Mrs. Key's Kindergarten Chapel

Here at our school, elementary has chapel every Friday. Some weeks there will be outside guests and speakers, while other weeks different grades at the school will lead it. This past Friday, Shauna and her class did chapel and they did really great. I think alot of it has to do with the fact that they have an amazing teacher! Here is a picture of them before any of the other classes got there.

They sang songs and cited a verse that had to do with creation. There was even one child brave enough to pray.

Sorry we haven't posted in a while. We have been busy with work and are doing many things on the weekends, some ministry and some recreational. We are developing many friendships here which is so important living cross-culturally. God has been really good to us. We love you guys and thank you for your prayers!

Video of Crescent Lake

Thought I would include just a short video of some of the zebra and giraffe we were around. It was really windy that day so the audio isn't the best.

Lake Navaisha

Over the last couple of days, we have been at Lake Navaisha which is in the Rift Valley. Our school has a faculty retreat every year and they took all of us to stay for a couple of days. Its really nice because it only takes an hour and a half drive, its quiet, and there is alot of wildlife.

We went on Saturday to a place called Crescent Lake. The pictures of the wildlife are taken there. This was over 200 acres of property that went along Lake Navaisha that is actually privately owned. This property is where much of the filming took place for the movie "Out of Africa." These are impala, which are similar to gazelle that were also there.

What was really cool about this place is that we were able to walk, with a guide of course, instead of being in a vehicle like you have to at most safaris. I think one of the main reasons is that there are no predatory animals, outside of hyena. As we walked, we saw many different bones and skeletons. A couple of guys got full gazelle skulls that still had the horns to take back to the house. I only came out with a jaw of a zebra and some bones of a wildebeest. I'm suprised Shauna let me bring them to the house, of course they have to stay outside for now.

We found out that hippos sleep in the water during the day and are on land all night awake. We accidentally stumbled onto one that was on shore and fortunately he was more scared of us than we were of him. A little further along a friend found a boa constrictor that was laying out in the sun on a rock. We eventually saw it in a crack in a rock. It was huge and different seeing one in its own native surroundings and not in an aquarium. We had a really good time.