Usiku Mwema.

Its just nine o'clock and we are exhausted. After dinner, we played games and visited with the boys again, and could hardly keep our eyes open. We worked very hard today and got a lot done. Moses and Jerram worked some serious magic in the computer lab. We are about half way done with the Windows XP installation and server upgrades. Emily taught some classes today and the kids had a great time. She will be teaching again tomorrow. I worked with Victor, one of the teachers who teaches in the computer shop (classroom) and observed his classs today. There is a really big gap in what we do back in Irving with what is done here. It is really astonishing. Tomorrow I will be installing Audacity, ArtRage and PhotoStory on his computers (which are already runnning XP :-)) and showing him and his students how to use them. We brought 5 digital cameras, 8 mp3 players, 3 usb drawing tablets, and a host of headsets, microphones and cables that hopefully can useful to them.

I forgot to mention that we started out the day by recording the chapel singing. Chapel is each morning at 8 and consists of about 30 minutes of singing, a student-led prayer and devotional talk, and announcements from Mbuvi. They have a home-made songbook that we are going to sing through the next two weeks (a few songs each morning) to compile an audio cd for them to take to other local churches to use. The singing is fantastic. The songs are generally call-and-response type songs usually led by one of the girls. We have tried all day to get an mp3 uploaded so you can listen, but the internet connection won't let us do it. Sorry, you'll just have to use your imagination and be patient.