Day #8

7:56 PM

So today we were taking the kids to this park thing that seemed really awesome at first. But more on that later. We agreed to bring lunch for everyone so our morning was spent running around town trying to find stuff for meat and cheese sandwiches, and had the coffee shop make us a few containers of potato salad. They’d never had either of those things before, so it was a new experience for them. Thanks to Jimmy, who has named himself our counselor, driver, friend, photographer, bodyguard, and future Eddie  Murphy, we have tons of pictures.



So back to the park. It had all these displays about global warming, showing what would happen if we didn’t straighten out. It seemed pretty strange seeing that in Africa, but hey! Every little bit helps. After we saw that we went to this huge field that had lots of animals in it. As we walked around, we saw different birth defects.  It was awful. Cows with three eyes, lots of leg defects. It was horrible seeing these poor creatures hobbling around. Everyone else thought  it was hilarious, we were pretty frustrated and just powered through it, and then the kids went on a little boat ride while students from a local school all asked to take pics with us.



One thing that takes some getting used to is how enamoured by our skin everyone is. They always want to stroke it, kiss it, smell it, it’s a little strange at first. And everyone apologizes for everything. We were getting burnt so we were putting on sunscreen, and Lillian kepy apologizing. I looked at her and said, ‘Did you make my skin white? Did you put the sun in the sky? Did you forget to put on sunscreen this morning?! You have nothing to be sorry about!’ bahh silliness.



After their boat ride, (Jenn went too), the kids went to play on the playground, and I had to bite my tongue and repress all my training not to have a heart attack when a bull with four foot horns started running through the middle of their soccer game. Danger!!!! Bah. After a bit of playing, all 31 of them piled back into the land cruiser. How, I shall never know.



So Jimmy is trying to set us up with his friend Paul, who seems okay with it since he kepy asking what we were doing tonight. I would just quickly reply ‘lala!’ (sleep). Oy. It's an ongoing thing here, everyone wants their best friend dating the new muzungus in town apparently.. lovely.

- Breezey