Saturday

We had one new child at Good News Club today - 6 year old Renee invited 14 year old Sebastian (known as Bessie). The big attraction seems to be our pets, that are played with after the lesson - first it was the kitten, and now it is the dogs (pronounced "douwgs")

Pugs are heavy breathers, and I was told that "the douwgs sound is pigs like".

While Good News was in progress, Graeme had closed the dogs in our bedroom in order to give Clawd some time to play freely in the lounge. No problem to the 5 children who had arrived to play with them - they simply all trapsed upstairs and sat in our bedroom playing with the dogs, while I was downstairs with 2 more children, playing with the cat. (Luckily, I grew up in a home where there were often a number of our friends filling the rooms at one time. My mother always welcomed them and made them feel at home. One 8 year old German little boy, Thomas, used to visit her because she gave him the centre of the cabbage to munch on when she was preparing supper)

Vontray is becoming very comfortable in our home, and often just pops in for a short visit. Today he offered to help me weed my garden. Then he went home for about 30 mins, only to come back and present me with a tomato plant that he had pulled up out of his granny's garden.... He stayed for lunch, then watched a DVD with Graeme, with Cho sitting comfortably on his lap. At 5.00pm I had to insist that he went home.


The dogs were more accepting of Clawd today, and there were no mad chases. They seem to want constant attention, though, and jump on our laps as soon as we sit down anywhere.