Guacamole Madness

Okay, so i tried to do something nice for the class 8 kids at juvenile kids, so i thought i'd have them make guacamole. everything went pretty well at first. they were all chopping up the tomatoes and avocados and onions. then before they ate, i gave them this speech about how much i enjoyed working with them and the importance of surrounding yourself with positive people when they return home, blah, blah. anyway, then i showed them how we eat the guac on the crisps. we didn't have any plates so i reasoned that they could just dip the crisps into the big bowl of guac. I HAVE NEVER SEEN FOOD DISAPPEAR THIS FAST, EVER!!! as soon as i gave them the chips they all hoarded around the bowl and started sticking their entire hand into the guac and crisps. it was nuts and everything was gone in about 2 minutes. lovely.

saturday i made zuppa toscana (the olive garden soup) for popo, emma, eric, ken, and julius at popo's house. and we made chapati too. it was pretty cool b/c we made so much soup that we were able to pass it out to lots of the neighbors. i was a bit bummed that emma and ken refused to even have one taste of it. i tried to kid them saying, "i've eaten your food for the last 5 months and you won't even taste some of mine." but they refused, so whatev i guess.

yesterday i finished what i hope will be the end of blood tests at the hospital. while waiting for the results, i went to Java ( the american coffee place) and ate a bagel (heavenly), read my bible, and journaled. it was heavenly. i really needed some good quite God time, but sometimes it's hard to do that at church here. the service is so long and partly in swahili. plus, things start to really irritate you. like last week, the head teacher of the school got up at church to talk about the importance of education. then proceeded to say that if you don't send your kids to school you're going to hell....um, what the heck???? that is so not biblical. so i have to tune some of these things out although not all churches are like this.

by the way mom, the letters have arrived...have to go pick them up from the post office right now. just in time...the kids are leaving juvenile on wednesday.