Recent activities

This is the compound where we stay.. The building on the right is the dorm area wHere I sleep. The other buildings are where Joshua's family lives.

This is the games area where the kids from Pathfinders play. They have a soccer field and a basketball court here. The cows and sheep also hangout in this area... Not the cleanest for kids to be playing in.

Next to the school there is a water filter factory. The filters are made out of a combination of sawdust and clay. I made two filters in the time it took one of the workers to make 5. I guess filter making is not in my future. It was fun to make though. Each filter gets a serial number and the date it was made. Each lasts for about 4 years and they save a lot of people from getting sick from the water.

This is Manu and he is Joshua's youngest kid. He is two years old and just walks around hitting the dogs and playing with a soccer ball all day. He is so cute even when he is having a fit and throws himself on the ground.

These are some kids who were playing after school and of course they wanted some pictures. They LOVE getting their pictures taken.

The other day Joshua had me go tour a girls high school so I could get some ideas of what they were like. The buildings on the right are some  of the class rooms and the building in the back is the kitchen. To the left is a big soccer field. This school has won a couple of trophies in soccer which is very exciting for them. The principle has them all in her office. I got a lot of ideas for the design of JOshua's high school from here because I had no idea what I was going to do before.

These are the other volunteer who are here too. On the left is Lindsey and the right is Dan. Lindsey has worked with Village Volunteers a lot and also with Joshua. She has been showing me the ropes around here. Dan had been here for about  a month and he was teaching juggling and knot tying to the kids. This morning he left to go to Masi mara for a week before he heads back to the states.

On Sunday this Kenyan Dennis wanted to take Dan and I on a walk to see some cool rocks. He said it wasn't far, but it was pretty far for me. I was boiling because it was so hot and it took us about an hour and a half to get to the rocks. This is what the roads are like around here. I don't understand how the cars can drive on them, but they do.

Here is Dennis and I on top of one of the rocks. The view was better from my right, but the person who took the picture didn't capture it.

Here are Dan and Dennis sitting on the "awesome" rocks

More kids going crazy for getting their pictures taken.

While we were walking back from the rocks a bunch of people wanted their picture taken. They all just ask to have it taken as soon as they see a mazungu "white person". Everywhere I go they scream mazungu like I didn't know i was white. haha

This is just some of what I see everyday

A nice sunset two nights ago. The clouds were gorgeous. My picture doesn't even do it justice.

Here is a little friend that I found before I was going to bed. I tried to kill it but it was way to fast. Last night it fell into one of my bags when I tried to kill it on the ceiling...

Yesterday Lindsey and I made basketball nets out of old maize bags so the kids could play basketball. Yesterday be had them playing with a soccer ball, but we are in Kitale today trying to find some basketballs so they can really play.

I just thought you should see how close the animals are to the basketball court.