Tuesday 6/9

Not too much was new about today. We went to our first real Swahili lesson and learned all about the many different greetings they have. Then was tea and our service learning agencies. We just showed up at the orphanage and immediately went to play with the babies. We took them outside and played for a little bit and then fed them lunch. After this we went back to our own lunch and then had class with our OU professors. Class ran late so we didn't get much time with the wifi before headin back to our host families lol. We caught the bus instead of our host dad coming to pick us up, but he did meet us at the bus stop (don't worry our host mom works at TCDC so she was with us the whole time) so we didn't have to walk the mile and a half back to their house. The bus was really just a big van and there were a ton of people on it, but it's a bus reserved for TCDC people so it wasn't as full as it could have been. In the evening we learned from our host dad about their family structures. They have a patriarchal lineage structure so they count all of the cousins on their dad's side as their other brothers and sisters and all of their dad's brothers as their other fathers. They also count all of their. Then on their mom's side they count their cousins as their cousins and their mother's sisters as their other mothers. They also count all of their nieces and nephews as their other children. After learning all this, we went to see the place where our host dad's parents and Bruce are buried and then we had dinner. After that we talked for a little longer then headed back to our little cottage to do our homework before bed.

Here is a picture of my lunch: