Saturday, February 19, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Today was crazy!  Kelsey, Abigail and I went to Queens again this morning and spent a couple hours praying.  We then had lunch back at the school and taught the kids the “Banana” song.  It was a little difficult for them to learn, but they still like it.  Shortly after that the team took us to Mbayani to see some Care Centers they needed to check on and that Kelsey and I had not seen before.  Mbayani ended up being on the other side of Prayer Mountain, so it took us about a half hour to get there.  We walked up hill and down hill, up rocky hills and down rocky hills, up muddy hills and down muddy hills to see the three centers.  Only two of the three centers were open but they both had about 40 kids with only one teacher.  It was nice seeing some other centers, but the team completely wore us out.  It was a hot day and we walked for two and half hours straight.  Toward the end of our journey, the team wanted us to climb this rocky mountain; Kelsey and I were SO exhausted, we laughed!  We thought they were joking, but to our horror, they weren’t!  They explained that it was a short cut and that our house was at the top.  Honestly, if they had not told me our house was at the top, I probably would not have climbed it.  After multiple threats to the team of what I was going to do to them if they were lying where muttered as we climbed the mountain, we eventually made it to the top.  Thankfully, for all of us, they were not lying and we made it home; sweaty, thirsty, and exhausted, but we made it home.  After drinking a TON of water and taking a nice cold shower, we both felt better.  It was quite a day! 

I was too focus on where I was walking to think about taking pictures, but Kelsey took some great ones:



 Some little boys playing.

 The mud between the houses was questionable.

 The children at one of the Centers.

 Throughout our journey we crossed three or four bridges. 
This is the one I hated the most, I could see the river through the slats and as we crossed it shook!

The view from one of the bridges we crossed.

The mountain we had to climb to get home.
(The picture does not do the height or steepness justice!)

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