Before we left Machakos to go swear in Nairobi, we had a family appreciation day
where 2 members of our family came to have lunch with us, showed them a skit we
made up, made a few speeches and had a picture slide show that had pictures of us
and all of our families.
Two of my brothers came, Jon and Evans. Jon is 17 and Evans
is 14. Both boys are a bit shy but such sweet hearts. While I was living at my
host families house both boys were so nice and we use to talk a bit but they
never opened up fully. During this lunch Jon was so much more open and
talkative. I'm not sure if it was because I was a women staying in their home
that they felt that they couldn't be relaxed and friendly around me because it
might be inappropriate but I finally got to see the real Jon. Evans had come
along with me to different events and had met my friends and their host
brothers and sisters, so we had gotten to know each other slightly better.
Evans is extremely shy and so I was shocked but pleased that he came along with
me for many of those events and so happy that I got to spend my final days with
my host brothers.
For the skits we did a funny run through of how we struggled
with sign language, didn't know how to take a splash bath, didn't know how to
really hand wash our clothes, how to cross the busy street, or speak kiswahili
but by the end of 10 weeks we had learned it all and were true Kenyans at that
point as well as to thank our host families for teaching us everything!
It was a fun day and was good to say goodbye to our host
families!
( far left Jon, Me, Naimi my aunt, Evans)
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