Tyler's belated blog post (Feb, 4, 2010)

Well, this has been cool. I am a little tired right now but I think that’s because I only got about 5 hours of sleep last night. God is good and He totally made this place awesome!!

So a lot has gone on since I wrote last. Let’s see, the day after I wrote we hiked Mt. Kipkannur, which took about 3 and a half hours to get to the top. That was pretty difficult. It was weird though, because my legs weren’t really sore the next day, only my rear. So that was interesting. Mama Brian was our guide and she cut us bamboo walking sticks with her machete. Those were cool. The top was amazing and the walk was awesome and it was all bomb diggidy!!

That night we went to Nehemiah’s house which was also sweet! We found out that his mom works at the hospital and she found out that he had invited us to his house so she told my dad that we all should come. That was probably the most food I’ve had since I’ve been here. I went up 3 or 4 times to fill my plate. She was happy that I enjoyed it so much. My dad commented to her about her knowing so many wazungus, and she said that she invites them over so they can say thank you. I thought that was pretty cool. As the night wore on, my dad suggested going soon but Nehemiah thought it was too early to leave, so we stayed a little later. Nehemiah’s parents were able to afford his high school so he was leaving Monday morning, so Aaron and I visited him for a bit the next day to say bye.

Umm, and a lot more happened between there.

Last night there was something scratching and clawing and crawling somewhere through the ceiling. That kept us up pretty late. In the morning Hudson and Jude came over and walked into Aaron’s and my room. It was about 10:30 so we should have been up but we didn’t get very much sleep. They wanted us to play with them while they crawled all over us as they were explaining this. We explained to them why we were so tired and Aaron told them that we needed to eat breakfast anyway when we did get up. Jude thought that some part of that sentence was pretty hilarious. They then just sat on our beds and were going to wait till we got up. We finally convinced them to go home and have fun and we would play with them later. Those kids crack me up. I guess it was kind of a nice alarm clock.

Later today, we went to a Lutheran private school and chilled with them for a while. We had met the third grade teacher, Philemon, the day before who had asked us if we would visit. We joined the kids during phy-ed. That was pretty fun. First we started running laps, and then we played this game where we all had to run around all crazy like and then when Philemon yelled a number, we all had to quickly get in groups of that number. It was weird because Philemon told everyone that if they weren’t in a group, he would beat them with his stick till they found a group. We started and after the number was called, Philemon just chased kids around and wacked them in the rear till they got in a group. Everyone was having a great time though. It was pretty funny.

Then we played tug of war. While I was waiting for the class’s turn that I was with, a bunch of the kids were sitting around me holding my hand or just staring at me waiting for me to do something so they could break out in laughter at me. They all thought it was pretty fascinating that when they stretched my skin it turned white and when they let go it turned back to red. They also kept feeling my arms because I had hair on them and they thought that was pretty cool. After games we had chai and then we went to sing songs about God. The songs were pretty sweet, and the end of one of them consisted of us raising God higher and stomping Satan to the ground. This whole time one of the teachers was holding Hannah’s and Bethany’s cameras and was having a blast taking pictures. He asked me later if, when I went back to the states and then came back again, if I could hook him up with one. I told him that I didn’t know.

After school, Philemon took us through the center and introduced us to his mom and his wife. That was pretty cool. And we just got back from a movie night at Christina’s, and now I’m going to go to bed. I hope those things in the ceiling died or something. They can go down to the valley and live a long happy life there. Haha well goodnight everyone!! God bless!!!