Busia: super awesome. We live with these wonderful people who live at the compound we were staying at. They use the compound for people who go to the Imprezza school-some of them are orphans mostly due to HIV/AIDS and others just didn’t have the means to get the school funds so they live here and go to this school.
Planted 300+ baby trees around one of the campuses. I felt like Avatar meets Fern Gully, I was helping them grow.
We taught some of the kids a the school-Kevin and I taught math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) it was so great I had so much joy just teaching them-they had a seriousness about learning that was really refreshing.
Imprezza was a 30-minute walk to the school in the hills/mountains-beautiful Kenyan village life. Definitely a good change from Nairobi.
We walked around to alota the huts praying for homes and families and it was extremely humbling. It was real poverty, a level I had never been exposed to. Literally people didn’t have food and weren’t gonna get it. People were sick, but chose to buy food over medicine. It was really hard to see the people who had nothing and for us to do nothing. We prayed-is that enough? I don’t think so.
One thing I am still really eeehhh about is how excited everyone is to see the mzungu. One little girl that we ended up teaching the next day, bowed when she saw me and shook my hand. I am not someone to be bowed down to. Her name was Bridgette and she was beautiful. Some kids saw WOW when they see us. Most kids just yell ‘mzungu how are you’ and are extremely joyous. One little boy smelled my hand after I shook his, not in a weird way but in a ‘woah I wonder how the mzungu smells’ way. It was cute but still strange. We are alien here, but admired by most.
Today is opening day kickoff for football. I am here and multiple times today I thought ‘woah I cant believe this is my life..’ but somehow I was tailgating in spirit..
