the sights, sounds and smells of Africa...

It's about 2 am and just woke up from some much needed sleep.. My mind is going back over eveything from yesterday. This place is amazing!!! Freak out completly gone and such a feeling of gratitude, thanking God for sendng me and letting me experience all of this. I'm lying in bed under a mosquito net, listening to the band downstairs still playing the rythmic cool african music, they haven't stopped playing since we arrived at 5 pm. I smell kenya, what exactly the smell is I'm not sure... Spices, curry, rosemary perhaps... Not a sweet smell like honey suckle anywhere... But only savory, strong flavor. The children are beautiful. They all swarmed our bus as we arrived at the village. I got out to a sea of smiles and hugs, they surround you and it was such a warm welcome from people I have never met, but my spirit seems to know them all and so happy to see them again. You should see the landscape, it absolutely looks like a scene from Out of Africa... Acadia trees spotting the tall grasslands, blue skies against yellow green hills, red colored dirt just like home. I think when God created the earth, he definately began in Africa and I get to see his best work! What a blessing I've been given! You would love it!!! Now, time to get a few more hours of rest. I miss you and love you all so- T