Tony and Laura Lewry

Last week I had to visit the bathroom in the middle of the night. Whilst there I may have closed my eyes for a few minutes. I was woken up when the toilet frog jumped into my lap and down my leg. It gave me quite a fright and I now know not to fall asleep on the toilet again! Laura

Found this beetle outside our room the other night

oh no! look what Tony has done to his foot.. this looks all too familar! ... don't worry it's just face paints! We had a great day last weekend helping out at he family day. It rained a little but we had fun. I was face painting and enjoyed the chance to be creative.

Went snorkelling on the weekend and took a few cool photos, with my water proof camera, which proceeded to fill with water and now does not work!! This made me ANGRY!!

All the bricklaying is completed and we are now working on the concrete beam across the top and the 4 beams that connect the wall with the school.

For the last few weeks we have been joined by a team from Texas we had a special breakfast to thank them and say goodbye. There was so many interesting things to try from sharky (a cured meat) to fried yucca, and a milky sweetcorn soup. Some of it was nice!! These are some of our friends on the team.

This is the construction that is going on behind our room (we live at the far end of the block you can see on the left) this is the roof from which the man fell. Apparently he has two broken arms, I would say that is very lucky (or a blessing!). This will be the new missionary training centre and classrooms and conference room that we will meet in for services and morning chapel. This is the chapel at the moment. Its very sweet. The staff meet in there every morning and every Tuesday evening we have a service for the community.

Just now one of the workers from the construction site ( different one to Tony's) fell 3 storeys without any protection, he's not in a good way. The ambulance is coming but it's taking a while. We are all quite worried.

For our main meal on Friday we had rice, a spoonful of potato salad and three quarters of a boiled egg!!! I consider this to be a bloggable offence!!!

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Last night out on the streets of down town Recife I had the most profound experience. We were approached by a man who needed first aid, which was nothing out of the ordinary as we carry a conspicuous whites box with a red cross on it and regularly give first aid. On this particular occasion a man was needed to administer the help. as the patient was bleeding from the left butt cheek, which was evident from the large blood stain on his shorts. I was called over and asked to help, to which I agreed, after a brief initiation into what was in the first aid box, I took the man a little down the road to gain a little privacy. The moment had come and he dropped his shorts!! I was face to face with a nasty looking abscess, which was oosing blood and puss. By this point so many things are rushing through my mind! What am I doing? I am so out of my depth, can I clean this up with out vomiting? how must this man be feeling? will he be able to keep it clean once I have finished? Any way I had t...

today for dinner we had soup, mine had 2 small cubes of boiled beef, a light sprinkling of mince meat and a solitary fragment of sliced reconstituted ham, apart from the aforementioned fragments of assorted meat, the soup primeraly consisted of potato, spaghetti, carrots and a salty chicken stock (I think). I suplimmented this with 2 bread roles from the shop down the road, and butter. I am sorry to say that I could not finish the soup, is was not half as nice as I have described it!! I really miss cooking!!!

This week I found this tiny gecko, isn't he cute!!

This week our electric mosquito swat broke so we bought a new one and the little blighters are terrified!! also we got some cadberys buttons in the post and they had kind of melted into one lump, but it tasted divine!!! thanx Mim and Chris!!

We are now building form-work to pour the concrete into for the columns and half way beam. We have made a work platform out of old bits of wood that we found!!

This weekend our bestest Brazilian freinds got married!! In December we will be sharing a house with them This is their cake For desert we had loads of hand made chocolates!!