Day 6 in the Eyes of Joel

Today, we went to the orphanage (owned by Kip Keino) and two primary schools in the area surrounding Eldoret. When we arrived at the orphanage, we split up into our three groups to take a tour of the orphanage. Compared to most of the buildings that I have seen in Eldoret, the building itself was really nice. There was an open air courtyard which seemed the main focus of the floorplan. When the tour finished, we went outside and were greeted by a bunch of little Kenyans who had just started their playtime. It was amazing to play with them on their expansive playground with many features. Some people rode on a swing, some played soccer, and some climbed over jungle gym equipment. We were then instructed to pick a little kid to walk with and we headed over to the cow farm. Many of the little kids fell asleep in our arms as we walked, and others wanted to walk al0ngside us while holding our hands. We continued our tour and looked at the fields that grew pineapples and beans. We continued walking and saw the old building that used to be used as the orphanage. There was a huge plot of land that the orphanage was on, so it took us a while to make it all the way across. Tori gave me her camera during the walk since I didn't have a child in my care, and I took a bunch of sweet pictures. We would upload some of them onto this post, but the internet connection here is very slow and it would take far too long.
We eventually made our way back to the playground and played with the children for a while longer. Then, we made our way back into the dining room and proceeded to have a feast! The food was absolutely delicious (especially the chapati, which is like a tortilla, but better) and it was in no shortage of quantity. After we had stuffed ourselves to our heart's content, we made our way back to the Golden Eagle (our bus) and left the orphanage.
Then we went to the primary schools to pass out flyers for our VBS tomorrow. The first one we went to was in Kapsoya, and we were greeted by several hundred kids. Missionary Randy introduced us as a group and made a few jokes about us in Swahili so we couldn't understand. We then went down the line and introduced ourselves and said our names. We were then swarmed by many many little kids who wanted flyers and were dying to shake our hands and ask us "How are you?". I'm pretty sure we all got pretty close to breaking the world record for most handshakes in five minutes.
Then we went to the next school and basically did the same thing, except there weren't as many kids. Instead of shaking our hands, they all stood around us and looked at us. We head the word "mzungu" many times, which means white person. After, we headed back to the compound, and I ended up writing the blog for today. So long for now.