As the second week approached, we all started to feel exhausted from the hard work we had been doing and the visits to the bomas this past weekend. Everyone has been feeling run down these past couple of days and almost half of us have shown signs of sickness. At the work site we put in all of our effort but it can be hard to perform our best work when we are tired and sore. It is around this time of the trip where it can be easy to let our feelings of sickness and emotions of missing home take over our job at Orkeeswa and we can lose sight of the importance of why we are here. However, we are constantly reminding ourselves and each other of these things and talk them over when necessary. We know the work we are doing is hard, and we know we can get tired and cranky. We also know, though, that the outcome of this work will be the greatest reward in itself and the difference we will make in the school is enough motivation to move one more bucket of dirt. Between the many card games we play whenever we get the chance or the brief Swahili lessons from Matt, getting through tough times will be no problem and we look forward to getting closer to the product of our hard work.
Madeleine and Gia
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