First Full Day in Kitale

Hi everyone!

This morning, most of team 1 slept in quite late. A few of us were awoken just 10 minutes before church service. The team attended service this morning at Kitale Christian Worship Center and worshiped alongside Mark, one of Transformed International's employees. We were late getting up, and thus late arriving at the church after a long walk in to town from the compound. We arrived in time to catch the tail end of witnessing and stayed through the rest of the service, which included an opportunity for visitors to the church (including us) to speak and be welcomed. The service was a very interesting cultural experience for us all and we were very warmly received. After church, we all went shopping in town. We bought food and shovels and various other supplies at Transmattress supermarket, the largest store in town. We hired a vehicle to take our supplies and three of us back to the compound while the rest of the team walked with Daniel back to the compound. Transformed International Kitale is located in an old neighborhood built by the British during their occupation of Kenya. Very little of the original pavement (left when the British left in the 60s) remains, but the houses and tree rows lining the streets show a ruin of what was once a very wealthy area of British Kitale.Once we returned to the compound, we rested and prepared for our first day of work bright and early tomorrow (well, not bright since we'll likely beat the sun up). The dinner this evening was spaghetti with delicious meat and vegetable sauce. Some of us played hearts until it was time to pack up and head for bed. Good Night