Canadians

Well the last few weeks have been busy once again.  I team from Guelph was here.  It was so good to spend time with some Canadians.  Since they were “our people” we did a lot of hosting.  They were here to do some construction at the school.  There was also a teacher in the group who came and helped during my library time over lunch.  The kids loved it.  Then team would also come after school to spend time with the kids.  There was a few from the team that played chess so the high school kids were excited to have some time to play with them.  When the team was in the library it got really full and crazy.  I forgot I was the white person as all the attention was on the new white people.  It was interesting.  When they left there was a lot of sad faces.

I have also made two trips to Nairobi in the last two weeks.  The first trip was to spend time with a couple that I have met since being here.  The second trip was to go and take the team back to the airport which was fun to do.  We had supper with them were I enjoyed a wonderful hamburger and a taste of a T-bone steak.  I do and will miss BBQing this year.  I also went to purchase Microsoft Office for my computer since I have not had it since it fell when I first came.  Now I have it and it makes life a lot easier.

The library continues to go well.  The kids only have until Aug. 5^th before school will be done for this term.  So there time in the library is coming to a close soon.  Next Friday they will start there end term exams and then will all go home on the 5^th.  Then I will clean up the library.

The weather here continues to be cooler.  The rains have come which is good because the crops really need them.  With the rain comes cooler weather.  A fire in the evening is defiantly needed.  You also know when it is cooler in the house is when margarine in hard.  But as they say here the rain means full bellies.  So let the rain come.

Continuing in God's work

I have come to realize that it has been a while since I posted a blog.  Life here has been busy  and filled with lots of good things.  The library continues to go well.  The high school kids continue to enjoy learning chess.  They are looking for it every day.  It is good to see.  It is a game I never thought I would enjoy but I am coming to enjoy it more all the time.  The academy kids continue to looking forward to coming to the library.  Monday after school was full as you can see from the pictures.  Sometimes hard to maintain but good to see the them enjoying themselves.  I have also added a cabinet to the library which has been very helpful in organizing things.  This help with not having to carry items back and forth and the hope of keeping them much cleaner.

It is hard to believe that my scheduled time here in over in less then two months.  Because my visa was only valid for three months and I am hear longer this required me to have it renewed.  This is not always an easy things but last week it was done.  I have it extended until Oct. 14th.

The weather is getting cooler.  July is the coldest month in the area that I am staying in.  The mornings and evenings are quite cool.  Some mornings you can see your breath.  So most evenings we have first in our living room.  It is so nice but a little weird to be thinking of doing this in July. The heat stays in the living room so when it is time for bed you warm up in front of the fire and then jump into bed.  In the morning you hope the sun comes because it will warm you up.  It has been sunny for quite some time.  We are is desperate need of rain.  The crops are planted and coming well but the mazie is in strong need of rain for it to continue to grow.  As they say here "it will come it has too".

Today I helped cut potato's for the kids to have for supper.  It take a lot to feed 300 kids.  I was also cutting them while sitting on a bench hunched over.  Not the most comfortable but how they do it.  There will be more to cut as the week goes and will be happy to help.