Hakuna matata...

Hey everyone,
hope you're all doing well. We've just arrived back from a wonderful weekend away with another couple who teach French at the school here. We ventured over the equator to lake Baringo, which is a beautiful place 2 and a half hours North East of Turi, where we saw hippos, crocodiles, monkeys, ostriches, lizards, kingfishers, fish eagles and loads of other cool birds and wildlife. It was so amazing - we stayed in a beautiful 'banda' (hut) on the lakeside and were quite surprised to find two enormous hippos grazing noisily just outside our window at 3am this morning! It was so wonderful to see a totally different part of Kenya, with no rain and proper heat... We travelled in our friends' minibus, which was quite entretaining as it looks a lot like the matatus that are small buses that travel around picking people up and dropping them off on their way, so we got flagged down a lot, until they realised it was full of mzungus...

We did actually do some work this week too... Dan's loved teaching maths and music to the years 4, 6, 7 and 8, and Rachel had a great time playing music games with the 'turitots' - nursery and reception, and also years 1-3. The week goes by very quickly as there are so many different rotas and duties - dishing out breakfast and lunch, supervising homework time and boarding duties in the evenings, but it's great fun and the kids are very warm and loving.

This week we're looking forward to starting the peri teaching - violin, viola and cello for Rachel and piano and drum kit for Dan. We're also taking our first children's bible study, which we'll be leading together in our house, and would appreciate prayer for (they're all year 6 boys so Rachel's a little daunted!) And then we finish next week with Dan's first juggling session and my cookery class... (more prayer required!) We're so thankful to God for his provision of everything so far, we love our jobs and can explore and travel in our free time, it's perfect!

We'd love to hear from you all and hear how things are going back home, miss all you friends and family lots.  If youre on skype please add us on either rachelclarejones or danojones65, we'd love to chat.

God bless and speak soon

D & R x

ps photos of this weekend to follow...