Saturday 21 May 2011

Saturday 21 May 2011

The children were up early doing chores and getting ready to go to school, singing their songs and talking to each other.  Made the pot of coffee and enjoyed the background singing as I read my lesson for today.  It is really great just to sit and listen to the joyful music that they share with each other.  The others are still asleep and I am about ready for breakfast.  Today we are going to visit with Simon Njoroge, former minister of Njoro Parrish were we put our first water purification system in Kenya.

Breakfast was great an as always the tea is wonderful.  We had time to converse and talk about the trip today to Munyu to visit Simmon and his family.  Francis will be driving us today and it will be a great trip.  Francis works for the Tumaini Children Home and is really great with the children and staff.  The trip should be about 1.5 hours  and the roads are good except for the last 3 kilometers.

We are glad to have David go with us today.  David is a retired newspaper person that worked in Nairobi for 30+ years and has a great singing voice.  Nancy kept  David busy most of the trip learning new Swahili terms and singing songs.  David also loved Elvis Presley and did a great job singing his songs.  David with his singing sure made the trip seem short.  David was indeed a rafiki (friend).

We stopped in Nanamour at the off of K&G Expeditions, where we get the vans for transportation and arranged for another driver and we met Charles that would be driving the rest of the time.  He will meet us at Tumaini on Monday morning for departure to Juja and Nairobi.  Looked for okra seeds for Ben but did not find any.

The visit with Simmon  and Lydia in their home in Munyu was great.  The boys had grown so much and loved to play with the soccer ball that Jim and Mary Price brought to them.  We had tea then went across the road to the church to meet several groups that were having meeting at the church.  Simmon has a large parish with 15 churches with one being 40 kilometers away.  Lunch was served and after time for conversations we departed and headed back to Tumaini.  It took a long time to get the details worked out for the remainder of the trip at the K & G office then we were off to Nyeri.

The trip was great and dinner was waiting on us when we returned to the children’s home.  It seems like all we do is sleep, eat and work.  I believe be spend more time doing tea and meals than either sleeping or working. 

Another great day and on the way to the room Nancy and I stopped and listened to the children sing.  It is a pleasure to be among friends.

More later