Tuesday, 12 July 2011

The sun will help her to walk...

We are starting to get more settled into the IU House and have started meeting many of the amazing people that share their talents and training by working in Eldoret.  I was very pleased to meet another family this morning with two children that are both under the age of two and a half.   Ellana very much enjoyed playing with her new friend Andy's cars this morning.  .

One of the more comical moments from the day was when we were talking with one of the Kenyan babysitters of Gavin, the 10 month old I talked about yesterday.  Josie, Gavin's babysitter was saying that it was very good for Gavin to be in the sun as it had made him much stronger over the past three months and that he was now strong enough to crawl.  Steve and I both chuckled to ourselves that it had nothing to do with the fact that he had aged three months.  Josie and one of the guards, Leonard, were baffled by the fact that Ellana is walking on her knees and said that if she only spent more time in the sun she would become strong enough to walk very soon!

Ellana is tremendously enjoying all of the guard dogs that also act as pets for the IU house residents.  So far all of them seem to tolerate her attempt at petting them and shouting "doggie, doggie, doggie"  nonstop whenever she sees them.

  
Our new home- House 7 

View looking out of our front door

The main entrance to our side of the compound

Steve has a full day of surgeries tomorrow, and I am going to meet with the director of the business development side of the AMPATH organization.  I'll talk more about AMPATH later, but I will most likely be working with the handcraft project called Imani Workshops.  Imani trains HIV positive artisans to make various items and then the items are primarily sold in fair trade stores in the US.  Currently Imani is undergoing an overhaul in terms of management and operations, so I am excited to hopefully be able to put my degree to good use soon!

IU House basketball goal


Hoosier Drive

Hoosier Drive- The main guard station

Ellana and Tusker the dog
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2 comments:

  1. Betsy12 July 2011 at 13:31

    So happy about the blog! Can't wait to see more!

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  2. Mary Vaca23 July 2011 at 19:10

    So cute! My girls had that same outfit. Glad she's enjoying the doggies. Our church sells Imani jewelry twice a year. I have some beautiful necklaces and earrings made from magazines (I think.)

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