Update#4

My Blackberry ran out of room. here is the blog entry continued:

....the hot sun. There were traditional dances, bible verses, and even
skits! One of the skits was done by the project fathers. In Kenya,
children are typically meant to be seen and not heard and the fathers are
rarely present.  Compassion teaches the fathers to be nurturing and
involved in order to raise more well-adjusted and competent leaders for
tomorrow. One of the fathers was a complete hoot, dressed and acting like
a woman! And can you believe this....they did a skit for us, just like
one we have prepared for here!!!! Amazing. And very funny. Hillary,
Marshan, Cristin, Jenny and Jon were called up to dance (lots of video on
that). They LOVED Hillary. You should have seen her dance...oh that's
right...you will...on the video! ;o) Again, I cannot impress upon you
how special and overwhelmingly wonderful this day was.  Indescribable.
 Marshan, during our debrief, described how he was impacted by the
passion of the singers. There was no short song, yet each repeated phrase was
sung with the same fervor and passion as the last. Many team members
commented on how these Kenyans showed how to provide gracious
hospitality. We wondered how far short we might have fallen in this regard, had
they visited us first, now that we received this passionate welcome.  It
was extensive prep on their end. They was been waiting and working for
US 3 months.  It definitely gives one pause.  I know non one will
believe me, but for the first time in his life, I think, Marshan was
speechless. Nuff said.  
Lunch 4:30: sodas, water, 4 stews, (Aha! The unidentified meat is goat
meat!), bean stew, white rice, chiapatti. Sliced oranges.
Dinner:Bean paste (English potatoes mashed with beans), white rice,
tomato/cuke salad, cabbage salad, sliced avocado

Tomorrow we Will be: clearing a path with machetes for a tractor to get
in to where we will build the dams, then build the dam, painting the
church, digging deep seed holes in a large garden, digging another small
garden, working with the VBS kids

Wazumbus=us (white people)
Bwana asi fiwe=praise the Lord (to which we all answer "amen")