Last week of school....and I'm campsick

I now only have 4 days left with my babies!!! Friday is gonna be really bad....its so heartbreaking thinking I'll probably never see any of them again :(

We're doing fun artsy projects every day this week. Its hard to do that stuff in a big group unless I want it to take up the whole class-time, but since my kids are brilliant, they don't need to learn anymore so we're just having fun this week!

I have a lot of plans for the next month because I'll be free to travel whenever I want. I'm hoping to go next week to our house-guard, Zach's, Massai village for a few days. It will definitely be an experience. For those of you who don't know much about the Massai culture, if you look at any National Geographic about Africa you will probably see some pictures-they wear very bright red and purple and blue pieces of cloth and a lot of beads-they have the stretched ear-lobes with beaded earrings hanging through them-and the kids faces are often covered with flies. Some of the kids get their faces branded with a horse-shoe-shaped brand so that the flies are attracted to those wounds and not their eyes (flies in the eyes can easily carry diseases that will blind them). They live in family villages in huts made out of cow dung...apparently smells pretty bad. Zach's father has three wives and so there are going to be a ton of kids everywhere...he has a LOT of siblings. The animals (cows and goats) often live inside the houses too. On some safaris people spend a night in the Massai villages and most of them say its impossible to sleep. I guess I'll find out for myself......

I'm also planning to head back to Zanzibar with Claire. YAY!!!! I love it there, and hopefully will explore a little more this time!

This coming Saturday Claire and I are going to be in a wedding! Our friend's landlord's brother is getting married and he wants four wazungu in his wedding procession and we were asked to do it! Before the weddings here there is a procession through town with decorated cars and a brass band in the back of a pickup truck, then you go to the actual wedding, and then to a party afterwards. I'm pretty excited except for the fact that our dresses are orange.....

Time to go to school! I am taking loads of pictures this week and will try and post some of them later!