chinai (or, thursday)

so things here have been going really well. i'm not sure if anyone has explained our living situation, so i'll go ahead and do that (because it's really, REALLY nice). We each are sharing a room with just one other person and each room has its own bathroom! we also have a kitchen and a living room and a dining room... all decorated very african-esque. It's really pretty neat, i think we've all taken pictures, maybe we'll post some up sometime.

We eat breakfast here together everyday and then we've been going to a bible study that meets at 7.30. we've been looking at psalm 65 it's been a perfect way to start the day here. it just reiterates the fact that we should be concentrating on jesus always... which is always a great thing to hear but for me it always sticks better in the morning, so that has been pretty perfect.

after bible study we started setting up for games. i helped sara with musical chairs and duck duck goose. we tried to play soccer with the older kids but they got kind of bored with it so we played a game called moon man. the kids really love duck duck goose! when we played musical chairs the kids kept singing along to the songs, and when we stopped the music the just kept singing and walking around the chairs! it was adorable and precious! the kids are really great - they're so sweet and beautiful and just really amazing.

after games sara and i went to start cooking meals for when the home office visits in a few weeks (they're going to freeze all the meals) we made breakfast casserole, just like my mom makes back home. :) i cooked the sausage (it was not much fun, but i did it so i may have been a little proud of myself!)

so after we finished the casseroles and had them in the freezer and we came back to the guest house and started getting ready for dinner. dinner is everyday at 5.30, they're kind of sticklers with time here. (i thought it was pretty weird, just cause i've heard so much about african time being really relaxed, it is definitely not like that here... if you're 5 minutes late you feel horrible because the mothers are so polite, they won't start eating without you!) anyway, for dinner we had scrambled eggs, greens, and N'shima. it was actually really good! the eggs were great, the greens were good, and the N'shima was hard to eat as always. I think michael explained it a little bit... i'll explain it a little more :P it's SO hard to eat... and it's SO filling. but the kids eat huge amounts of it so fast! i don't know how they do it... i've tried, and i just can't. it's kind of like the rice in sushi, except all gelled together and really thick. it doesn't really taste like anything though. anyway, so that's my take on dinner :)

after dinner was a lot of fun, we came back here to the house and played boggle. none of us were too good at it, but i love games so i loved it!

so that was our day yesterday :)

oh, and a quick update on the boys work... Todd and Michael worked on the playground the whole day again yesterday :) it's now anchored down to the ground and they have a ladder! they're such manly men :)


love you all!