My tooth and other things

Yesterday I went to a really beautiful waterfall and we got to jump off of a 25 foot cliff and when I hit the water my jaw smacked shut and I chipped off about a quarter of the outside corner of my front right tooth. It didn't hurt when it happened and it still doesn't hurt much, but it does look ugly. I'm hoping to have it at least temporarily fixed on Wednesday. Once again, this computer isn't working for picture uploading, but as soon as I find one that does...!

School has been going really well for the past few weeks. It is always slow work teaching young kids, but I do think I'm seeing progress. This past week we started to teach colors and on Tuesday we dyed their porridge green which they really liked! We also played the game 'red light-green light' which they now love, but luckily they haven't yet figured out that its a race; the casualties will be high when they do- they are all pretty competitive.

This weekend is a 5-day weekend (which is why I wasn't at school yesterday) and has been nice and relaxing so far apart from the tooth drama. Tomorrow I'm hoping to go to Boma orphanage for the day with my friend Sophie. Boma is a very poor orphanage with around 70 kids who live there. Quite a few of them were abandoned because of learning or physical disabilities. The conditions are quite bad and there isn't a lot of supervision of the kids. They don't have many beds and 6-8 kids usually share just one. A lot of the volunteers who aren't assigned to the Boma project still go there some days to help out. While I was in Nairobi, a group from the house went and cleaned and painted all the dormitories, donated new mattresses, and put up mosquito nets on all the beds. Boma was a project that Zak and Hayden helped out with a lot, and so at Hayden's funeral the family asked for donations for Boma rather than flowers. A friend of mine, Aaron, who is from Seattle but living here for a year, is doing a project to help Mama Lucy (the head of the orphanage) get out of debt and become more fiscally responsible, and he is handling all the money from Hayden's friends and family.

Abby