Hey! Sorry, I was really tired last night and didn't get around to finish my blog. So here is yesterday's, the 5th and I will post today's, the 6th, shortly. :)
Thursday, VBS day with the kids. Fun and exhausting day! hehe
Woke up, ate breakfast, had our daily devotions for today.. you know, the usual. hehe :) Btw, Tom won the warthog today. :)
Loaded up the vans and headed out to the Junction for some members to exchange more money while others went at got "Melindi's", really yummy coffee drink. :) We got to the village around 9:30am-10am and when we started to go to the school they told us not to come until noon... So we were kinda confused as what to do because our whole day was focused on the kids. Some of us just talked with the young adults that were there and visited. I brought my photo album and showed some pictures of the seasons (they have never seen snow or the changing of the leaves. :) It was great to see there reactions. hehe) and some pictures of family and friends. (Don't worry I didnt have any bad pictures of anyone! :) hehe)
After a little while, Doug asked me, Jamie, Elizabeth, and Denise if we wanted to go see the water tanks and see how water was distributed throughout the village. The first one we saw was the main tank that distributed water to the other tanks throughout the village. It was responsible for pumping the water UP to the tanks on the hills and then gravity would bring the water down to homes. Sounds pretty simple. :) We then proceeded to walk UP to one of the water tanks.
-OH. MY. GOODNESS. On my way up, I realized how out of shape I was and realized I need to work out a lot more. haha! I barely made it halfway up and I was already gasping for air! haha. However, in my defense, we were at least 7,000 feet above sea level and the air can get pretty thin up there. haha! It is just simply amazing to me that young and old women constantly walk up and down these hills! Most of the time carrying at least 50lbs on their backs or heads. Oh man did I feel out of shape! Haha. Something else I noticed was how hard Africans work. I feel soo lazy compared to how hard they work. I was talking with one of the guys about when he wakes up on the weekends and he said about 6am. He had to go find work when he wasn't in school during the week. When I told him that I sometimes sleep till noon he laughed and said, "wow!" They truly are hard workers and know what it means to support themselves, something I need to work on. Haha.
Anyway, once we arrived to the top there was a beautiful view of the valley. :) it was so worth all of the walking. Btw, these paths we were walking were NOT level or easy by any means which makes it ten times harder and ten times more impressive for those who walk it everyday. We then proceeded to walk a little further in order to get a Gorgeous view of mt. Walgamot. :) amazing, simply amazing. We took pictures and headed back down the massive hill. :)
When we arrived back at the clinic we took out supplies and headed to the school. Now what we had planned was a bible verse (John 15), that we acted out in a little skit. Then we did a song that had motions to it that went along with the verse. After that, we helped the kids do a craft, which was making a paper flower. And finally praying with them. We did this.. 8 times!! Haha! We did it for each grade. It was a lot of fun, especially bringing smiles and laughter to these kids faces while telling them about Jesus. :) We stopped halfway through to eat lunch and then finished up.
Once we finished it was time to go. We said goodbye and then headed for dinner. Sadly, we didn't end up eating Chinese food cuz Nathan, the doctor of the group, (haha) said it prolly wasn't a good idea because tomorrow is Safari day! And it would absolutely awful to be sick for that day. Haha (it was a restaurant that Brenda and Doug hadn't tried yet and didn't want to risk anything) Instead we went to the Java House. :) it was yummy.
We returned home and got ready for bed. :) The next day was safari day!! The day I was most looking forward too!! :D wake up call was 5:30am! Whoa. Haha. But so worth it. We would be traveling to Nakuru Game Park. It was about two and a half hours away. That's why we had to leave so early. But again, sooo worth it!! :)
Well, that's about all for today. I will talk to you soon! Thank you everyone for your prayers!! :))
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