New Places and New faces

I have moved placements from the school in the massai land to an orphanage called progressive not far from down town Nairobi. The founder and mother of the orphanage is named Sally. She has an amazing story of hard work and determination. She states often that you do what you can with what you have. Improvisation is one of the most important things I am learning here and what Sally is trying to instill into the children at the orphanage. 
Here are some pictures of the orphanage. 

The children have created some beautiful pieces of art that they are hoping to sell to raise money for the orphanage. Sally is always looking for volunteers who can teach the kids any skill or art. So today I brought my loom and began to weave while the children were taking examinations planning on creating something to show them that they could make. During their first break the children crowded around me, filling the kitchen, lining up, and jostling for who got to weave

the next row. It was very rewarding to see the smiles and joy something so simple can bring to these children.

 View of the city from the back of the orphanage. Sally wants to get a cow so that the children have milk.

 This is a river that flows behind the orphanage. The children must walk down to it and carry up buckets of water, for hand and clothes washing, flushing the toilet, etc. You can imagine that it is a pretty long trek fo little arms with a ful bucket of water.

 These girls are playing a game with plastic cups from the trash and a "ball." the ball is homemade with great innovation. It is dirt packed into a plastic bag and then wound tightly! Very cool.

Hi, everyone in America. I am in Kenya in a small town called Kajiado, using the internet café. I am not sure I can upload my pictures but I am going to try. I am working in Iltareto, a primary school with ages from 2-16 years old. The children are fun to work with and very interested in me and my long hair. We came into town today to buy some dishes for the teachers because when lunch is served at the school some of the teachers have to wait for spoons and bowls to be used in order to eat.

                The children pay about $100 a year to attend the school. Some of the families cannot afford to pay to send their children to the school. It would be amazing if we could give a child or two a scholarship. Education is very important and would be one of the greatest gifts you could give one of these children. There are many older children in class 8 who have large ambitions of being doctors and policemen.  At the end of class 8 the students take a standard national test written in English. The scores they make will determine what high school they can attend. It costs about $500 to attend high school for a year. I have asked the head of the school to choose 2 high achieving students with a need and give me profiles of each student so that if we raise enough money we can sponsor them with a year of high school.    

                 Above I have stated my long term plans. I would also like to place permanent pencil sharpeners in each room. I need your help with this! Please click on the go fund me now and donate to help make one of these children very happy. Even $5 helps a lot.  Thank you for your prayers and your help.

                 I am learning so much over here that is hard to express in words. Most importantly,

all of the stuff in the world is just stuff that’s it. The important things in life are not how pretty our car looks or how easy it is to drive on the street. The most important things in this life are the people that we love.

                 All of the children from my Kenyan school say Supa!

The next blog I post I am hoping will be longer please understand I have very limited internet and electricity if you have a specific question pleas text me if you have my number or ask on here. I am working on getting more internet access.

Travel Plans

For those wondering about where my plane travels are taking me.

I leave at 6:35 am from Denver à Detroit, MI  à Chicago, ILà Amsterdam, Netherlands à Nairobi, Kenya- Arriving at my destination at 8:10 pm Sunday June 1^st 2014

For those of you who know me well you know that I love to fly. One of my dreams is to learn to fly and do some of the things the blue angels do if not be a blue angel myself. I am going to love being on a plane for an extended period of time. However, I may miss some of the view due to a lack of sleep. Lol.

I am so excited to be going on the adventure of a life time. I have had well… a lot of those moments when I think why am I leaving my comfortable life to go to Kenya for six weeks? Then I remind myself of who I am and what I stand for. I am someone who longs for adventure and strives for the impossible. I am going on this trip to challenge myself to step out of my comfort zone and reach for the impossible. But more than the challenge and adventure of an African safari I am here to fight for children of every culture. Children have rights that need to be protected and observed in every culture across the world. This is what I am fighting for the rights of the children of Kenya. But for more personal reasons what could bring more fulfillment then to bring smiles to children while fulfilling my dream of traveling around the world. 

6 hours and counting

Leaving today! nervous and excited to be leaving for Kenya. I hope to be able to post pictures and give you all a glimpse into my volunteer trip. Set up this blog just for you my friends and family who want to keep in touch. Ok Awsome Sauce! Talk to you when I can ummm let's see maybe I should look at my itinerary and find out where I am laying over so you can track me like santa claus.
ok back to getting ready catch you later.