time is flying

i'm sorry if my last blog gave anyone a bad impression of kenya. this place is incredible, but i'm not gonna sugar-coat anything and make it out to be paradise. stuff happens. just hopefully not to me! this past week has been fairly uneventful. i went in to the city center 3 times. i'm definitely not a fan of the hustle and bustle of the city. plus for the most part its fairly dirty and ugly. i'd rather be in the slums... i feel safer and more at home there. my favorite part of walking to work is the chorus of 'how are you' from all the little kids as we walk by. its so cute. as soon as they see a mzungu they start chanting/singing it. i don't think they even know what it means but they wait for us to acknowledge them or give them high fives and then they are so happy. sometimes we can hear little voices from a distance shouting 'how are you' and we can't even see them. but it turns into a domino effect among all the kids and there is this chanting coming from all around us and the valley below us. its so great.
anyways, school was good this week. we learned about some body parts. did a lot of math. finished the alphabet. gonna work on some more colors and addition tomorrow. the weather has still been rainy. so school has been muddy and all the kids are sick. unfortunately i picked up something and was in bed all of yesterday feeling terrible. but today i'm doing much better. a few of us were planning on going to an elephant orphanage and i was so excited, but was way to sick to go. but at least my sickness was only a flu bug.. there are a few people here who just found out they have typhoid and one guy has malaria (don't worry mom, i've been vaccinated). so i can't complain to much.
i think this may be my last week of teaching as the kids start exams soon. it's still pretty up in the air what i'm going to be doing my last week. unless mary needs some help with giving exams. i would love to be able to spend as much time as i can with those kids. they're just sooo great.
well, that's all for now. here's some pics.


me and majo and the kids


i'm not sure what this kids name is. we just call him 'chunky'.


muddy feet!


kennedy


the ngong hills