2 1/2 months already

We've been here in Kenya 2 1/2 months now.  We are getting used to our daily routine.  We crawl out from under the mosquito netting on our bed at 0630.Take a shower and hope the water heater on the shower is working.  For breakfast we usually have some kind of hot or cold cereal, boxed milk(like evaporated milk) juice, toast and take our anti-malaria pill.  We can't drink the water that comes straight from the tap(that's if the water is on).  It has to go through a three filter system that is connected to the kitchen tap.  We have a bottle of purified water handy for such things as brushing our teeth, taking medicine, and cooking with.
I try to write in my journal everyday, so I won't forget all the wonderful adventures we are having.
Monday is our "P" day(preparation day)  Just like at home we clean the flat,, Errol does most of the laundry in our small washer & dryer(that's better than having two wash tubs out in the yard, one to wash and one do rinse with..  Our flat really is easy to take care of,  The floors are all tiled with area rugs in the living room, office and bedroom.  There are open air vents in the ceilings that I dust with a long pole with a brush on it .  Usually we go to the Nakamatt (Kenya's version of Wal-Mart) It has just about everything that we will need.
Errol, being a farmer at heart has a nice little garden(or Shamba) where he has tomato's, carrots, peppers, lettuce, butternut squash, Swiss chard, and merrigolds. It's quite a challenge to keep it watered, as the ground here is like a sponge.
I am teaching a Literacy Class two day or more a week.  We go out visiting the members of our Branch and still need to have a guide to help us find our way but we are getting better.
We know why Errol was sent here, because there seems to always something that needs to be fixed or adjusted
We visit an orphanage once a week to do a service project there.  One of our branch members is the grounds keeper there so Errol and our four Elder's work on the grounds and I get to go to the Nursery to help feed babies.  These are  beautiful children, with names like Josiah, Benedict, Mary and Judy.
We do a lot of traveling to different areas, some that take us 2-4 hours to get to over roads that look like a goat trail, or have so many potholes in them we weave all over the place.
We are busy and having new experiences every day that we never expected to have, but it seems like the "Norm"  Our favorite expression is, sigh "it's Africa"