Sleepover

Friday evening i went to cason and colleens house for a SLEEPOVER! im 25. yes.. but sleepovers here are still cool =)  we (well they, cason and colleen) had the youth over for their second sleepover. its always an interesting time with the youth, blending the cultures together but we had a really fun time and i got to know them so much better. They are really amazing kids (only a few years younger than me!) and we shared a lot of laughs that night... it started out with the roasting of the goat... well no. it STARTED with me walking into the dining room to find half a goat laying on the table in a plastic bag.

it was a black one... i found some fur still left on its leg =/ by this time a few of the girls had started the ugali (made with corn flour, kinda like really sticky but not, mashed potatoes with the flavor of unseasoned grits =) they eat it with everything, kinda like a filler) and a stew and green grams (kinda like lentils, but waaayyyy better) and then chipote, which im really going to miss.. its just like a thicker sweeter tortilla, thats really good with stew.... so the girls were cooking away

and the guys were thinking about roasting the goat, and working on getting the perfect fire, and 4 hours later supper was ready!

so we ate at 10:30 and then had our discussion time led by cason. we're studying James now (recommended by me) and we talked about how our faith is nothing if our life doesnt show it, and how we can change the way we live to make it obvious that we have a personal relationship with God. there were lots of good questions asked and a lot of good discussion, followed by some singing (in english =( and swahili! =)) i LOVE their singing so much... it was a really meaningful evening and its so encouraging to see the youth really asking questions and wondering how they can be better christians and live better lives. (they could use prayers as well, just to find and stay on the right path in a society where that isnt always the 'normal' thing for youth to do.)

 (this is Aggie, Dorcas, Me, Colleen and Rael)
we got little sleep that night(went to bed at 430, and they were up and ready for breakfast around 7!), and watched "into the spear" with them till early in the morning (a movie by the church that did Fireproof i think, about these missionaries who went into the amazon to bring jesus to a tribe of killers, and who ended up getting killed). it was interesting. a good movie, but maybe not the right setting... esp watching it as missionaries. the next morning we had an american breakfast of eggs bacon and cinnamon rolls for them, and then did a devotional/follow up from the night before and then played games until it was time for them to leave. their favorite game WAS uno.. but colleen and i thought that needed to be changed so we taught them how to play spoons... every youth group needs to know how to play spoons! (we would've taught them dutch blitz too.. but im not sure how it would've worked, plus we had no cards) so we taught them spoons, with uno cards =) it works, by the way- and its now their new favorite... it was actually a blast to play with them.

after they left we went to relax as the house help moved in to clean up the disaster left, to a salon in nakuru where you can get 12$ pedicures that are awesome. I decided for some reason to ruin my relaxed state and get my eyebrows threaded!!! if you dont know what that is its an indian method of shaping the brows, where they wrap thread around their fingers and then somehow, they way they pull it apart or something, it pulls out the hairs. owie. =) he did a great job though! and it only cost me $1.25 . that always makes it better =)