Monday July 19
When we arrived to the JohnKrisDan home on Monday, we were surprised because the children did not come out and greet us. They actually were at school, except for christian, who was doing chores. Promptly we started with our labor work which consisted of scraping paint off of the perimeter wall and cleaning all the windows in the home. After two hours of working around the home a group of traditional African dancers arrived who had the challenge of teaching us how to dance. we gathered in a large circle and learned a dance that involved clapping hands and moving our legs in a circular motion. The clapping pattern, singing, moving and dancing proved to be quite difficult for some of us, but after about an hour of rehearsing we managed to produce a work of art... sort of. Later that night, when we performed the dance for our group at dinner, our driver named Teddy couldn't recognize our rendition of this traditional dance until about 15 minutes into our performance, when he began to laugh and sing along; like we said... a work of art.
Now Sebastian and Winston are sitting in an Internet Cafe in Old Ningo posting this, as we speak. Sorry for the delay in posts, as you can see it's been difficult to find the time to get internet. Hopefully we'll be able to post again soon.
Love, us.
by the way dates are all wrong...sorry for any confusion.
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