Okay, it is not a big mystery to many people that I am a big fan of Dora. I love my Dora dolls, my Dora videos, my Dora bed sheets, my Dora Memory Game, my Dora Dominoes, my Dora pajamas, my Dora…and the list goes on. I understand that many people back in the States are big fans of Dora too. But, I bet you did not know that Dora was big in
Today when mommy was at the market she bought me a new outfit. Here I am modeling it, proving that Dora is popular the world over!
Out in the village there is no running water. So that means when it is time for me to take a bath, which is every day since it is hot and I sweat during my nap, I take a bucket bath. To take a bucket bath, first you have to get your water. This involves walking to the well and drawing the water. You then carry the water to the shower in a bucket, of course you have to carry the bucket on your head. Here I am carrying a bucket on my head!
After that, you take the bucket of water to the shower for the bath. Normally you just scoop the water out with your hand to get yourself wet, but for me, mommy or daddy throw water on me with a cup. It is fun, especially when you are hot and the water is cold! However, if you really want to have some fun you get a big bucket in which you can sit. That is what I am doing here!
Mommy, Daddy and I have our weekly time of worship here in our house. There are no communities nearby where we can go and worship with others, or at least there are none yet! Here I am all dressed up for our day of worship with jewelry and everything. We have a time of singing, a time of prayer, and a study time. Mommy and daddy typically use a lesson off of the internet for the study time and we have cd’s and books we use for our time of singing.
Well, yesterday I found a fun new game, or at least to me it is a game. We take something which I am told is called “corn” in English and we peel the outside of it off. We start off with a big pile of corn and within 5 or 6 hours we have done all of it! To me it was a fun game as I sat in mommy and daddy’s laps and peeled the outside of the corn off. But it is all a matter of perspective. For the women who were there with us it was a time to visit (i.e. gossip). For the men it was nothing more than work.
Here are pictures of me playing the game and a pile of about half of the corn we peeled yesterday.
Well, I am at home today. Normally our family would be out in the village today, but I was a little sick earlier this week so mommy and I have stayed home the past couple of days. I am feeling better now and we should be heading out to the village tomorrow.
It is October, typically the hottest month of the year here. While April, May and June are hotter temperature-wise (hitting around 115 in the shade), October is the hottest month when you factor in humidity. It is right at the end of rainy season, so the humidity is very high and during the day the temperatures are between 95 to 100 in the shade. As daddy says, you just sit and sweat! But that is okay, because as you can see from my picture today, I am still very cool!!!!
a year, but I have finally figured out how to play with my friends in the village. Of course it took them the same amount of time to figure out how to play with me. Now we have lots of fun playing outside, inside, with toys, with nothing, dancing and anything else we can find to do.
