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Maisha and Nabulu settled to feed on lucerne with their new friends at Ithumba. At least now they are beginning to like the lucerne, but they feed at a distance from the others to avoid being pushed by the seniors. Maisha was the matriarch in the Nursery but here she is one of the babies in the herd, and it has been an adjustment for her. We know when others graduate to Ithumba in the future, she will certainly take them under her wing, and care for them just like Roi, Maramoja and Kamok do now, to those younger than themselves. Nabulu is quite calm and intermingles freely with any one and has settled in very well. 

Siangiki, Oltaiyoni and Galla settled to share a pile of lucerne as the two girls tried to convince Galla to join their older class and perhaps Galla might be interested to graduate to this older group soon, as he too is starting to like exploring his independence.

Out in the bush, Barsilinga, Tusuja and Olsekki parted ways with their friends and decided to go on their own way. At around ten o'clock in the morning, wild-living orphan Orwa, in the company of a wild herd, showed up at the stockades and left later with the same group after drinking enough water. 

At mud bath time the orphans got into the water but only Nabulu, Esampu and Karisa fully participated in the wallowing exercise. The others just splashed themselves and then walked to the big soil mounds to dry themselves off, escorted by Mutara’s herd. Mutara’s herd then left and the dependent orphans carried on browsing. In the afternoon the clouds cleared and it turned quite hot, so the orphans took a break from feeding to relax under a tree. Musiara challenged Mundusi but their game was cut short by Kauro who pushed the two boys away. 

Bomani, who has been away for sometime, is back now and it's not clear where he has been for all this time! He used to be Orwa's best friend but we aren’t sure what happened to end their friendship. After feeding on lucerne, the ex-orphans and dependent orphans parted ways, only to meet up again at the mud bath. Kamok and Olsekki had a strength testing exercise that lasted for quite some time. 

Bomani settled to pass the time with the dependent orphans and played with Sattao, Dololo and Karisa as he taught them pushing tactics that he had learned while he was away. At mud bath time, ten wild bulls were present and after a brief interaction with the orphans the wild bulls moved to one corner of mud bath and had fun there, while the orphans used the other corner, before going back out to the bush to browse. Barsilinga, Tusuja, Olsekki, Oltaiyoni, Roi, Kamok, Naseku and Siangiki teamed up with Mutara’s herd and ended up coming back to the stockades later.