6 Miles

Well our Friday was interesting. Our morning classes were empty…we spent the first bit getting crafts ready for VBS:

Then we spent a great deal of time just sitting around, relaxing in the sun and having tea.

We went for a walk in the gardens and got a picture of the two of us together for the boys–by the banana trees they find so funny:

And this is my favorite drink here–it’s a ginger soda. It’s VERY tasty on a hot afternoon, after playing with the kids at VBS. Tangawizi is Swahali (sp?) for ginger.

VBS was rather different today…Fridays are the kids “Sports Time”. I don’ t have the pictures on my computer yet (nor the time to download them, it’s after midnight here) but I will be sure to share some pictures of me doing the warm up with the kids (a time they warm up for their games with a teacher who is a former soccer player) as well as the kids playing dodge ball and Red Rover. Then we just had time for a few songs and we gave them the small toys we’d brought for the end of each day. We’ll go back to a normal VBS on Monday.

This weekend we’re all going to different host families. Most of the team will be going to a family they’ve never met before from Nairobi Chapel. We are getting to stay with some friends from our church who are missionaries out here. We were very happy to see them and got to bring them a nice full bag of items from people in the States–it was a late Christmas for them! They enjoyed opening everything. Tomorrow we are going out to see an area they have established a center for a church, that is run by a local. We’ll get to sleep in the center that has no running water, and go to a local church on Sunday. We may even visit a typical Masi house and have chai tea! We’re looking forward to the adventure, but I MUST go to bed now. I was finally getting caught up on sleep, I can’t ruin that now!

We did get to call the boys tonight and the first thing Will said to me was he only had 9 more chains left on the chain until the Monday we come back (Actually it’s 10 but we won’t quibble).  Then we spent some time talking about how hot it is here and how they don’t get cold/snow, and how they have rainy seasons but we’ve had no rain. Will was worried they weren’t getting rain for the baby banana’s to grow.  I didn’t tell him that they are actually in a drought because the last rainy season was not very long. Alex didn’t say much, but it was nice to hear both their voices. We really appriciate the family keeping us updated on James’ sister’s blog and through Facebook, and are glad they are liking the pictures. Sorry we got cut off Tessa–I wouldn’t hang up without saying “hi” to you! I was just glad I’d gotten the “bye” in to Alex.

Thank you for all our prayers!