The Face of Scabies

 

That's right scabies. Kian got scabies while we were in Zomba. He could have gotten it from Jeff (since most of the kids Jeff sees at the clinic have it) or at school from one of the kids. It presented itself at the worst possible time. We were driving four hours to Zomba and I was alone with the two kids while Jeff was driving someone else's car. It started with a little itching of the ankles, then the wrists and then the neck and under the ears. Then it got pretty frantic. Luckily Jeff diagnosed him pretty quick then we all bathed in sodium benzoiate for a few days and boiled our clothes and the little buggers died. I have no idea why Kian's face blew up like this from the scabies but it was pretty funny.

 

Darian didn't really seem to mind the scabies.

 

 

Zomba central hospital

 

 

While Jeff was working, the kids and I took a hike up the plateau

 

 

Trip to Zomba, Malawi

 

Zomba is a beautiful town next to a plateau that you can hike. Its a really quiet town. We went there so Jeff could visit some of the outreach sites that Baylor has. The Southern part of Malawi is the hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic and there is large demand for doctors there.

 

 

 

This is where we go to church

 

Primary is pretty much a one woman show by me. I don't really know how primary works but I have worked with the nursery kids so we pretty much stick to that schedule. Half of the kids don't speak english and their ages range from 2-10 so we try to mix it up with picture lessons, 4-5 songs that everyone knows, walks around the church grounds and even duck-duck-goose and ring around the rosy. Jeff's job is to teach sunday school to adults.

 

 

 

Our first burglary attempt

 

This is a picture of the wall outside of our house two weeks ago. We had three guys jump over the wall to try to burglarize our house. It was a 1 am and luckily our guard Kenneth was awake and hit his panic alarm. The alarm scared the guys and they all ran off. We got the kids inside our room and G4 Security came and checked things out and left. I thought I would be more scared but neither of us were that worried about it. The alarm is a pretty good deterrent. We've been told to get a dog or two and we've thought about that as well. Apparently burglary season is coming in October and November so we may think more seriously about getting a dog soon. So this happened two weeks ago and I didn't want to post this in case parents or friends would be concerned. Now we have razor wire on top of our wall so it will take a special burglar to get over it. I'd like to see if anyone is up to the task.

 

 

This is a picture of our neighbor's electric wire fence. No one messes with this stuff.