A quick hello from eldoret!!

Hello home! oh how i miss thee! so so so much! i wish i had more time to write but this is gunna have to be a quick one cuz we are on our way to ilula from kipkaren and just stopped in town to get a few things. i have so much to fill you all in on but thats just not gunna happen right now. We really dont have hardly any access to internet here, sadly. i would blog daily if i could. so we made it to eldoret and to the village of kipkaren. weve been here for about4 days now and it has already been quite and experience. im learning that culture shock is a real thing and that its rough in many ways. everything since weve been here has been a challenege...the travel, the food, the language, the culture, the time change, the sleeping arrangements, being sick (night 1 and 2 for me...miserable)...it has been quite a lot to adjust to. But I just keep reminding myself that God brought me all this way for a reason and im gunna find out why. so like i said, the first 48 hour of being here, i was very sick. dont know from what, but my bowels were not happy. it was horrible. i am still working on recovering from that and have yet to gain my appetite back so i am very weak and tired with no food in me. its hard to go from being sick, straight to ugali and veggie mush. alie and i spent the day in the clinic yesterday and saw a few patients. mostly babies and moms. we each got to give one injection so that was cool. it poured rain for about an hour as well which was nice. when we are not at the clinic, we are spending time at the children's home, getting to know them and playing with them etc. that can be pretty hard tho with the language barrier. We work in the clinic from 8-5 everyday and go back for lunch and dinner at the children's home. everyone here is so very welcoming and loving. it is great:) but still, it is just so so so much to adjust to...it has been rough. I am hoping and praying that in the coming days we will become more comfortable and adjusted to kipkaren and the challenges will decreases somewhat. I would really appreciate continued prayer for strength to make it through each day, for health physically, as i aleady learned that its miserable to be sick in a foreign country! and for comfort and purpose in this place. it is so easy to get homesick and miss everything and everyone that you love when you are half way around the world. i am hoping that i will be able to blog in a few days when we are on our way back from ilula...we are going there with the nurses to do kindergarten checkups on tons of kids! shud be interesting. tell everyone i love them and miss them more than they know!!

xoxoxo, somey