Things I have Learned

---Little birds can have really loud scary cries
---Mission Trips are awesome, if you haven't been on one. "Just do it!"
---Stoney Tanagawisa (coca cola product) is Very good to drink! Better even than champagne (oh well if you imagine hard enough)
--- You can take a goat to water here, but if it drinks it, it will probably be sick.
--Internet cafes are the place locals come to ask Americans for grant money,, Have been approached twice, once from a minister supporting a school, and once from couple of guys developing a rural well site, and a female circumcision elimination program... Is it me? Is it the camera.... hmmmm how do they know I am not from here....
--Those weren't fireworks we heard
--Even though you are petrified to try and teach a game, and play games with 100 kids (some speak english, some don't) if you jump in and give it a try, it works!!! or rather GOD WORKS.
--OK, that wasn't a mouse
--A ward of HIV/AIDS patients in a poverty hospital,,, is more than you can take,,,
--HIV/AIDS kids are in our mission school..
--We must DO SOMETHING about HIV/AIDS.
--Where are the "men"? you see the women carrying bundles of sticks are their backs, bananas, very heavy,, walking.
--100 kids singing "Jesus loves Me" together or dancing to one of their songs is Heaven on Earth.
--Coffee is amazing in Kenya.. could be the beans, or could be sleeping under a mosquito net, with a wierd bathroom, and a shower that shoots out into the floor of the bathroom.
-- A 120V little printer from Kodak is one of the few modern appliances that I have that doesn't auto switch to 240v... OOPS so whats a little smoke!!!! (don't say it... I know... thought you were an engr)
--I will NOT "use" the "hole in the floor"
--Even tho the new Christian music is great, the old classics bring the "world" together... we must keep them.
--Seeing as mortuary with a "common grave"(pit actually) on a hospital site is ..more than you can sleep with. (seeing a paper hanging in the materinity ward with death certificate for new baby and instructions to bury in common grave... is well you can imagine.
--Seeing kids running down a dirt path to get to bible school, Having them smile and shake hands is awesome
--Walking back to your room at the end of a long school and work day, though mud, rocks, around an open sewer, past drug dealers and others, being stared at, and trying to not stare back. ..and seeing a young girl, whom you remember from bible school--and that remembers you come out from a shack,, run to you and shake your hand and smile.... Priceless.
--throwing frisbees in a chapel is cool
--Watching a 70 year old Kenyan pastor do the Hokey Pokey is cool.
********** And these wonderful people are thanking us?????***************