cute kids

Saturday afternoon...

A couple of months ago I started this discipleship thing with the five 9th grade girls from my school. Recently it has been more difficult because we have been so busy with soccer and birthday parties and other craziness. But, today we decided to finally get together. We took a few hours this afternoon and went and volunteered at New Life Home, one of the nearby orphanages. It was so great because when we first got there the toddlers (1 1/2-2 year olds) were playing outside. We got to play out there with them for about a hour (there were like 20 of them so it was crazy). Then we helped bring them all inside and feed them lunch, that was CRAZY. I had heard that they did not get as many volunteers of Saturday which is why I wanted to go today, and I am so glad we did. WOW...so many little mouths to feed. I was running back and forth between these two kids (Nolan and Crissy) trying to spoon it in as fast as I could. Of course they would get impatient and start using their hands, so it was fun to clean up. After lunch we took the 15 older toddlers and put them on "potties". OH my goodness, probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen. 15 little toilets with the cutest kids ever sitting on them totally naked. I wanted to take a picture, but I thought that might be inappropriate. They started getting impatient and would hop around with the toilet between their legs. I was dying laughing. One little girl, Esther, fell asleep in the middle of the craziness and almost fell of her toilet. OH wow...that was HILARIOUS! Then we put them to bed and went to help with the babies. Oh, they were so precious and adorable. I got to hold a little boy named Stewart. It is about the age of my niece Halle so I was pretending it was her. Wasn't quite the same, but he sure was cute. At about 1 we helped put the babies in their beds and then we headed home. It was so great to get to go and help. I think it was definately one of those times that helping encouraged us more than them.
I also had the privellage to go to New Life Home for a few hours with the sixth grade class earlier this week on Tuesday. That is what the pictures are from. Such cute kids...when I look at them and hold them I can't help but pray that God will bring loving parents for them.

Rwandan Drummers

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Rwandan Culture Evening

The really cool drummers...they got real excited when three white girls walked up to take their picture...big smiles!

Jen, Me and Daylan

My friend David trying to teach us some Krwandan...yea don't remember anything...oops!

David leading the dance

Enjoying the dancing :)

CRAZY DANCERS

One of my very good friends that I have made here is from Rwanda. He along with some of his friends have been working for a year to organize this Rwandan Culture Evening. The purpose of it was to just bring the Rwandans in Kenya together and also to make outsiders more aware of the cool and good things about Rwanda. We had a lot of fun listening to the music and watching the dancing. The drums were SO great!

International Food Fair

This weekend was the International Food Fair at school. There were a lot of different countries represented including: USA, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Korea, Germany, France, and who knows what else I am forgetting. It was so fun to get to enjoy food from other countries. I made the mistake of going to the Korean table first because they piled my plate with weird fishy things that scared me. But don't worry mom I did try it! And someone even brought chips and salsa. My favorite. Oh how I miss simples pleasures like salsa and cereal and dill pickles.

my little shadows (as some have begun to call them) such sweet girls

JC transferred to ISK last semester so it was so good to get to see her again. I miss that girl!

my girls...

An auction as a fund raiser for our new playground

Daylan with the Radkovic girls (one of my favorite families from the school)

FUN TIMES ON THE SLIP AND SLIDE ...

no I did not try it ;)

Coach in action...

"We are nothing without God!"

GO TEAM!!!

Pretending like I know what I am talking about! :)

PEP talk..Lets Go!

Season ends...

The girls had their last game yesterday. I have to admit that I am quite happy to have a little free time in my afternoons, for awhile at least, but I was sad for it to end. On Monday I was talking to the girls and said, "Tomorrow is our last day of practice, so we have to work hard." They were all like "NO WAY!" "Can we just keep practicing?" I felt like saying, hello you don't seem to care when you are here why do you want to keep playing? But then I realized it is about so much more to them. It is about being with their friends and being part of a team. I really had so much fun with the girls and learned a lot through this season. Of course I wish that we could have done better, but those are only details. The girls worked hard and they really did improve. It helps me to look forward to next year and how the team will continue to develop.
Our last game was very intense. Although we did not win they did tie the game. We hadn't scored since our very first game so the girls were very hungry to put one in the net. Unfortunately there was a silly hand ball in the box so ISK got a free kick and scored off of that. Besides that they did not have a good shot on goal the whole game. We controlled the ball the entire time and had lots of shots but could not get it in. AHHH! Finally Hwa Ni was just able to get her foot on it and it went in. You would have thought it was the World Cup the way the whole team freaked out and got so excited, to say nothning about the crowd that went CRAZY! It was just such a good game! I really had a lot of fun. We are going to have an end of the season party next weekend, that is really goig to be crazy. I sure have learn to love these girls so so so much! Thanks for being a part of me being here!

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My first visitor

On Thursday of last week one of my best friends from high school came to visit me in Nairobi. I have not seen Seth since we graduated from high school in PNG about five years ago. Needless to say we had a lot to catch up on. It was SO fun to get to show him around where I live and work. I SO wish that more of you could come and experience how great it is. I told him he had to write something on here about how great it is so that you all come and visit. But then just be warned that if you come you won't want to leave or you will REALLY want to come back, because that is how Seth felt being here. I think it was just so good for him to be reminded of what this enviroment is like again. It is so much the same as the way we grew up in PNG. Please keep Seth in your prayers as he travels on to Croatia. He will be spending the next three months there putting his skills to work on one of the new OM ships. Seth, thanks again for coming to visit. It was so much fun! I think that Betty the giraffe really misses you! :)

Seth's Visit

Meet Brooklyn Jeanne

My oldest sister Keisa Troyer had her third child yesterday. She is a healthy beautiful girl. 6lbs and 15 oz and 21 inches long. What a beautiful miracle. Keiser, Clinto, Bubu and G I wish so much I could be there with you all. Give her lots of kisses and boys...be gentle! :)

You are in my prayers Troyers! Love you so much!