Runnin' in the rain

This morning, we had our first Swahili lesson. Chris, our teacher, came and we studied for about an hour. We learned a lot, but it was really fast, and a little much for our first lesson. Swahili is much easier than the other languages we've tried to learn though, like spanish or french. It's quite easy, we just need a lot of practice. On Wednesday we have to give our testimony in Swahili, memorized. Telling our name, where we're from, what we are doing in Kenya, how long we will be here, and how old we are. Yikes! Chris will be bringing us 1st grade Swahili books tomorrow, and we will be having lessons everyday for an hour and a half. It should be fun! After our lesson, we went to town with one of the young girls that works for Grandma and Randy, Helen. Everyone looked at us like we were zoo animals, and wanted us to buy their things. Children came up to us asking for money, or asking if we would buy them shoes. One kid followed us for a long time, petting our arms, and asking "How are you?" Another child, probably about 3 years old, was sitting in a man's lap, and as we walked by, he reached out his hand toward us, and said in astonishment, "Mzungu" which means, white person, or strange, new thing. It's kind of funny to be such an odd concept. In town, we got little bananas, which I wish we had in America, because they're amazingly delicious, and sodas. After, we came home, and ate lunch. Then we started on one of our projects while we're here, coloring children lessons for churches around the area. We are coloring 12 books in English, and 12 in Swahili, each about 20 pages. It's definitely time consuming, it took us about 3 hours to finish just one. But we've got time, and it's only coloring, not like manual labor or something. We're having a wonderful time so far :)

In the middle of our coloring project we noticed that it was thundering and raining. We're talkin real rain. Like insanely hard fast rain and lots of it. So Danika grabbed my arm and we ran outside. David Kigwa looked out the office door smiling and laughing at us. Probably thinking that we are two crazy white girls running out in the rain like maniacs- its a fair enough assumption I suppose. We ran around the yard a little bit and sort of chased these two huge birds that make dinosaur noises. We were getting soaked and we were only out for probably about 2 minuets if that. We ran back inside and Helen laughed at us and explained that they never run out into the rain for fun.  We sat back down and started coloring-while half drenched- then Grandma came back from the store and said she saw us running around like crazy people.
Twas a good day :)