Tanzania=Wonderful

Sorry this post is late....i did write it on sunday but couldnt get to the internet cafe until today!! 

 

I can’t believe that I have been here for over a month! Time is going by so fast!! This week was a really good one!! 

We went to Kitulezu every morning from 8:30 till 11:00. The kids are getting used to us being there and so they have been acting pretty crazy!! It has been hard to get them to listen to us because we don’t speak Swahili and I don’t think they know us enough to know that we are being serious so they all just kind of laugh at us even if we are talking in Swahili! We had our friend Adalaida translate some phrases to use with the kids and I think if we can actually learn how to say them it will help the kids listen to us better! On Thursday and Friday Verity wasn’t there and she has all the school supplies and stuff that the kids use so Kate, Britt, and I were just kind of winging it for two days with an itty bitty piece of chalk! Haha Thursday was actually pretty good and the kids listened and did a good job and sitting in their chairs but Friday was a different story! They were really grumpy from the start and they love to just beat each other up! So it was a little rough to get anything done but we did play a math game that kept them entertained for a while which was good!  Hopefully Verity is back tomorrow because then we can put our plan into place! We are wanting to split  the kids up into two groups and have the older kids go in one room and help them with adding and subtracting and then we will take the little kids in the other room and focus on the alphabet. Kate and I have been making little alphabet papers to help them trace the letters so they can get a feel of how you from the letter and the correct way to write it! We think it will help a lot because a lot of the younger kids don’t know how to write their letters and so they just don’t participate in class but splitting them up will give us a chance to give them one on one time and get them caught up with the rest of the kids! 

my favorite little twins meshack and shadrack

Thursday we welcomed all the second wavers and all the first wavers leave on Wednesday! It is going to be weird to pretty much have a completely new group of people and I’m going to be sad to see everyone go! It will be good though to change things up a bit and it looks like things are really going to be taking off and we are going to be super busy the rest of the summer and that will be great!!! Chanel is meeting with Martha from the Albino Peacemakers Group on Monday and she is going to set up a meeting with her for Brittnee and I and then we can talk to her about starting up our jewelry business idea! Hopefully we can get that started soon cuz both of us are super excited!!!! 

Yesterday on our day off Me, Kate, Britt, and Lindsey went to the Snake Park!! It was actually really cool and we had a lot of fun!! They had a lot of the snakes behind glass windows cuz they are super poisonous! So we walked around and looked at those than they had a vulture like from Lion King!! That was pretty sweet but really ugly!! Haha We also saw some owls and a baboon!! Some people there were feeding the baboon candy and it was sooo funny to see him eat! Also who knew that baboon butts were soo ugly?! Not me!! They are creepy and gross!! Haha We also got to see A LOT of crocodiles!! From baby ones to HUGE ones!! They give me the heebeegeebees!! But it was cool to see the big ones crawl out of the water! They have the baby ones in a small cage where you can touch them so Lindsey touched them and then kate was to scared so she threw a rock instead and they started hissing! It was so scary!! Umm…after we saw all of the animals this guy helped us hold a snake!! It wasn’t a very big one but it was still creepy and gross! But I had to do it!! He even wrapped it around our necks like a necklace!! Crazy crazy! After we were done freaking ourselves out we went and looked at the Maasai  Museum and then we rode a camel!!! Yep, a camel!! Haha it was so random and hilarious!! They had two camels so we all got on at the same time and the second camel kept sticking its nose Britts back and all of us were just laughing and screaming and the guys running the rides were getting a big kick out of us! Haha

kate lookin like a model! ANTM for sure!

yea.....i was really creeped out!

so was Britt

forced a smile! haha

these guys kept hissin at us! YIKES!!

Maasai statues at the museum

baboon!!

a Maasai hut!

Yep! We rode a camel in Africa!

Kate and Lindsay

our friends that sold us our lovely jersies. we had to bride them with candy and gum! haha

Well hope all of you are doing well and that this blog isn’t to scatter brained to follow! Haha Oh and a shout out to my Papa on Father’s Day! Hope you are having a good one!! LOVE YA!!