesday we took the older kids who don't sleep for a walk down by the Lake. We stopped on some grass and had a sit down half way there. We then saw this guy running towards us, I presumed he was going to tell us that we were on private property and that we had to get off. So, when he approached us I asked him if we were okay to sit here, he said we were fine. So anyway, he started questioning us, asking us where we were from, how old we were, why we were here etc. Obviously, I am very wary of random men asking me such questions and even more intimate ones so I just ignored him for a while. He then asked me if I could come and sit with him and talk to him etc. I said that I was busy with the children. He then asked me why I was being so rude! I just said to him that I was here with the kids and they are my priority and that I wasnt going to leave them alone while I talk to a stranger. He then accused me of being racist towards black "Why do you hate balck people" he asked me! "Why do you come to our country and steal our money and jobs and you hate us so much?" At that point I probably should of upped and left, but I stayed and answered his accusations. In the end he walked of in mard - muttering something to himself about Americans coming to Uganda and treating black people like dirt!
Now, some people might think this was rather rude of me, but its not uncommon for Mzungus to get unwanted attention around here. I think at least every girl here in the V-house has there own personal stalker. They follow you, they come to the baby home, they leave notes declaring their undying love for you, they manage to make an appearance wherever you are!! Its to obvious that these men just want a ticket out of the country, and its quite sad to see how desperate they are and to what lengths they will go to to try and get a Mzungu girlfriend. So, yes I have had one Ugandan ask me to marry him, after having spoken to me for like 5 minutes. Its quite sad as well because so many guys do it, you just don't know who to trust anymore, and that is a big shame.