Sunday, June 21, 2009

Kisumu

I have been in Kisumu for four days now and we are leaving for Mutumbu today. Kisumu is pretty quite. The hotel is nice and basic we have hot running water and a fan which is awesome. We went to a place called HOVIC two days ago which is a street boys drop in centre. They have just set up a night shelter as a part of that which was pretty cool. They boys were so cute and ranged from about 5 to 18. They just wanted to know about Australia and play with us. We took them some biscuits and handed out their lunch. It was really inspiring going to HOVIC because WYI painted the walls there and built the kitchen. It was also very challenging because the children take you aside and ask fro you to sponsor them. It is so hard to know what to say because you can't sponsor all of the kids you meet no matter how cute they are. I think they were happy to just play with us. Yesterday we had an 'amzing race' where we had this list of places to go in Kisumu to make sure we are comfortable catching public transport and just getting around. It pretty fun but Pip and I were sick so we didn't run which meant that our team came last. We have found this really cool resturant called the green garden which I am sure I will be going back to. After the amazing race we went to a place called shinners which is a refuges centre. We walked around the slums and even went into a couple of the houses. It was so eye opening. It's one thing to see slums on TV or read about them but to actually be in one is so completely different. In one of the houses I went into it was slighty bigger than my bedroom and had 29 babies and small children and one one women who was the grandmother or greatgrandmother of all of these children. As we walked around children followed us until there was about 40 kids following us. They just wanted to hold our hands and play with us. Well thats about all for now I am going into mutumbu today and wont have internet access for about 3 weeks. Hope everything back home is going well and i look forward to reading your emails when I can get to a computer again.
Peace and Love
Xx

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