Thea's update

Hi. It's me, Thea, again. So, life here is pretty good. We have goats and chickens now, but you probably already heard that from Mom. The goats' names are Fili and Kili, after two of the dwarves in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein. The chickens' names are Princess Leia, Hope, Gift, and Wilhelmina, or Willy for short. We're going to breed Kili tomorrow. Gift has lots of rooster husbands (they are roosters that don't belong to us, they just hang around our house, we don't have any roosters). She has already laid some most-likely fertilized eggs. But she probably won't start constantly sitting on them until she has more.

School's also pretty good: it's only for 4 hours each day, with a 30 minute tea break where we don't actually drink tea. On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays we have a 2 hour lunch break, and then we go back to school. (But that's only for the older kids.) On Wednesdays and Fridays we do art; on Friday we also do PE and Music. (All music is is watching nursery rhyme videos on the teacher's laptop. Me, Lev, and another kid do more educational music with my dad on Wednesdays. But we also do music with the rest of the class on Friday.) Also on Wednesday and Friday, Lev and I do science with Dad.

I spend most of my time at home playing with the neighbor kids and reading. There's this thing we play with the neighbor kids called "Bakery" where we make fake cakes out of sand and dirt and flowers and papaya seeds. But now when we play Bakery, we mostly just smash bricks and charcoal into dust and sell it to each other for other things to smash.

The Bakery.

That's pretty much what life is like here for me. Tiwonana! Tchau! Doei! Adios! Tschüss! (That's how you say bye in multiple different languages. [Chichewa, Portugese, Dutch, Spanish, and German.]) Bye!