Up Next....

The students have all returned to school. After hosting a total of 24 kids over the last 4 weeks the house now seems really quiet. But that won't last long... this weekend we are having our official House Opening Party and Thanksgiving Mass (this is a must in the Kenyan/Kikuyu culture when you have a new home) at the house!  So this means that we have a mass followed by a meal and celebration for about 150+ of our closest neighbors and friends.

This is quite the undertaking considering we do all of the cooking using charcoal and firewood.. But Kenyans have this party thing down to a science. About 10 of the ladies from our community will come on Friday to start cooking. We will be slaughtering a small bull and preparing over 100 lbs of meat, 75 lbs of rice, loads of potatoes, 40 lbs of wheat flour for chapati and the list continues! The nice thing is that many of the neighbors have offered to bring the vegetables and milk (for tea). We are renting/borrowing chairs, a tent, benches, pans, plates and cups. All of these will be collected on Friday by the donkey and cart that we are hiring-ha!. 

It should be an amazing celebration! I'll be sure to post pictures.

And once the party is over then I  return home to the US on Monday to spend the next couple of months catching up with family and friends!