Day 3 by Shane Maxey

Day 3, in the life of Shane while in Africa. This morning at 2 o'clock a.m; I woke up ready for the day, but because nobody else was even awake I took a bath and scrubbed the red clay dirt off of my feet from the day before walking all over the city of Eldoret. I made an ice pack to put on my knees and ankles to help stop the throbbing pain, because I was being dumb and jumping rope with the kids, yes that was a sight I am sure, me jumping rope. While I iced my limbs, I studied my lesson for today. Later, at a normal hour after breakfast we assigned people to different groups for Saturday's Childrens Vacation Bible School type event. I volunteered to be on the puppet team along with Josh, Hailee, and Kelly. I am going to be a camel with one hand and on the other hand I will be a puppet I named Blake. Josh's puppet is a rather large monkey that hangs around his neck and waist. This whole puppet team is hilarious. I cannot recall laughing quite so hard as watching Josh and his monkey torturing his faither. Others will be face painting, teaching songs, telling a bible story, running a snack station, and a game station for the kids. Frankly, I think some of us are a little overwhelmed and excited by prospect of participating in an event dealing with 1000 children. I know I am!


We shopped today and had the opportunity to barter with the shop owners and it was fun to watch the kids try to figure out the barter system. Everyone spent most, if not all of their 2000 shillings, some of the girls, who will remain nameless, spent more than their 2000 shillings and were borrowing from others until we got back to the compound. The shop owners were glad to see me go, because at one point Jeremy was trying to buy a gift for his Father-in-law, and I bartered the lady down to a price she did not want to give him. I said, come on hook a brother up and give him a great deal not just a good deal, finally Jeremy and I got the great price. Later today I went swimming with 12 of the youth and others returned to shopping. Shopping again, are you kidding that was just crazy in my book, shopping one time in a month is one time to many as far as I am concerned. Now it's evening and the group is doing our bible study in James, it's pretty intense. We are safe and having a blast of a life time, Matt is constantly counting heads! Signing off for today, we love you all from Africa, I love and miss you Michelle, Shane!

P.S. We will be mudding a church building tomorrow.  Pictures will be coming......