Bittersweet Goodbye

I am writing this blog with mixed emotions today. It's been a busy and anxious week since I last wrote on Canada Day. As I mentioned in one of my previous blogs, there had been a number of 'incidents' as I called them in the Eastern part of Kenya with regards to small scale terrorist attacks. After much debate from both the students and our partners back in Canada (the University, the NGO were are associated with, parents), it was recognized that there was an unpredictable level of risk associated with the escalation of attacks in the Eastern part of Kenya. Therefore, the University decided to make immediate plans for us to travel back to Canada. 
I arrived home on Friday night safe but tired. 
I wanted to thank everyone for taking the time to read my blog and appreciate all of those who posted comments. 
I look forward to catching up with everyone and will say so long for now.

Sunset in Kenya

Canada Day in Kenya PLUS Pictures

Happy Canada Day!!!

We had one great day here yesterday. We invited many of our new friends and acquaintances to come and celebrate Canada’s 145^th birthday with us. We spent the morning making cookies, brownies, meatballs, fried rice, pizza, tomato salsa, mango salsa, and guacamole. It was pretty interesting watching people eat as many of them did not get that the salsas were for dipping nachos in, or that you could eat the meatballs all by themselves. We had some rather entertaining rounds of “pin the tail on the zebra,” and dodge ball, and the water balloon toss, three-legged race, yoga session, and Frisbee were all big hits too. The nuns were probably the funniest, and they really got in on all of the action.

It was great to see everyone smiling and having fun and for the Canadians it was a good reminder of how lucky we are to call Canada home. For those of you that follow the news, there have been a number of ‘incidents’ as we’ll call them in Kenya over the last week that really make you appreciate the safety of our country.

To finish our day off we made s’mores over our gas stove (the marshmallows we found were actually pretty good) and imagined that we were at home sitting around a campfire!

We have a busy week planned… our last two “Champs” sessions and a couple of school visits. Tuesday is officially our halfway point and we have booked another safari this weekend to celebrate. We are all really looking forward to getting away for a few days.

I will post pictures when I can.

Team Bununu all dressed up for Canada Day.

Sister Lilian with her maple leaf bandana.

Three-legged race.

Festus losing the water ballon toss.

Pin the tail on the zebra.

This is one of the stalls at the women's market where we buy all of our produce. So fresh, tasty, and cheap.