I'm taking the opportunity of finally having a working connection again to write a quick post before I disappear into the bush tomorrow (Tuesday) for Easter holiday.  A lot, and at the same time nothing, has been going on the last few weeks.  Not sure how to explain this.  Basically, I've been dealing with the routines of life mostly; eating, sleeping, doing the daily work tasks of running an organization, organizing the household, working in the garden, shopping, reading, watching TV, exercising, playing with the dogs, reading some more, meeting with friends, running errands in town and all the other stuff that goes into daily living.  And yet, everything is also getting exciting because of just a few connections being made and a few other interesting things happening.  First the connections.  As president of the Rotary Club of Maralal this 2016/17 year, I get requests from various international clubs to be host club for different projects they would like to do in Kenya.  A couple weeks ago, one such request came from Rotary Club of Beverly Hills to ask if we would like to be host club to some water well projects they wanted to do with an organization in Kenya called The Samburu Project.  This was an amazing request for me as I know the Samburu Project and they work they have done in Samburu East Sub-County.  I was connected with them way back in 2007 up to about 2014.  I had even visited their USA headquarters in Los Angeles in 2008!  Also, I had been trying to figure out how to connect to an International Rotary partner to work on a Global Grant together.  And here it was, a club out of the blue, asking us to partner on a Global Grant in the areas that we work and the issue that we work on so hard - Water source development!!! Wow.  So, the last few weeks have been spent getting to know the various new parties and starting to put together a project.  More news on this in the coming months as details start coming out and plans firm up!!  Watch this spot!!

As for the interesting things, a couple things have been going on.  I had a quick trip to Nairobi last week to pick up daughter Naiboku from school for her term break after finishing first term.  She has 3 weeks off before going back for second term of Form 3 (Junior year) beginning May.  I had an exciting tire burst on the new tarmac road on the way down to Nairobi while traveling alone.  I managed to get all the lug nuts loose, then some nice gentlemen stopped and helped me finish changing it.  I ended up having to buy a used tire to use as a spare till I could get things fixed well. Thus, we came back through Nanyuki so I could get the car serviced and buy some new tires for it.  We got the car all fixed up and drove home to Maralal on Sunday in convoy with Reuben in his work car coming back from a meeting.  We actually ran into rain on the way home!! Yeah!  Real mud!  Though we definitely need more.  All over the county!  Keep up the prayers.  Also while in Nairobi, I managed to figure out my internet connection problem by updating my SIM card in my phone.  Such an easy fix.  It had bothered me for months!  One reason no posts for a few weeks.  Anyway, back on-line.  We used it to register Naiboku for SAT and ACT tests in June.  She is a Junior now (Form 3 Kenya system).  Starting to look ahead for University.  Soon to join her brother in USA.  But not before he comes back to visit us in Kenya after finishing his first year of University in Wisconsin!  He will arrive end of May!  Looking forward to that.  Well, off to finish packing for our trip to Ngurunit tomorrow.  Peace, here I come!!!