Church Ditcher

Yup that is what I am, a church ditcher just to sit on a Matatu for 8 hours only to see the older boys at school for about 30 minutes? In all honesty I do NOT regret any second of it. It was 100% worth it! I love these boys so much. Especially Harrison and Zachariah. They make me so happy I cannot help but to smile like a wild thing around them. We just have so much fun together. We really went there to drop Michael off because he has been sick in the hospital and is finally better. Thank the Lord, for reals. So every day I would ask Megan if it would be okay if we went with Baboo to take Michael to school with him. (I kind of told the boys I would come and drop him off with them even if it killed me.) He said yes, and she said yes. It was a GO. Wake up at 6:30 to be ready by 8 for the first of 6 matatu's of the day. We got to the boys school at 2 and were back on the Matatu coming home before 3. We have to be home by 6 because after that it get dark really fast and it is dangerous to be on the streets when it is dark. Here are some pictures of the day.

The boys and 5 girls that are from the boys and girls center

Zachariah and Harrison

Rosemary and Hairrson, they are 2 of 4 kids in there family.

This is how you might feel after 8 hours on a matatu.

Project Bodilisha Prado

      

Bodilisha is one of the boys here...he is SO cute. I love him. 

I remember one of the first days I was here I asked Megan if he was ever happy, and she said uhh...he has his moments. For reals this kid never looked happy he always seemed sad and like he had no friends.(okay thats a lie he has friends) Well it was time for a change. This is how Project Bodi started. I decided to be his friend and see him smile at least once a day, what ever it took I was down for the job. I would tickle him, chase him, push him in the swing, and scream his name when ever I saw him. When ever I see Bodi now I just look at him and he will smile. Talk about SUCCESS. About a week ago while I was pushing Phobian one of his friends in the swing some how he fell out and Bodi was helping me clean up his bloody back and then Bodi pulled out a small piece of paper from his pocket and he gave it to me so I unfolded it and inside it had My name, Kaeeeeeleei and Megans name, Meeajeeeeeen and there P.E. teachers name, Tomo writen on it. Then the other day I was coloring with the boys outside (one of there FAVORITE things to do, I swear)  and Bodi came up to me and gave me a picture and said its for you and it was a stick figure of me and him and his name written by my name, Keelee. SO CUTE. He is so precious I am glad I started Project Bodilisha Prado.

Pictures of my life

           

First picture in Kenya

before I even knew the boys and if we are 100% honest at this point I didn't even know if I liked them yet.

The boys favorite thing to do is throw up peace signs.

I love this song, 'father Abraham he had 7 sons, 7 sons had father Abraham.'

This is all the boys ever want to do is 'read book, kaleigh!'

Our plug and table that we cook on

 My super cute sunburn I got the 3rd day I was here (it was cloudy/over cast the first 2 days)

..this one is for you mom, my new colored lens I got for Christmas

 Bernard cutting the grass with this like shoe horn looking thing, that I fail at. (colored lens)

Another colored lens..and i love this picture

I just really like this picture for some reason

Papa-this kid is FOR REALS THE funniest little person I have ever meet in my life. He kills me every time and has such an attitude with the way he talks, i love it.

The boys really know how to dance and do it all the time.

A SUPER nasty picture but the older boys whom  I never even talked to wanted a picture with me before they went to school.

Teaching the younger boys hand clapping games.

 Baboo cutting hair for the older boys before they go to school, the next boy was crying I guess it hurts getting your head shaved?

I love these 3, the one on the right is a boy that lives on sight..like in a house on the center, the center rents out there extra houses that the staff does not use.

Meet Zachariah he is in the process of being adopted which breaks my poor little heart. He is just SO great. I love him he is so hilarious.

The girls that went to school with the boys, there was one more who did not want to be photographed...the one in the orange jacket is Michale, Harrison, and Peters older sister.

Legitimately he is my favorite, when I just said see ya like next week it killed me. Maybe a little tearage might have come from my eyes too. He asked me like 8 times to go with the girls to take him to school, but I just couldn't get myself to do it, and the girls were not coming back for a week.

This cute girl we gave one of the back packs my aunt made to her and she was SO excited about the stickers, she is just so cute.

 This is where I have spent my last 5 days sitting next to this boy with Megan, handing him tissue when ever he needs to go to the bathroom.

Hey Africa

                                                                               
OH it is lovely here, thank you for asking. For reals though there are not a ton of spiders and bugs, I thought it would have been something like camping with them all over the place but it is not. There is bats that live in the roof though, tonight I was walking back from the dinning hall and 2 bats flew in front of me and for reals scared me half to death and so I ran to the water where a boy was getting a drink and I told him LOOK there is a BAT! and then some dude came up and talked to me. hahaha poor kid I have no idea who he even was..he was probably thinking crazy muzungu. (which means white person)
So right now legit half of the boys or sick or act like they are sick. It is the saddest thing ever I just want to hold the boys so they know everything will be okay. I feel so helpless. When I first got here one of the boys named Abram was like constantly attacking me and by my side all the time and if he wasn't and I walked by him I would receive a nice punch to my arm and running around like a crazy with all the other boys. But today was totally different. I walked by him today and put my hand out to shake his (which I do to all the boys) and he just looked at me like he was about to cry which is so unlike him.
Later I was clipping Buddies nails because one of his nails broke and Abram was laying on the sink right behind me and after I was done I went up to him and asked him if he was okay and if he was sick but all he said was no. So I would point to the different areas of his body like his head, stomach, and throat asking if it hurt and all he said was No. So to me he was okay just having a bad day. So the I just sat by him rubbing his back and telling him a story that I know he would never understand. Eventually he crawled down and layed on the cement in the sun. (when the boys are tired they just pop down ANYWHERE and fall asleep.) Once all the boys left I went to the other side where he was cuz he was sitting on the counter by then and I asked him how he was doing and he just looked at me and I said, 'it looks like someone needs a hug' and I hugged him and when I let go he was bawling. Oh my goodness this kid could have killed me. It was the saddest thing EVER. You know I am a sucker for tears and when I see some who is sick or in pain that is usually fine it kills me even more. He just looked like a weeping willow then another boy came up and said that the on site nurse was asking for him and he needed to go to her. So I gave him another hug and sent him on his way.
I hope he is good by tomorrow. I have to have someone to hang out with because my 3 main squeezes are leaving me for school tomorrow. And Megan had the guts to break it to me that one of my favorites is in the process of being adopted...which also kills me. I have been thinking about it all day long, that these boys are like brothers and all they have is each other and they stick up for each other like crazy if one is being picked on. So if I was in this situation would I want to be taken away from my brothers to have a stable life or remain in the center where all of my brothers are. To me it is a very hard question and I have no idea what the answer would be.