A quick hello!

Hi!

Nothing new to report just wanted to say hello!
My class was crazy today! I think they had way to much sugar yesterday from a birthday party for one of the little girls, which was a very interesting experience.  I wasn't sure what was going on the whole time, I just kind of followed what I Wwas motioned to do. I was told to sit on a chair in the from of the larger room with Joan, the birthday girl, and pick 5 of my other children to stand up also. A cake was made by her grandmother and then she sat in a chair with me in the front of the room and fed me a piece of cake first, "since I'm her mwalimu (teacher), then I had to feed her a piece, and then each of the 5 "birthday elves?" as I labeled them. Then everyone sang swahili songs and she shouted that she was "4 years old 4 years old!"  Needless to say it was very fun and interesting, unlike any birthday that I've ever attended!
So today the children were very energetic, but we managed to write "water" or "maji" in their exercise books and color pictures I made of fruit. The theme for the week in English and Swahili is food.
This afternoon I'm going to Immuma, the orphanage to work with a young girl Subira, age 13, on her English and hang out with her for the afternoon. I've met her a couple of times when I've visited Immuma and we've really taken to one another. She's very shy and quiet, she lives with one sister, no parents, and often has a lot of responsibility cooking and caring for the other orphans, so she doesn't often get one or one attention or time to just have fun.


Tomorrow I'm going to the clinic for disabled children, so excited! I will write more then!
Still very hot here and the temperature is rising!
Love and miss!
Jacqi