Since we know you are sad that you all couldn't be with us at Imani, we want to give you a glimpse of our lives here:
We brought a lot of stickers with us, one of our best purchases- huge hit! Every time we hand them out, we are swarmed by children saying "auntie, sticker?" Once they get a sticker thy hide it and come back for seconds. We even found stickers in one of the girls arm pits!
Today as we were packing, Krystin found the rest of our stickers and gave them to a girl named Nicole to be in charge of distribution. She's 9 years old and so responsible. She sat all the kids down and one at a time had them stand up and come to her, she would then take a sticker and slap it on their forehead, and then send them on their way. Due to dirt and sweat, the stickers only stick for approximately 2 mins, so they fall to the ground. Other children hijack the stickers at this point. This leads to mug chaos and sad pouty faced children saying "auntie...?? Sticker??" While other kids proudly walk around tattooed with 10 stickers all over their forehead, hands, chest, legs, etc...
We can't wait to come back!!
On our flight to Nairobi this afternoon we saw Mt. Kilimanjaro out the window!
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