Tourist time

Hello everyone-

Just to catch everyone up to speed, we left the Village and are now doing a little bit of touring before coming home. We are currently at the coast, Mombasa, for the week.

To end our time in the village, we did not have to teach the youth at church but we did have to sing in front of the whole congregation. We choose the song, Jesus Loves me and failed miserably... the whole church laughed at our efforts because we did so bad and couldnt stop laughing through the whole thing. I think it is safe to say that they wont ask visitors to "bless" the church with singing after our preformance.

We did a second health day where Laura and I taught about the importance of breast self examinations, not feeding babies breast milk when the mother is HIV positive, taught basic CPR, bandaging of wounds, and the hemlich manuver for choking. I think that it went well.

On our last day in the Village, Vivian decided to hand over a package of rat poisening that she had bought to use to commit suicide with. Laura and I talked with her about it and then told Dan about it so that he could talk to her a little more indepth about it as well. He had a good conversation with her because a lot of her stress is from her living situation which Dan is familiar with, since it is his family that Vivian is staying with. Vivian was upset that Laura and I told Dan about the rat poisening but then we explained that we needed to make sure that she was safe because we cared about her. I also asked if she had a good conversation with Dan to which she replied that she did and asked her if it was all in all a good thing that we told him and she said yes... so we ended it all on good terms.

Once we made it back to Nairobi, we went to the giraffe center and fed and kissed some giraffes, we also went to the animal orphanage and saw some baby elephants. The next day we went to an ostrich resort and got to ride a real ostrich!!! It was so bizarre, but really fun!

I am a bit distracted as I am watching Germany vs. Uraguay play the third place game in the world cup. I think I will go for now but I will be back in the states before you know it!

With love,
Christy