It has been a very busy week I have gotten behind in my reporting. If I think of anything important that happened on Wednesday I'll include it at the end. We went to Ziwa with the rest to get some things set up. We had some shopping to do so we both took empty backpacks. In Zela there are commercial vehicles which carry passengers into Eldoret. They are easily identified five broad yellow stripes on the side. It was not very comfortable and we waited over a half hour before the trip began. It was however covered much more quickly than in the white pickup. The poor road conditions only lasted for a couple of kilometers past Silas's place. Then the road turned beautifully smooth. By the time we got to Eldoret my back was feeling a little bit tired. As we neared the center of the city the driver stopped for gasoline. We decided to walk to our destination. First stop was a mall with security guards wanding patrons as they entered.
We hit a very secure ATM on the outer veranda and then went inside multistoried building. I followed Silas to a modern super market. After checking our backpacks at the door we grabbed a shopping cart and began checking things off our list. We spent over 4000 shillings took our collection of plastic bags to the counter to collect our back packs. The heaviest item was a 5 L bottle of orange juice. My pack was the biggest so I started with that. Next we headed for the hardware store. Before long I was wishing we had gone there first. It did not take this long at the hardware store to get the things we needed. Leaving the store we called the driver who had brought us into town to see if you could pick us up. He had already left so we started the long uphill walk back to the lot where the transportation vehicles load there passengers. The area was crowded with vans and busses heading to various places with hardly room to walk between. The next 14 passenger van heading to Ziwa was about half full. Silas decided we should take the second one so we could sit in fromt. We waited about a half hour for our vehicle to move up to first place. And we waited another 15 minutes for it to fill The hour ride home was no less comfortable than the ride into town and we had our heavy packs sitting on out laps. The van had been full for the whole trip but just before we were going to get off at Silas' a couple wanted to get a board. They were Silas's neighbors so we agreed to walk the rest of the way. This meant walking in front of the school near Silas's house while all the children were out at lunchtime. By the time we got Silas's drive kids were mobbing me. While trying to shake my hand they were pulling my arms with grocery bags in them. Having dealt with schoolchildren all my life I was soon free and walking up to the house. By the time Silas helped me out of my heavy pack in the kitchen I was exhausted.
Thursday afternoon I went to school with Ann. She had some copying she wanted me to do with the new printer, scanner. That was accomplished in pretty quick order. The machine was indicting low ink but we figured how to recharge it. Soon after we got home I was falling asleep on the couch. The kids came into play games so I retired to our room. Ann had everything spread out on a bed for her schoolwork but I found a little spot soon was fast sound asleep. After supper we shared some pictures of our wedding and after prayer we were soon asleep.
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