Another ending story!!!!

Hi everyone,

Another week has passed and I could write a book about what has happened. For the first time we have been subjected to HIV, one of the girls Estere, 9 years old was tested and the results were positive poor little thing has no idea that she is HIV positive. ( She is for us the first but I am sure not the last). One of the boys Blessings has got Malaria but luckily he is being treated. (If we were not here, he could of died). It makes you think what the hell is going to happen when we leave but every one we speak to said even if you only give these wonderful children three months of care, love and attention it is better than nothing. On monday evening we were visited by the biggest spider I have ever seen except for in the zoo. I said calmly "Oh whats that?" Lisette had a fit she jumped on the chair screaming. I caught him and put him in a pot. The same evening we discovered our policemen (for which I pay a lot of money for Malawi terms) were a sleep. I stood next to one for several minutes I could of easily killed him. I hit the roof and frightened the SHIT out of them later I checked that they were wide a wake. Daily we are discovering our Father Goodwill is not as holy as he makes out to be but on the other hand we admire him for running????? the orphanage otherwise they would be left on the streets to die. That brings me to my next story. We went to the Police Station to pay for our guards and a 12 yearold boy who lives on the streets had just been arrested for stealing 2 ducks. The week before he was arrested for stealing a radio which he stole to buy food. We wanted to take him to the orphanage but the police said we shouldn't because he is a born criminal and would have a bad influence on the other children. Apparently Malawi has the most orphans in Africa because of the Aids problem. I have started teaching the children English some of them are reasonable. One boy Gifty is very bad so I give him extra lessons every day I am also training the older children for there exams. That is also a problem because most of them have no books. On Saturday morning picked up the doctor and his assistant and he spent most of the day checking all the 66 children. Fortunately 42 are reasonably healthy, several have dental problems (they have never been to the dentist), two need to have there eyes tested, a few have skin infections and approximately 10 need to be tested for HIV, it is probably better to test them all. If they are found positive and are at a certain stage they can get medicine to prolong the symptons. Ok time to stop and the next episode will follow next week. Thanks to all the people who have reacted to my site, sorry I don't have time to reply to you all personally but it's a good feeling to know so many people are interested. Bye for now.
Love Sue, kiss