Let the digging begin! Our team of 5 plus two kenyen workers dug out the base for the school office yesterday. Which means today my back is killing me! Imagine using a hoe to level out enough room for a school office with third world tools in the hot sun. That is what we were doing. But needless to say we got it done! (Yes my family members, that blonde girl in yellow did manual labor thank you very much). With the base done we need to lay the foundation and build the room. This is a very important project because without the office the school will not be licensed to run. We only have $1,000 dollars so far in our project fund and need $800 more!! Please if you can donate anything click in my link below so we can directly get the money to continue our project and continue to run the school at Rapha!
Today we spent all day painting the inside of the girls dormitory. I thought when we were going to paint, it would be easy because of the lovely tool, a paint roller. Well dear friends they do not have paint rollers in Kenya which means we painted with little paint brushes. Yet we did it and now the rooms are bright yellow and cheery. I will post final pictures once the girls are moved in and the curtains my mother and Penny spent hours sewing by hand. Tomorrow me and Sami will be moving in as well! I'm a little nervous to be living at the center because I will be without some of my normal "comforts" such as running water, toilets, and showers BUT I am very excited to be living with the kids. A lot of the kids don't want me to leave at night because they want me to sleep there. I know my relationships with the people and kids there are going to be much stronger which I am excited for.
Today it was raining so we had to stay inside after painting. Sami and I went to go play with the little boys and ended up having a dance party. The boys have so many great dance moves and we had a blast dancing around! Afterwards we played Simon says which was a great English teaching tool as well for the 5-10 year old boys. Every time someone didn't listen to Simon, they all jumped up and down and hugged me since I was the Simon and screamed with joy. It was a great great time that made me remember why I am here. To have all their little arms hugging me with huge smiles and giggles flowing was a little slice of heaven.
we love Rapha!
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