Slow but Steady Progress

Today, after waking up and going to breakfast, we headed out to Orkeeswa to start work on the court. We continued yesterday’s trench digging, making several more trenches and making others deeper. We stopped for a break during which we asked the Orkeeswa kids about their culture, especially the Massai tribe. Lunch, then more work and playing basketball, soccer, or volleyball, and then we headed back to the guest house. Looking forward to going back tomorrow!

Austin

During lunch, we played “hand games” with some of the Orkeeswa girls—Flora and Ellie. We showed them how to play “miss mary mack” and “concentration” and they showed us their equivalents. We tried to teach each other what to say while playing but we both messed up a lot. Eventually we all figured it out and could play pretty well. Also during lunch we finally got people to dance! Yesterday, dance time was pretty low-key but today we had a lot of people up and having a good time. Isiah, Mussa and Monongo were definitely the best Orkeeswa dancers but Hugh represented our group pretty well. Tom and Ellie found a pet rock who was given many names including Rocky, Stewart, and Rufus—I think they concluded with Rufus. He certainly became a part of our team Tanzania family. It is great to see that the Orkeeswa students are all warming up to us and us to them. Everyone’s having a good time.

Ash and Tyler