Love+faith=differentworlds

Since I have returned home the kids have been around a lot more.

It did take quite a few weeks for them to settle back in to having me here – had to remember they didn’t need to be afraid of the muzungu J

Some of the little ones come and visit me – usually in the morning after older siblings have gone to school  or doing chores.

I usually give them something to eat when they come and lately we’ve been drawing together with baby and pens or sometimes we watch tv.

Tv doesn’t seem to interest them much  - although if its the music channel then straight away they start dancing.

Music is such an important part of the culture here.

The older kids and I have been having fun some afternoons after school doing skipping.

Many of the kids had never seen a skipping rope before or knew how to skip so it was lots of fun teaching them how to do it.

Majority of them took to it really quickly and added in their local rhymes etc as they skipped. 

 
Since I took these photos - we have been doing skipping afternoons a few times a week - especially now the kids are on school holidays. 
So there are so many kids back from boarding school or who I now get to see before dark. 

The only real way to guarantee a good education here is a boarding school and actually works out cheaper overall then sending your kids to the same sort of quality day school with feeding etc. 
Very hard for parents when they have to send kids even 8 away. 
But even if they aren't sent away to boarding school many schools don't finish till around 5ish so so many of the kids i dont see often. 
There is a CRAZY amount of kids within 2 minutes walking of my house. 

Most times we have the skipping afternoons I am now averaging around 20 - 30 kids from age 1 - 15 
FUN TIMES!!!