Day 20

Every day that I spend here, the more I fall in love with it. Especially today. Two days ago, I realized I was in love with the seven-ish kids at Boona Baana. Today, I went to Kidzcare orphanage (which I mentioned in an earlier post) which was founded and is still run by Mary, one of the sweetest, most caring, servant-hearted women you will ever meet! After arriving, we started at the nursery school (aka kindergarten) which was fairly new and very well done, but only had two rooms with mats on the floor and one desk for the teacher. They were learning the alphabet today, as well as common words in English. For break we went outside and played "Saa ngapi Mr. Wolf" (What time is it Mr. Wolf), London Bridge, and Simon Says. After, we sat down and read books and sang songs. So cute!

At 11am when the kids got out, we went over to the orphanage for our (first) lunch - so good! We had about an hour and a half before the first few kids came home from school. We played hopscotch, basketball, soccer, and drew in the sand with them. After the second group of kids arrived from school, we sat down for (second) lunch - ugali! Although there was a slight language barrier, we had the most fun with these kids. It started pouring rain in the afternoon and they thought we were crazy for running around out there, but eventually they joined us - it was a blast! Lots of singing and dancing in the jioni (afternoon), and by the time Mary came to pick us up I did not want to say goodbye. Aside from the Green Door Home, I had never been to an orphanage before and now I am hooked! I want to come back to Kidzcare for at least a month next time though, anybody want to come with?

These pictures are only from the nursery school, orphanage pics are on someone else's camera!
With love,