Monday at Home:
After school today I went to help plan the Wedding of Sammy Muttai and Eve (don’t know her last name). YES, I’m part of the village here so I get to help. The other women who are helping all said that I’m Kenyan now because I’m helping with the wedding. Kinda makes me feel special. Next Monday I’m told we will be sorting rice. Apparently the rice that is purchased isn’t totally cleaned up and we will do that by hand. Then we’ll be peeling potatoes and butchering chickens and a beef cow/steer. I was asked if I knew how to cut meat, I answered “I’ll peel potatoes.” LOL This wedding is on Feb 12 at 10am and then the party is at 1pm on the Legacy School grounds. Ann, Steve Muttai’s wife, told me that there will probably be about 1000 people there at the wedding. And it’s not like they are inviting all of these people. A wedding here in Kenya is a celebration of the union of two people that the entire village takes part in. Everyone celebrates, everyone eats, and everyone has a good time. Ann also told me that I’ll need to buy a suitable dress for the wedding. She said that I will look like a Kenyan, only I’ll be white. lol.
Alice and I walked home from Mary’s house and it was dark. There are no street lights here since it’s basically farm land, so walking home was a challenge of not falling down. It seems that whenever I go to Africa I fall down somewhere. And I fell on Saturday walking through the field where the cows graze in front of a bunch of little kids. Totally lame on my part, but it is becoming the norm for me when I’m in Africa. Once we got home I took my shoes off cause I have a blister on my baby toe. RATS.... Thank the good Lord for Mole Skin, right?
Tomorrow is a big day. I’m buying textbooks for the 7th grade class. The school doesn’t have any of the ones that need to be used, so I’ll pick them up. Hopefully I’ll find some books for the library as well.
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