Well, after trying SO hard this trip to be prompt with my updates, this one is going up a little late ( Read more... )

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We toured two water projects today. The first one we visited, we were hugely surprised to be met there by a group of people, singing and clapping. The water project is a great big cement collection area, with pipes to bring the collected water to nearby crops. Eric Walters and Creation of Hope raised the money to construct it, so the surprise ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in my previous entry, today was the official opening of the new children's home building. The ceremony was scheduled to start at 10:00am... and actually started at 11:30am. Not surprising. What WAS surprising was that the ceremony actually ended at the scheduled time, 2:00pm ( Read more... )

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If you come to rural Kenya like this, you can expect to give speeches. What your name is, where you're from, greetings from home, if it's your first visit to Kenya or how many other times you've been, and anything else that might be appropriate for the place and audience you're speaking to ( Read more... )

Not much of a schedule today. No photos, sadly ( Read more... )

Last night a group of about a dozen other people arrived in Kikima. They're getting similar tours to the ones we got when we arrived earlier, but the tours are so amazing that they're fully worth doing again ( Read more... )

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We spent a 2nd day teaching at Kyangoma today. Same grade, same subjects ( Read more... )