Cultivating Creativity

The Kenya Diaries (vol. 16)

July 2, 2006

This morning it was very difficult for everyone to get up for 7:00 Mass, but we managed without being late! After Mass we had banana pancakes, fried ugali with cut up hot dog pieces. The ugali and hot dogs together tasted like corn dogs. Interesting.


After breakfast Andy and Philip went out to the soccer field to play a game with some of the boys. Kevin, Ania and I started on Ania's birthday pinata. Lucia sat and watched. I decided to make a giraffe.


Lucia said this: I sat and watched while Mama, Kevin and  Ania made a giraffe pinata. Mama used two oatmeal boxes, one cookie box, one empty foil tube, a Cheerios box and four toilet paper rolls to make it. She taped them all together and it looked like a giraffe. Watching was fun!










When we finished taping the boxes together, it looked pretty neat. We still have to paper mache it, and then paint it. It stands 1 1/2 feet tall.

Note to self: This is not how a pinata is made. What I ended up with was virtually indestructable.

When Andy and Philip came home from the soccer field we walked to the convent for lunch.  We had pork, mashed potatoes and gravy and ugali. It was very good! Two little boys followed us there, and the sisters invited them in to eat as well. Afterward, while the adults sat around the table visiting, the little ones went outside to play.












Philip said this: The little boys were bothering us so we made up a game called "jail."  I put them in jail and told them they had to stay. Me and Ania were the jail keepers and Lucia was the guard. She was a good guard. The boys couldn't understand English, so they didn't even know they were in jail, and we couldn't understand Swahili, so we had no clue what they were trying to say. But it ended up being a lot of fun anyway.

On our way home later this evening, we passed two men carrying hay bales on their bicycle. Talk about versatility!

We had cheese omelettes, toast and fresh pineapple for supper.

Thank you, Jesus for yet another blessed day in Kenya. Amina.