Wednesday 21st May- Pet Bird

Eunice and Martha’s favourite doctor was staying this week Dr. Obayi (Oh-bye) He is such a hard working man. He likes to read medical books all through the evening sometimes till 2am. Everyone likes it when he comes to Amaudo because he really enjoys the work and engages with the residents. Ward round was magic. The doctor keenly drove on discussions into detail such fine detail. We explored if the jerky walking which quite a lot of residents have adopted could be a side effect of drugs or if those people have catatonic schizophrenia so it is a mental slight paralysis. This causes some of them to walk like zombies its quite weird sometimes because the drugs make them sleepy and some of them are very slow.

In the afternoon Martha made her hair into weave on. This is where you plat the hair and then sow on strips of hair over the top to create a Caucasian style of hair.

John the cook gave me a gift to cheer me up. He caught one of those small yellow and black birds that nest in the palm trees and kept it in his hands to give to me. When I came back to Eunices house and saw the bird I was so surprised to see it sitting in his hands. He tied a little rope on its leg to make a lead and I had a pet bird for the afternoon.
Some of the children from the village admired my bird and asked me to dash it them. I felt slightly bad that a small child wanted to enjoy the bird and I was just being a big kid. One of the residents came to beg me not to give it them. She said that over here people like to eat the birds so the children would only kill it. Eunice confirmed that the tiny bird makes a tasty snack. I let the bird go free back to his nest to live another day.