Aaron's Feb 11, blog

Yesterday was an awesome day! The school that we have been helping at for the past week and a half had a tournament with another private school. They had a girl’s soccer game and then a boy’s soccer game. We lost both games but it was fun. When someone scored the rest of the teams school would all start screaming and jumping. It reminded me of like a professional football game or something.

I loved hanging out with the kids who weren’t playing. It looked really funny because on the hill that we were sitting there would be one of us wazungus sitting down with ten other Kenyans sitting on top of us. They found it really funny how much I could “change my face”, they thought that it was amazing that my tongue could turn all the way around in my mouth too. They all tried to copy me and got a kick out of it… and people say I know too many useless skills. 

We went to the school today they told us that they were taking a day off to rest because all the teachers were tired from the game. So we just hung around and played with the kids who were done with their school work until the day was over.
Tonight we had a party for Kristen’s 26th birthday. Kristin is a fourth year medical student visiting here for a month from Wisconsin. Hudson and I made some oatmeal muffins for the party… but we didn’t get to bring them because they burned :P. Tomorrow we are getting up early in the morning to teach the kids at the school a Bible lesson before they start. We decided to do a skit on the watchman in Ezekiel. After that we will be going to the children’s home to work on our painting project. We’ll finish the project sometime next week. We are planning to spend the night at the orphanage so we can finish painting the walls white and finish painting the picture of the world.

I really love all the things that God is doing in and through me, and I love the attitude of the people here. They care for others usually more then they care about themselves. Yesterday I saw a girl (Shannon) who I met probably two Mondays ago. She was in the O.R. when I met her and then again yesterday. She saw me and noticed that I didn’t have my brace on so she kind of waved me down and then asked me about it and was concerned about me, and then she was happy for me that it was mostly better. I then asked her about her foot which she had something growing on it that she had scraped off when I first met her. She told me it was fine and that it was getting better, then she took off the gauze to show me and she had a huge hole on her ankle like 5 by 3 inches! It was down to almost her bone and she had no problem with it. It’s amazing to think of the kind of things we complain of in America.