Day 44

Day 44
June 17

Over the week I've been here I've made a lot of progress with the joy
bringers. They still manage poor attendance, but that doesn't bother
me. The few that come are attentive (when not playing strip checkers)
and like being hands on with the training.

The tin-can candles ( tincandles, can-dles, what do i call these ) are
looking better everyday. They're cheap, relatively easy and nice to
look at. The 'zesta' canned fruit cans have sweet colors. Now we just
need to figure out a wax provider. It's lookin like Nairobi, and that
kinda sucks. It shouldn't be too bad, considering the mitatu situation.

We're also working on messenger and tote bags since one of the members
can sew up anything. They're lookin sweet. I should have shots up soon.

Yesterday I was just sitting in Iu house and a familiar face walked
by. Anne moman, who I haven't seen since the last time I was in Kenya
and never before that, just happened to be in the same place at the
same time on the other side of the world. That kinda blows my mind.

So some of you already know, but I wasn't the returning champ at
karaoke this week. But what's that mean, anyway? I sang 'I'll make
love to you' by boyz II men. I've never really heard the whole thing,
but I did my best. Turns out that when you don't know the words, you
can just yell and the kenyans go nuts!

Speaking of kenyans going nuts, you should see these girls dance. Step
off mazungus...

-cheers