Kenyan Soccer and other such things.

I can't remember if I mentioned this before, but I think I did. I joined the woman's soccer team here at Daystar. Actually, I helped start the team. This is the first year that it has existed. The first couple of days we had very few girls show up, but now we have about 14-16! Enough for a whole team! Hooray! I secretly hope we don't have too many games though because they are not very good. I think we would lose big time, but they assure me that girls teams here just aren't that good...I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
That is one thing that has surprised me here. I came expecting that everyone played soccer and had been for their whole life and they were all really good. Well maybe not that extreme, but you know what I mean. In reality, not that many people play, especially girls. I went to watch the guys Daystar team this weekend. They won, but they weren't that good. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the fact they these guys may have been playing for much of their lives, but they didn't  have access to the couches and equipment and camps, ect that we have in the states. I can't forget  how blesses I am. The guys field has almost no grass on it and it. It is like a huge dust bowl when they run, but they still manage to have fun and play hard. The fans have so much fun too. It is not at all unacceptable to run onto the field with the players after your team has scored a goal and made a really exciting play. There are no bleachers, so everyone just lines up right on the sideline and has to run out of the way when the ball or players come near. I'm not sure I'm at the point yet where I can being myself to run onto the field, but it was pretty fun watching!

In other news: my new favorite day of the week is Sunday, particularly the supper part of the day. We get spaghetti. Yes I am excited about spaghetti. The rest of the week we have a lot of rice and beans and stew and cabbage, but on Sunday we get spaghetti! It's the little things in life that matter.

One more random thing. Kenyans really like holidays. Whenever there is an excuse for a holiday they take it. The first week we were here, they were signing the new constitution that they passed, therefore, they had a holiday with no work or school. The next week Daystar had a prayer day. No school. This week is the end of Ramadan for the Muslims and rumor has it that Friday or Monday will be another holiday even though 83% of the population is Christian. I'm not complaining :)