James the driver woke me up today knocking on my door. He was pleased because he had found a snake shedding and remembered that Diane had told him to look out for one to replace the one I lost when Godwin came and tided up the house for her when I was out. It is a lovely skin and I am going to draw it and stick it in my sketchbook. As it is only the shedding I hope customs allow it or do not notice it because it will be scrambled with a lot of other cuttings and rubbish when my sketchbook goes through the scanner. I went to the Wonderful School again and we joked around a lot. It is the last time it appears on my programme so I felt slightly sad. I wish to find the time to come back and visit. Happiness is doing such a great job. She told me when she came if you gave a child a pen and paper then they just scribbled round and round in circles. Now she has two of them that can write the whole alphabet and the rest are trying hard to work on individual letters and the beginnings of the alphabet and one, two, three, four. I had bought a football in the market so that we could have a good kick around. Isaac was especially happy as he told me his favourite thing about school is getting to play ball. Everyone was in such good spirits. I was using a local Okada boy because all of the Amaudo bikes are currently spoiled and are off to the garage. He turned up promptly at 1, I think he is scared I am a harsh lady because I said I would not pay him for dropping me off at Amaudo 2 until I was safe back at Amaudo 1 and he had completed his job.
Wonderful School Pupils
I still felt pretty lively when I got back. I went for a walk with Catherine. She told me all the mangos would be ripe on Wednesday, all the cashews would be ripe on Wednesday and that she would be going back to her family on Wednesday. Whilst we were walking I spotted a ripe cashew and let her eat the fruit. Rev Peter decided he wanted my company so offered to take me to his village and show me his family house. He is from just down the road by Helping Hands School. He has a cocoa farm and I took photos of the tree and the seed and when the seeds had been left the dry. I did not like the taste of the fresh seed it reminded me of eating chop chop which tastes like weird milkshake so not something you expect from fruit. The dried seed tasted more like chocolate but very bitter and quite nice.
Cocoa seeds drying
Tasting fruit
Picking fruit
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