Kihonda Secondary

It was nice to meet up with our training group today because it was a relief to be able to understand and be understood. We are at Kihonda Secondary School for the next 2 months and have a classroom to ourselves to use. For lunch, a local woman brought homecooked food to our classroom and it was delicious. Before our community mapping project, we got an idea of the strong winds in the area as the dust was whipped up from the bare field outside the school. No wonder there is red dust everywhere; the dry groud is constantly being whipped up by the wind.

Our community mapping activity consisted of walking through Kihonda to each of our houses. The first one we actually stopped at was Jordon's and his family insisted that we come inside. As per custom, we were offered drinks (soda) and it was insisted that we stay (part of the reason it takes so long to get somewhere here). Turned out that Jordon's mama is a good friend of our teacher's mother - they grew up as neighbors. We also met Ezra's family with a tiny kitten (~1 month) and adorable little brother (Jr.), who was pushing a tire around for fun. At Veronica's, her sister served us some fresh juice she made from the fruit of their trees. Since we all wanted to get going to play some Frisbee, we didn't have time to come into my house. My little brother Oswald did come play with us though.

While playing, the sun was behind a cloud with crepuscular rays shining down on the surrounding mountains, a beautiful large tree, and our field...wish I had a picture.