A kind of tradition has developed with me and my exercise routine here in Omungwelume. Not that I run too often or do it on particular days, really, but I can count on one thing... the "village" almost always comes with me. As I exit the gates of Eegedjo, the Oshilumbu in her jogging attire is spotted. This creates an ammassing of children around me as I jog down the street--usually in short skirts and always bare feet. And they run with me- girls and boys of anywhere between 7 and 17..and amazingly enough, the almost always make it the whole distance with me..regardless of how far I go. More often the kids are younger so we do a variety of songs and games to keep them going and distracted. Its pretty typical to see us jogging along the gravel road singing "There was a great big moose" or "Bingo" or "If you're happy and you know it". Or doing races or other such things. Often our dogs accompany me as well, or find me en route, and charge after us, tripping me as I go (yesterday was dogs and kids).
Sundays sometimes I can get out without them noticing. I thought I was to have a run to myself and got almost half way when I realized the whole time, 4 girls were charging up behind me at full speed, trying to catch me. They reached me pretty exhausted and realized that they still had to run all the way back.
Either way, its great fun, and its an amusing way to take part in the life of the village.
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Hello:
Finally caught up on your blogs. They are always so nice to read. Makes you feel so much closer than you are.
You may be on your holiday break with Brian and Charis (Mom & Dad) by now.
That will be an interesting experience for the 4 of you to set off tenting. I am sure there will be two different versions to it all.
I sure enjoyed my 2 mos. in Australia and 1 wk in Waikiki. So many beautiful beaches and tropical rainforests. Not too hot when we were there either.
Enjoy your time together. Big hugs are coming your way...Aunty Carole
Hey Chloe great fun to hear you are running. I started uo formally in Jan. I did a 5k race in march, and the TC 10K ia coming up this Sunday. Feels great!
Cheers,
Byron
This is the cutest! Hope you guys are both well and that the Planet Earth videos that Blake sent are working well!
Thinking of you both lots!
xoxo annie
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