Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles

Friday morning at the school began like we believe every day begins at The Glorious Academy - devotional time in the church and then porridge and play time in the play yard.  The play yard is the land our church helped purchase and is the future building site for the orphanage.

This morning we brought three bottles of bubbles to play with the kids - there is no way to describe the pure excitement and joy...giggles and squeals...laughter and so much fun!  The kids all came up to us and said "Teacher...and me, and me" asking if they could blow bubbles.  We had to tell them to blow slowly, slowly...pole, pole (in Swahili..."pol-ee, pol-ee").  It was amazing to see such pure joy - we are now wishing we brought more with us!

We had a chance to teach the students again - Amy was teaching in Class 2 - she taught maths (and yes, they add an s on the end), swahili and english.  They wanted to skip lunch and have her teach science!  The children are all so incredibly eager ot learn.  Melissa was taking pictures of each child with their name on a badge so we can take their photos back and match them up with pen pals in the United States.  Lee and Sandi were taught Swahili in Class 1.  They were in the advanced Swahili class - learning grammer and how to change words for plurals.  Kevin and Tanya taught Class 3 (there are 8-12 year olds in the class).  One thing we are learning is that 8 year old kids are the same all over the world (they reminded us very much of our 8 year old son, Arik!!)  We taught math and science and were amazed at the children.  They love to learn - Kevin taught about the parts of a tree and what we use trees for. 

This afternoon our amazing adventure will continue - Abu (the youth pastor here) asked Kevin to speak at a youth conference he is coordinating in Eldoret today and Saturday.  He is expecting 300 youth from all of the Baptist churches around the Eldoret area.  Kevin will be speaking for 2 hours this afternoon and teaching a class on Evangelism - all of the MAD4Christ youth in Kevin's youth group at home will recognize that Kevin has been talking to them about Evangelism for the past several months...isn't it amazing how God works all of this out!  Kevin had no idea he'd be asked to teach youth at a conference...but what an amazing opportunity!  We are teasing Kevin that he will now be an international youth speaker!!

Thank you all for your continued prayers!  God is good and we are so happy to be here, we are welcomed by the most amazing people with beautiful hearts and spirits who show the love of God to everyone they meet!