Peace Begins With A Smile: This time for Africa!

We started off our week with a visit to Green Eden in Namanga. It has been a week since we went and taught IOL there so we went back to check on the teachers and award the teachers their certificates! Emmanuel had asked Brittnee to make a giant sign for the school and so we had figure out a way to get the sign there without it getting ruined. Lucky for us Loth saved us and gave us to the bus station. Of course when we got there everyone was very helpful and we found a mini bus that we could squish our sign into and then followed the most uncomfortable ride of my life!! For the next hour and a half I was hunched of next to this sign and both my legs fell asleep! Haha always an adventure traveling in Africa! We got there safely and met Emmanuel at the bus station and he led us to what we thought was a short cut but really he took us to his house and his wife and prepared us japati and spinach and warm milk! It was really delicious and so sweet of them!! After that we went to the school and talked to the teachers about how their week! It was really cool to hear the teachers talk about their classes and how they implemented the things we taught them and how much their students loved it! We were all really glad to hear that especially since we weren’t sure how much they had actually learned from us! We then awarded them their certificates and ate cookies!! The gorilla poops were a huge success and everyone loved them!! I am so glad I got to meet these teachers and get to know them! They are so sweet and were able to teach us so much! I am glad that we were able to teach them something so that they can make a difference in their students’ lives and help break the mold of how it is now in the schools!

Journey to Namanga

the worst car ride ever!

Emmanuel's sweet wife and our yummy lunch!

Britt and Emmanuel and her awesome sign! she did such a great job!!

All of our teachers!

eating our gorilla poops!

they gave us corn right off the stalk as a thank you! we were really excited!

We went to Kitulezo as much we could this week and I just really love these kids!! The kids did really well with the alphabet papers that we made and I was soo excited!! We finally got some of the little ones that have never talked before to interact and participate! It was so great!! One day when they were drinking their porridge all the kids started to play dala-dala and it was the FUNNIEST thing I have ever seen!! One of the little boys named Venance was the “door man” and he was banging on the table and yelling our the places and acting just like the real dala-dala door men act! He was pulling the kids in and pretending to take their money and it was just soo funny to watch!!! The kids are finally kind of starting to listen to us!! I hope that it continues to get better!!

Walking home from school with little Widson!

Miri and Happyness

This little cutie is Lightness

Neema looking like a boss

VIVI!

This week was the last week for the people that were only here for first wave and it was sad to see them go!! Kate and I made slideshow of all our pictures and our funny quotes and put it to music and then had a little party on Tuesday night and ate gorilla poops and popcorn and played some awesome games of Mafia! We took Des to chocolate tempations(a really yummy desert place) one last time and then we went to the Maasai market to get her some last things. It was good to spend time with her! I am going to miss her and Heather and Kiley! Our team is all different now and it is weird but still good!!

Chocolate Temptaions

ridin on the dala-dala

So Brittnee and I had this idea to start a jewelry business with the Albino Peacemakers group. When we first met Martha we really wanted to do something to help her and her organization so we thought jewelry would be a good idea because they can’t outside and making jewelry would be perfect for them! Our idea is to have them make the jewelry and then mail it to us in the states and we will run an online business where we sell the jewelry and then send all the money back to Martha here for the organization. So we had a meeting this week with Martha and the project is a go!! We are really excited and she seems really excited too! We have a lot of work to do now and a lot of business planning and design planning and all that stuff I don’t understand and that is what Brittneeis perfect at so this is going to work out great! And we have Brenton working his magic on the website! I cant wait till that is ready!!

The month of July is going to be so busy and we have so many awesome pojects planned and I cant wait to finally start working hard and getting things done!!

On Saturday we went into town to the Cultural Heritage Center and looked at some really cool paintings and some tanzanite stones and took random pictures and just had a blast! We then went and found fabric to have some African dresses made!! I am soo excited for it to be done and then i can wear it to church!!! :)