Kijabe Town Primary School Field Trip

You may remember us talking about the Kijabe Town Primary School. This is a school located about 20 minutes from us in a remote village. The children in the school were not getting fed at the beginning of the school year and we soon got involved in helping feed them. Thank you to all of you who have helped us in that endeavor. Philip has been taking the Moffat Bible students to Kijabe Town since October. We have gotten to know the Standard 6 (6th grade) teacher and his family. Right before we flew back to Texas in the end of March, Joseph, the Standard 6 teacher, told us that the students wanted to go with us to the airport to see us off because they have never been to the airport or to Nairobi at all. Many had not even left Kijabe Town. We decided that we should take these kids on a field trip to Nairobi. The date was set for July 31st and the planning began. We were to visit the airport, animal orphange, KICC building (tallest building in Nairobi) and a museum. So last Friday we woke up very early (it's school break for our kids so their enthusiasm was lacking) and headed to Kijabe Town. We rushed as usual only to get there and wait about 30 minutes for the other bus to arrive from Mai Maihu. This is what happens just about everytime we go somewhere. We rush and rush and arrive on time only to wait! I'm sure that if we were to decide to get somewhere when we got there and not worry about being on time, we would miss something or someone would have to wait on us. We just can't get over our Western mentality of being time oriented. It just isn't like that here. So when the second bus arrived, we all gathered around and said a prayer asking God for safety on the roads and thanking Him for the opportunity that He had granted us. Kenyans cannot believe that we can't pray in our schools because it is very much a part of their lives everywhere not just where it is deemed appropriate. I think they have that part right!

Waiting on the bus


We made it down the bumpy dirt road to Mai Maihu where we stopped and picked up sodas and loaves of bread. These items were for the kids lunches. They got a room temparature soda, a loaf of bread, a banana and a sausage. The saddest part to me was watching some of the students put their loaf of bread in their bag or purse to take home to their family. It made me realize what I take for granted everyday.

Lunch!

The students had a wonderful time in Nairobi and thanked us many times for the field trip. I'm still sure that we got more out of our time with them than they did on the field trip.

Petting a cheetah. What you don't see is the four other cheetahs being distracted by about 5 employees of the Animal Orphanage. About 30 seconds after this photo was taken, one of the employees threw a ball and this cheetah sped away so fast we didn't know what had happened. We quickly went right out the gate. Quite an experience!

Kijabe Town Primary School Standard 6 Class !