African time..........

We decided to go to Kisumu for Naw-Ruz. We were told that the holyday would begin at 10am. So we woke up at 6 in order to get ready and catch the matatu (taxi) to Kisumu because it can take between 2 and 3 hours to get there. Long story short we were the first ones at the holyday, for about 3 hours... People started trickling in and the program started around 1:30. African time.  Nevertheless we enjoyed it a lot and met many of the Baha'is. One girl gave us the advice that from now on we should just show up 3-4 hours after people tell us to.
Things have been going well in Usenge. We had many meetings and introductions with various people and are now cleared to work in the clinic nearby and with the local public health official on various projects in the area. We have also been helping out at a few of the ECDs, mainly playing with the kids. We have planned a geography lesson for tomorrow so we'll see how that goes. The kids love to introduce themselves to us and the way they do it is one child stands up and yells their name and then says if they are a girl or a boy. Example: MY NAME IS OLIVIA SHIRIN FIRDAWSI AND I AM A GIRL! then on to the next...
In the evenings we have computer lessons with Oti. He rides his bike to town every day to charge his laptop then I do typing lessons with him, Nura teaches him about word and excel and general computer literacy and then Naveed teaches him to become addicted to computer games. Lets just say that the lessons have been postponed for a few days and Naveed and Oti have used up all the game demos that came on his computer. He especially likes one where you have to run a bakery and bake cakes for customers.
We have decided that one day each weekend we will go to the Usenge Sunset Resort (don't be fooled by the name,..) to enjoy a cold drink and dinner and use their electricity to charge up all our electronics. They have a 6 page menu from which usually only 3 things are available: mutton, chicken or fish. Oh and chips. So we eat and kill their electricity several times and watch some soccer and then come home.
Naveed and Oti have planted some spinach in the yard, we're hoping we'll get to eat some before we leave. Today Oti and Naveed wanted to go to the internet cafe. Naveed decided he wanted to ride the bike, with Oti sitting behind him. Naveed rode to town ringing the bell on his bike and yelling 'amosi!' to everyone he saw. (Amosi means 'hello how are you?' in Luo, the local language). I'm pretty sure that sight has never been seen in Usenge before and many will not forget for a long time.
Orriti (good bye in Luo)