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A certain young wild bull who has joined the ex-orphans was present during the lucerne feeding time this morning. This young bull is showing up almost every morning and every evening for the free lucerne. Out in the bush, Tusuja got annoyed with Lemoyian who came to climb on him as he was enjoying rolling on the ground. Tusuja got up and tackled Lemoyian, but the tough Lemoyian didn’t give in, so the two boys continued to fight until Suguta intervened by separating the two boys. Frustrated, Tusuja didn’t want to stick around so he rumbled to call his friend Barsilinga. Barsilinga was enjoying a pushing game with Enkikwe, but quit that game and responded to Tusuja's call. The two boys walked away only to return later in the evening when all the dependent orphans had already settled into their stockades for the night. 

Pare came across a bent tree that he used to scratch his itchy belly on. At mud bath time, though it was quite cool, Maisha, Nabulu, Lemoyian, Kilaguni and Esampu fully enjoyed wallowing in the water before joining their friends in a soil dusting exercise. 

In the afternoon, Ndiwa had her own lone game of rolling on the ground. The rest of the day was quiet and in the evening, ex-orphan Challa reported to the stockade compound, shortly later followed by some wild elephants who also came for a drink of water; this is an indication to us that the dry season is setting in, and sure quite how long it will last. 

It was a quiet morning. Soon after leaving the stockades and having their lucerne, the dependent orphans teamed up with Mutara’s herd and headed to the Kone area where they settled to browse. 

Enkikwe and Maramoja, who have been promoted to the next class, settled to feed together and had a long conversation. Later, the two parted ways and Maramoja went to look for her favourite Musiara. 

Kilaguni reported early at the mud bath and enjoyed a cooling off exercise before the dependent orphans joined him after having their milk bottles. The drama queen Esampu got into the water and started trumpeting as she ran through the water. Her trumpeting got other orphans excited and they responded by trumpeting as well as they enjoyed a cooling off exercise, and later a soil dusting exercise. 

Sana Sana and Malkia walked and stood under a tree for some time, enjoying a girl to girl talk that ended when they saw Olsekki approaching. Karisa and Malima decided to dig a hole with their feet to make some loose soil, before proceeding to dust themselves. Later, Karisa engaged Ndiwa in light strength testing exercise. The afternoon was quiet as the orphans concentrated on browsing throughout the remaining part of the day without any major distractions. 

Kilaguni was still sleeping outside the stockades when the dependent orphans were let out. As soon as he heard them coming out, Kilaguni woke up and stood facing the lucerne store in anticipation of a good breakfast. Suguta and her group waited for their Dololo outside the gate, and escorted him for lucerne. Shortly later two groups of wild herds showed up and joined the orphans to feed on lucerne without asking permission from anyone. One of the females had a one month old baby. Interestingly Sities abandoned Dololo and decided to familiarize herself with the small baby, suggesting that she is just happy to be around any small babies! Esampu the drama queen wasn't left out either, but also placed herself in the queue so as to have a glimpse of the baby. When the lucerne finished, the wild herd left. Maisha and Nabulu decided to follow the wild herd since there were babies their size within the group, but the Keepers quickly intervened to make sure that the two girls didn't go with the wild herd. It was a cool morning and the orphans enjoyed their time browsing. 

At mud bath time the orphans had their milk then settled for soil dusting since it was too cold for them to get into the water. Sattao settled to play with Pare but their game was cut short by Wanjala who passed by and pushed Sattao so hard that he cried out. Wanjala was cautioned by the Keepers to stop bullying the small boys. 

In the afternoon, the orphans settled to browse east of Ithumba Hill. Rapa, Sana Sana and Wanjala decided to feed far away from the others and when it was time to return to the compound the three couldn’t be found. An hour later the Keepers found them however and they were escorted back to the stockades for the night.