It's a rainy winter day...

Hello everyone! It's late Sunday afternoon here in Mombasa. Things have been going great. Yesterday was just a day to relax. Last night we all had dinner together at the hotel. I'm really enjoying the food! I've found that I LOVE yellow passion fruit. I've never even heard of it, but some of the ladies told me it's available in the US, it's just VERY expensive. They have EVERYTHING passion fruit here: juice, icecream, lip gloss! The staff put on a show for us after dinner. If you've never seen an African version of "Grease," you ought to...it's funny! A few of us took a taxi to a local grocery store to get a few things. I didn't need anything but went along for the ride. I was shocked to see how many American products they have over here.

This morning we walked to a local Christian church. We spent a good bit of time there considering it was their 7 year anniversary. Everyone was very welcoming. We did not sit as a group together but instead spread out to meet and talk with local people. EVERYONE was very nice. Before the sermon, Chris (our leader) asked us to get up and go stand in the back because so many people came for the anniversary service and there weren't enough chairs. It was amazing. I don't know how many hundreds of people were there. The children were out back having fun playing games, dancing, and getting their faces painted. They LOVE to take pictures and look at the picture on our digital cameras. I sat next to a girl named Daisy for a while. She was in town visiting and she lives in Nairobi. She's at the university there. She told me too look her up on facebook so we could be friends:) It started to rain while we were at church so another mission team let us ride on their bus so we didn't have to walk back.

After we ate lunch, we all broke into groups and prepared for tomorrow. We made bags for the kids with color sheets, crayons, balloons, and candy. The medical supplies has been sorted and packed, although we're STILL missing a suitcase that had medical supplies in it. (I forgot to mention that four of our bags didn't make it: three ministry bags and one personal bag...all have been found but one). We cut things out and traced shapes to use for crafts. I'm going to be on the medical team tomorrow.

Now that it's almost the evening, we will just relax, eat dinner and get some sleep because we will start our first day of work in the villages tomorrow. Everyone on our team is getting along great and I have made good friends. I will update again tomorrow!