You may recall me telling you about “plans” here in Kenya, if not you can read about it here. Yesterday we had “planned” to pick up 3 boys in Tala from their mid-term break. They said it would most likely be around 10am. Ok, we stayed at home and waited…and waited and waited. We called C4KK to see if anyone there had heard from the boys, nope. So we ended up having a surprise Sabbath. By the end of the day the matron (Ann) said most likely the school had decided to change the mid-term release date to today (Friday). But we received no phone call from either students or administration. The thought for me was if there had been an accident it was highly unlikely that all three boys would not be able to call, so we continued to wait.
I didn’t open my computer up the entire day…I take that back, I did open it so we could watch The Kings Speech (DVD player is broken). We read (I finished book #2 of The Hunger Games trilogy), talked and basically never stepped outside all day!
Today we headed into Tala around 10am and would pick up the boys if they were there and if not they’d have to take a matatu (public transport). Went into Sunny Lucky to pick up some rice and spaghetti (Ann needed more of these items because all the secondary kids are here now, meaning 8 additional mouths to feed for a few days) and just as we were about to leave, who walks up but the 3 boys. They said the school decided to take their pre-mid-term exams on Wednesday and Thursday (instead of Tuesday and Wednesday) making it necessary for the kids to leave for mid-term Friday not Thursday as planned.
Kids are all now safely at home and it sounds like a youth group out there! It’s fun listening to them all discuss grades, classes, teachers, etc. just like a family should!