The picture above is a girl wearing her "new" shoes for the first time. Thanks for those Betty:)
We spent Monday morning with the children at school, teaching and playing games. Scott and I joined their phys ed class, the kids really loved that. We did jumping jacks, races (although Scott ran the wrong way and lost:) There was a big presentation as the school gave us a send-off, with gifts of tea and flour to make ugali - anyone who comes to visit me in Canada I'm going to make you ugali and you are going to enjoy it. Unfortunately we can't bring the flour into Canada, but the thought was nice. During the presentation we presented the concept that we will be covering the installation of a water pump for the school to get the water from the spring to the school, treated, so the school can have access to clean water all year round. We found our water project for this trip.
That afternoon we were taken to yet another water project nearby funded by a group of Canadians. This was nice to see, as we could see the donated pumphouse and water system in action which was to service hundreds of homes. There's a guy, maintenance man, who sleeps in the pump house, and when the reservoir gets full, he adds chlorine in the tank and manually turns on the pump to get the water to high ground, to let gravity send the treated water to the homes.
After the visit to the pump house we went back to the school and spent some good time playing hide and seek with each other - the kids were laughing hysterically. We also talked a fair bit to the teachers about setting up letter writing programs to Cdn students - so both Paul and I will be looking to find a class to do this with in the fall. Our day finished off with another soccer game and awe at the talent of these kids - yes. we were both huffing and puffing.
We just got back to Prisilla's and then headed off to look at some other accommodation for when we return with our families. The accommodation was nice however it was the 2 km walk home which was fun as it was our first walk in this region without a Kenyan escort - lots of looks and Jambo's for sure.
Returning back to Priscilla's, we had a nice dinner together with her family and packed, as we were to leave for Nairobi the following morning.
