Ongoro

This morning we rolled out of Kisii for the last time and made our way to Ongoro.  It's not too far, only 1.5 hours.  There we met with Tobias Olweny, our director there.  We were on a limited time schedule and so we just did the important things, recording the kids and eating lunch.;)  They had two choirs, one called junior choir and one called choir.  Both were very good, but the juniors stole the show.  They did three English songs, all were new to us, and sang with such sweet innocence.  The older kids did great as well. 

On the blackboard in the hall where we were recording, they had written three songs in english.  We thought they would be the ones they would sing, but in fact they were no ones that someone had left for them to learn.  One of them was a song we sing, You Are My All In All (Worthy Is Your Name).  They said they had not learned it well, but they sang it for us anyway.  The rhythms and tempo were very different from the way we sing it.  So I thought I would try to taech it to them the way we sing it.

Of course I picked one of the hardest songs to learn possible, but I really had a good time trying.  They got close and we were out of time, so I burned them a CD and asked them to try to learn it the American way so we could record it next time.  Maybe it would make a great Kenya Sunday thing.

We left by 1:30 so we could make the long drive to Kapsabet.  We made it with no problems are are here now.  We just finished recording their kids and eating dinner and Susie is with Stephen talking to the kids in the hall while I am writing this.  I cant begin to describe what a blessing she has been on this trip, especially loving on the kids in the way only a mother can.  I'll write more about that later.