School

Mumbo!
Harbi zenu?
We are great! We have finished up our first official week here!
Thursday and Friday we went to Uzuma School. They have ages 3 through 5. The school is through the Uzuma Church of Christ- which we attended on Sunday. I cannot believe this school. The teacher I helped with had ages 3 through 5- a total of 40 students to herself. There were no desk in the small room. There were not even enough pencils for each student to have one of their own. The teacher has to had write ALL worksheets for the students. That is math, language, and art that she hand writes herself! She says it takes a long time and her hand hurts but she has to do it for the students. She uses a stick off a tree as her pointer. The students know many songs and even. ones we know like Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes. We taught them a song about the months of the year and the song "If you are happy and you know it." We also showed the teacher how to use flash cards that we brought. She didn't know how to use them. She was so grateful for all the supplies we brought. She couldn't believe all the books, pencils, and paper. She really liked the book that has the different farm animals and you can touch what a lamb feels like or a chick. Thank you all who donated supplies- it was very much needed and was appreciated very much! We helped her write her lessons for next week. We wrote all the math up till Thursday for her. It made me appreciative of the technology in the States. I will no longer complain about making copies of worksheets! She was a great teacher because she has so little to work with but still teaches the students. The school hours are from 8 to 3 p.m. They have a morning break for porridge and then lunch.
Language learning is going good. We have found people to practice with. Chad and Landon are working on a very short sermon to give on Sunday at church. Both are nervous- please pray for them to do well. Chad has started talking in Swahili where ever we go! I can greet people and ask how they are!
We have medicine for our tummy aches now and they are doing better. Thank you for the prayers.
Next week we are going to help more with getting the surgical camps ready. I am going back to the school I went to on Monday. While I am there, the boys will be helping build a bathroom for the surgical camp. I will also be going back out with Margarent to visit more single mothers and to check on the old man.
Please pray for our health. Pray that we show God's love to all we meet. Please pray that we learn from everything we do. Please pray that God shows us wants He wants us to do in the future.
Life in Africa...
1. Bats fly over our apartment every evening. There is also a water bottle bird near our apartment. It sounds like water dripping out of a bottle when it sings.
2. My glasses have fogged up when leaving an air conditioned room and stepping outside.
3. People here do not like cold drinks. They are use to their drinks warm. Milk is in a box here and not put in the frig. Fruit goes bad very quickly here because it is organic.
4. At restraunts your ticket is very different. Drinks are put on a separate tab than your meal. So you have to add up the total cost of everything.
5. Many men wear a wrap (like a skirt) as bottoms instead of pants.
6. Electricity comes has started coming in and out. It was turned off all yesterday but came back on if the evening.
We love you all! We have enjoyed working with wonderful people who have taught us so many things. We are taking lots of pictures and can't wait to show you!
Blessings,
Chad and Whitney