Another Week's Gone By Already!!

Well ... time has flown by this week with little access to the internet ... sorry for those of you who have been waiting for an update!! This week has been as busy as the rest of our time ... but one bonus has been that we've been the only people in the Guest House for the majority of the week and so at the end of the day we can just fully relax!! - that all changes again on Monday though!! Jenny is enjoying school more and more ... this week she has been working with a few kids who have needed some extra one-on-one help and also as a general classroom assistant in the 5th and 6th Grade classes! - Her time in the Orphanage was also good as some of the kids recognised her and wanted cuddles straight away ... and she also spent some time with a younger age group too, those who've just started walking ... or who aren't quite there yet ... they were just as cuddly!!! - food time is when they need most hands-on help ... and Jenny either spoon or bottle-fed about half a dozen kids on Tuesday evening!! Mark continues to work in the hangar! - most of his time has been spent trying to get an Ethiopian Caravan back in the air again. Unfortunately we've been waiting for some parts for the windshield from Cessna in the USA and they still haven't arrived after two weeks. But this does mean that some other jobs that were going to wait till it was back home have now been done!! Next week Mark will be leading the morning devotion times ... for those who really know him ... you'll now be picking yourselves off the floor ... yes, I'm going to be speaking in public. The Monday to Thursday slots are just a short 5min time of reading a daily bible note ... but Friday is a more indepth look at a passage and he has to prepare this week ... and is already nervous about it!!!!! Thursday night the Bernard, the MAF Kenya Director popped round with a surprise for us ... he said that there were 2 seats on a flight the following day ... so we could go and see what a day for a MAF pilot would be like!! - we set off at around 10am (on a plane that Mark had done a little bit of work on!!) ... and stopped in 4 places before returning to Nairobi at 4.30pm!! First stop Wamba, a village by some mountains to drop off an Italian Nun (there is a Caltholic hospital and school there), then Korr, for a pick up ... it was really sandy/desert-like ... and there was a strong wind blowing sand into eyes, mouths etc etc (gritty teeth for a while after that!!!) Third stop Marsabit, where we collected quite a few people, it was more of a built up and 'green' area ... with our only non-dirt runway (apart from Nairobi!!) and finally even further North to Kalachi to pick up an AIM missionary ... where it was very hot 35 degrees!! - 4 completely different stops ... and a chance to see an Africa that we were much more interested in!!!! Well, we are now almost into our last week here working for MAF! The time has just flown by but it has given us a real good look at MAF and the way they work. On Tuesday 12th we will be flying to Kakamaga to visit some friends of Jenny's and a chance to see another part of Kenya - hopefully we'll be adding to this at least once more before we head there though!!