The sky is still very blue

And I am running out of creative blog-title ideas.

The last week has been good, I think (everything is now slowly blurring into one giant memory of children and ugali and sun). I've had some of the BEST days at the orphanage :) Basically, as my Dad is coming to see me for two weeks (EXCITING :D) and I'd obviously told him about the state of the orphanage and schools, he gave me some money to spend on the orphanage before he arrived so he could see what the money did when he visits on Thursday. Sooo...last Thursday I spent a very long two-or-so hours (about one hour spent playing snake on my phone waiting for this ridiculous salesman to reappear) in the basement of the local supermarket haggling over 10 mattresses and a water tank, and finally squashing into an extremely small delivery van and transporting these to the orphanage. They LOVED them; it was brilliant. The ten mattresses made an extremely good trampoline and so they bounced up and down and did lots of gymnastics on them and then squealed and rolled around on them a lot when we chucked out their mouldy foam mattresses and gave them new, brightly patterned REAL mattresses. They were all so pleased just to be given their own toothbrush and toothpaste too, neither of which they had before. I loved seeing what just a tiny bit of money could do :)

Then yesterday we totally threw all ideas of Africa's lack of water out of the window by having the best waterfight EVER with them :D We all raced around in the mud (dust+water=mud), starting with a few innocent water bombs and ending by throwing Ben in the enormous well and emptying entire buckets of water over heads. Needless to say, we all were completely soaked, with stripes of mud on our faces (deliberate) and see-through white tops (not deliberate). It was hilarious, although I think the matatu driver who we went home with disagreed when he saw that we were dripping wet.
School for the last week has been uneventful; the kids have had exams so I've spent a lot of time in a mudhut trying to occupy myself whilst monitoring the behaviour of standard 2 during exams. The lovely girls have been as sweet as ever and gave me big hugs before I left on Friday :) My class have been nice but insane; I told them I was going home yesterday and they all made crying noises and wouldn't shut up for 5 minutes.

The weekend was lovely; me, Rebecca and Annie went with Grace and Gigi to visit Grace's 15 year-old daughter at her boarding school. There was loads of family there and we had a very prickly picnic underneath a thorn tree in the baking sun. On Saturday night I slept at Karanja's house, where four of my friends live, sharing a bedroom with Ben and Amy, both of whom are very hyper people and so we spent all night giggling and not catching up on sleep at all. Sunday was spent lounging around on sofas with puppies, ice cream and films :)

Tomorrow Dad arrives in Nakuru and I will be spending 2 weeks with him doing exciting animally things like the Masai Mara and Hell's Gate, a national park with wild animals that you can walk through :)