House 1

Tonight we went to House 1 from Oasis of Hope to have dinner with the boys... Evans, Edwin, Jonah, Paul, Braumwel, and Elvis( when he's not in school) all live in House 1
And as we figured it was so much fun...

We had Chipati and potatoes and meat for dinner...They normally eat chipati on wednesday nights, but they saved it and moved it back to friday night for us...


SO while Allison and I were hard at work in the kitchen with Edwin and Jonah, Paul and Chris decide to turn on some music and thats where these come in...


BFF


Not to worry, we had our own fun...

Oh Alice


I burned myself a couple times on the jiko, theyre freaking hot


Edwin REALLY likes Alice...


And right about now is when the camera got taken over by someone with a very large amount of grease on their hands...


Braum wasn't feeling well because he had Typhoid so he laid down until dinner... I almost didnt see him under the blanket he is so skinny...


Evans...


Jonah...


Alice loved this little window and insisted on serving out of it...


Chris used this same window for his photo shoot, clever...


Post-dinner activities included Chris teaching the boys how to fart with their armpit...Paul eventually caught on...


While Jonah just failed...He couldn't seem to get the right form...Up under the shirt, not over...he had it all wrong


Wrapped up by Chris' impression of Dirty Harry...


I think one of the best parts of the night, because there were multiple, was Chris exposing his food baby


Evans saw the burns on my ankle and asked if he could fix it for me. He busted out every item in the first aid kit...He put things on my foot that had nothing to do with a burn, but he was so excited to be "the doctor"...he did a good job


Tomorrow...Futbol (soccer) game!

Pool Day!

Today we took some of the kids from Sister Fredas to the pool at the Kitale Club and it was soooooo fun... Its the second time we've done it and I think, i hope it, becomes a regular thing...
Fair warning there are a lot of pictures of Elia...Just sayin...

The kids in their new swimsuits, testing the water...


Esther and Morgan...The anticipation was killing them...


Allison & tiny Jaci


Believe it or not Elia liked being splashed...and then theres my white self...awful, so sorry if your eyes are hurting right now...



Just how big are my glasses?


Thoughtful...


Cute Esther...


close up


Oh Moses and his ringworm...



Pampers lies, they can't hold everything...


I know you think it looks like Im am exploiting him for a good picture, well I was...


Allison's friend Speedo, yes, his name really is Speedo, brought us some chips, A.K.A. fries...




Morgan and his chips...



Moses stuck a fry in his Fanta and by the time he got it out all the Fanta was gone and the fry was orange...seriously kid


African kids are awesome...


In other news, Chris found a stupid hat...and wore it ALL day...

Malaria Shmalaria...

How Chris kick starts his day...

Today we went to Oasis instead of Sister Fredas because the electricity company was supposed to turn power back on so we could get some more files and work done, but it didn’t happen.
When we got there we found Jonah and Braumwel hanging out…Well not really hanging out they were sick so they were not in school and going to go to Sister Fredas for medicine…

Since we had no power and there wasn’t much for me to do and I love Sister Fredas, Elia, and the boys, I went with them out to Fredas with 3 other kids who were sick, Rodgers, Teresa, and Joan…

In Freda's waiting room instead of magazines, she has cats to keep you entertained...


Braum...


Elia, you probably can't tell but he's getting fatter...

They were tested for Malaria and Typhoid. All went well except when Joan had to get her finger pricked for her blood test…She freaked out and kept trying to swat the needle out of the nurses hand, which only stabbed her more.

Braum wanted a mirror to see himself, all I hade was my powder compact...Which ended up as war paint all over their face...


Intimidation face...I put the same powder on my face, I guess Ill have to rely on my muscles for intimidation...


Sooo her freak out didn’t work because I held her down and she got it taken anyway, haha! Unfortunately for her, that wasn’t the biggest needle she was going to see today. She ended up with Malaria and had to get the first of 3 shots, which the needles for are ENORMOUS…even the adults that have had it say its pretty painful… We could hear her screams from outside the building, poor girl.

Cute little Teresa was so tough


Me & the little man...

As it turns out they were all sick, either with Malaria or Typhoid, bummer

The nurse passing out the drugs and instructions...
At the end of the day all the kids are fine and will be back to normal in a couple days...I was really happy to get to go with them...

Tomorrow is pool day!!!

New Kids On the Block

yesterday morning at Oasis some new boys committed to coming to the center…Chris had met and spent some time with 3 street boys last week and had told them to come to Oasis…and they did! It was their 3 day in a row and they had their interviews ad pictures taken.



Oasis gave them shirts and Chris took them to the kinyozi to get their heads shaved…you should have seen how excited they were… Speaking of which you should have seen how excited Chris was…it was really awesome to see these kids come in at the beginning and hopefully watch them progress over the next couple of months…its probably even cooler for Chris since he found them.



Their brand new shirts


This afternoon was spent at a school called Gilgol, just outside of Kipsongo. I have never been there before and wasn’t really sure what to expect, but by the time I left I loved it…So much so that I think I might teach Geography 2 times a week…

Chris is the new P.E. Teacher at Gilgol...here he is showing how important stretching is...


I really enjoyed the students and I really like Ben & Christine, who run the school (they also happen to be the same couple that we had a slumber party at their house a couple weeks ago).
Ben & Christine have some amazing ministries north of Kitale in an area of Turkana called Kakuma and Lodwar. Ben is asked to speak and teach all over east Africa and he does a lot of work up in the Sudan.


Gabriel is the tall one in the red...


All of the kids that are at the school are from refugee camps that Ben has worked in either around Kitale when the clashes happened 8 months ago or up in Kakuma and Lodwar.
A lot of the refugees that are up in the Turkana camps are from southern Sudan and 4 of those refugees have made their way to Ben’s school.



Newton, 19, Gabriel, 20, John,16, and John, 18, have known each other since they were young and all fled Sudan around 2000 when the Sudanese in the south were being killed by government forces…
This is Newton, he wants to be a journalist, so Im going to bring newspapers and teach him how to write...

Newton told me that he lost his mom that year because she was murdered…His father and 5 siblings still live up near Juba, Sudan.
I’m excited to go back next week


Last night, the caretaker of our property, Ayub, came in while we were watching one of my favorite movies (Good Will Hunting) and asked if we could help him out…He wanted sunglasses…After jokingly suggesting mine (he almost accepted) Chris found some that he could have…

Classy...


Clearly what pimps are made of...