What's your record for number of peanut butter & jelly sandwiches made at one time? This evening our 8 high school students set a new Kenyan record of 130 sack lunches … complete with sandwich, juice box, chips, napkin and a few hard candies.
Setting the record is a bit easier if no one in the country knows what a P&J sandwich is, but that aside, we are ready to share a typical American sack lunch with Class 7 and 8 from Gichunge Primary AND the entire teaching staff AND the porridge cooks AND the van drivers and the entire mission team. Jeremy Punch was the brains behind this cultural exchange last year. Now as a high school senior, he has marshaled his peers into doing it with him. The adults stayed at a safe distance while they shopped at the local Nakumat (think Wal-Mart meets Kroger meets Stadium Hardware … an odd mix, but it works in Kenya) and as they assembled the lunches.
We are off early tomorrow morning to conduct the morning devotions at Gichunge Primary, which involves they-sing-we-sing-they-laugh-at-our-singing-they-sing-some-more, … and the flag goes up. A good way to start the day.
We then all leap back into the vans to get to BLISS for a round of tying off loose ends. We then head back to Gichunge to share P&J sack lunches and have them laugh again at what we eat for lunch. It will be great.
To honor us, they have decided we should plant "some trees" with them on the school grounds after lunch. We are hoping not to set another record on this activity. A few weeks ago they did several hundred plantings in an afternoon. We may need to burn off all those sandwiches, but …
Finally, we plan to end the day with a visit the Amani Children's Home and Dr. Karambu. It is always good to hear what she is up to in terms of the orphans and peace and justice issues here in Kenya.
We have a few more days, but tomorrow we are going to pause to celebrate our work and friendships with P&J sandwiches. We invite you to do the same wherever you are.
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