Children are adorable

While we are here in Meru I have more downtown to write and get caught up on blogging. :) I want to write random stories from the children's home because I miss them daily! 

All the kids go to school but there are 4 different ones they attend. One school is within walking distance of the home. The kids were always trying to convince us to come and visit them, during the day (I was concerned that we would be interrupting but they always tell me it is "no problem") 

Finally we figure out they have a break from 11-11:30 and we could go then. Well we show up at 11:00 and no one is outside so a little nervous we enter the school grounds (people start shouting hello from classroom and now it is a little embarrassing obviously we are interrupting the school day) finally I ask a random student where the headmaster office is so we can check in with him. Mr. John is such a nice man and we have a nice long chat about the school and America and his life and we ge a tour. Anyway by then it is lunch so we go home with the kids and promise to come back for sports at 3:00pm. So we don't interrupt learning.

We come back and children are everywhere. Quickly our Imani kids find us and take us by the hand and lead us on a grand tour. Now, just for reference these kids are probably 7-8 and we have a bit (major) of a language barrier. They speak to us only in Swahili and we respond in English saying we don't understand, very productive ;). After saying hello to everyone we could find two little boys motion they are going with us!! Now usually the kids have to wait for the older ones and don't come home until 5:00 and it was only 3:30 but the children were insistent. After another lap around the school we find one of the older children who speaks English and he says it's okay! So off we go!

We have to walk about 1/2 a mile to the main road and then another 3/4 of a mile from there to the home. While we are walking the kids keep talking in Swahili and Rebecca and I do not understand, but we kind of pretend too a bit. Before I can stop it little M flags down a Tuk-Tuk looking so proud of himself. And starts to get in. I about die of laughter, I can't explain that we should probably walk, te driver is looking at us expectantly for a ride! So we just climbed in!! Both boys were so proud of themselves and smiled at us the whole way. I just love these little rascals.

The proud little culprit!