Kericho

Today we traveled to Kericho. It was about an 6 hour car ride....on Kenyan roads...which means it was filled with lots of pot holes and crazy drivers. We were able to see Zebras, Baboons, and Warthogs on the side of the road as we were driving. We pulled over to get close to the zebras and take pictures!!! I got like ten feet away from the zebra! it was awesome. It is a beautiful country. There are tons of hills, mountains, and valleys. We drove through the famous Rift Valley. When we arrived in Kericho we checked into our hotel, and then we drove to the church/school. We were given a tour of the school. It was soo funny when we first arrived in Kericho because all of the children and others kept staring at us because we were white and stuck out like a sore thumb. White people are known as Mzungus. We had several groups of little girls that would just stand there for like fifteen minutes just staring at us....they acted like they have never seen white people before, ha. I guess they don't see white people that often becuase it is further outside of Nairobi. When we got to the school a group of the students were practicing a song and dance. It was a traditional song and dance and they wore their traditional african costumes as well. It was really cool to watch them. We hope to get video of it later on this week. The kids here at the school were funny. Betsye and I were walking down the side of the building to the church and we turned around and had like ten kids following behind us...ha it was so funny and again they all just say "How are you?" because its all the english they have been taught when greeting someone. It stormed while we were at the school...it rained really hard and they said that was unusual for this area at this time of year because the rainy season is over. Tomorrow we are doing a program with the kids at the school and in the morning we are making some more home visits to widows.