TEA!

Today we went to Kericho and visited several widows. Kericho is known for Tea fields. There are a ton of tea fields. We drove by and saw a ton of people in the fields picking the tea leaves. It is a very mountainous area. We visited three widows today. We talked to them and they told us their stories. They are very sad because Widows here are despised and disrespected. They kept telling us that once their husbands died, they were no longer respected. Their familes don't help anymore, and a few of them lost respect from their own children. They are having to provide for their families and now be the mom and dad for their family. Their houses are just shacks...mud shacks with a grass roof. The custom for them to do is when they have visitors they prepare something for the visitors...because if the visitors leave the house without anything then they feel bad. So...every house we went to they made us Chai (because we are in the land of tea) and Maize or rice and beans. I have never had soooo much tea or chai before in my life! I don't like tea at all...I don't like any kind of hot drink...so I didn't like this but I had to drink it or they would be offended. Every where we went they offered us Chai...oh man...so much chai. Ha and then we got to walk through the tea fields. We took pictures in the tea field. We did a childrens program too. The kdis are so funny here. I am exhausted. We are headed off to a small village now outside of kericho. We will not have electiricity for three days. So...please keep us in your prayers.