Kenyan Birthday

So another year older! No longer a teenager but still as immature!

I had a very interesting birthday here in the orphanage. Luckily Clare was there because it was a teaching day and I told Clare that it was my birthday so I didn't have to teach :) It worked like a charm and I spent the morning sitting at the back of the classroom making up worksheets because the photocopier was broken!

At lunch time Clare and I sat down to make party hats (they're prettttty cool) and all the kids would walk past our house and just burst out laughing when they saw us. We wene to class and had ALOT of kids in there, we thought it would be fun to make party hats with them. It was actually quite stressful stick the crepe paper and tinsel on all the kids hats but they did all look really cute! I was then extra special and had a big chorus of 'Happy Birthday' sung to me, it was in english but a different version to our one. We also gave them lollies at the end which was extra exciting for the kids. I took pride in walking around in my party hat for the rest of the afternoon, although decided to take it off when we headed off the shops.

We went to Karen and I met up with Crystal, Cameron, Christina and Kelsey where we enjoyed chocolate cake and mango smoothies. YUM! I also got homemade birthday cards form all of them (actually I believe Crystal made them and the others signed them) but it was really nice! Then it was back to the orphanage where we played basketball and soccer with the older boys. I had threats that they were going to tip water on me because it was my birthday but in the end the truth got out and they were all too scared of Mama to actually do it!

We bought cake for dinner that night and the kids were very very very excited. I got another chorus of 'Happy Birthday' and Mama had great fun cutting the cake and handing it out. The kids were like vultures and just snatched at it! We also had lollipops to hand out. One of the older girls came up to me with a birthday card that had a poem that she wrote for me on it which was really nice!

Thats about all over here, Clare has headed off to the Giraffe Center which I passed on, still no desire to kiss a giraffe. I do believe we are off to a guest house tonight for a bit of a social outing with the other volunteers.

Only one more week at the orphanage! It's very sad to think we will be gone next sat, as exciting as the safari is!!!

Oh and Clare got her hair braided today, they tried to et me to do mine but I refused, I know, I'm boring. It looks very funky hahaha, her scalp is very white!!! I'm waiting for it to get burnt :P just teasing!