Well we finished up with our part on the construction part of our mission trip today. Our group was digging a foundation for a new school at a place that sounds like E-Rear-Ree... not sure how it's spelled. So I basically spent most of the day getting lessons from the Kenyans in how to use a pick and shovel to dig a 3 foot deep trench around what will be the foundation for the school. Anyway we worked hand in hand with the parents of the children going to the current school. Pretty amazing to see a teacher trying to instruct 48 students in a room that is smaller than the classrooms our teachers at home teach in. It really puts things in perspective. Fortunately the people we were working with wanted to shut down early in the afternoon. That left plenty of time to play soccer (or football everywhere but America) with the kids at this school. So picture a bunch of Kenyan students ranging in age from 9 to 17 out in the middle of a field playing with a few out of place Mezungus (aka Swahili for white boy). I'm definitely not a soccer player at all, but for some reason these kids wanted to keep passing the ball my way. It was an awful performance on my part, but everyone had fun. Tomorrow we will wrap up with a farewell at the Endana schools. I expect to see lots of singing and dancing.
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