Tonight we invited John (left) and Dominic (right) for supper.  John is a teacher at FTC and Dominic is the registrar.  It was a hybrid USA/Kenya event.  We made chili soup but served it with chapatis, peas and carrots, and mixed fresh fruit - mango, pineapple, honeydew melon.  After the meal we played Scrabble and allowed both English and Swahili words.  We had a very enjoyable time and even learned something about how we each view the world.

When we left Kijabe in 1999, our son Caleb was given a chicken as a gift.  We thought the person who gave it to him was just being nice.  We were told that giving a chicken to a young boy is a way of helping him accumulate wealth – not money, but property.  The chicken can have chicks which will eventually add up to enough chickens to trade for a goat.  The goat will have more goats and eventually you will have enough goats to trade for a cow.  The cow will have calves and eventually you will have enough cows to buy a wife.  So the chicken is not to be eaten or sold.  It is to be kept as the beginning of wealth.

We did not know that, so we gave the chicken to Mary, the lady who helped in our house.  It is a good thing Caleb didn’t have to buy his wife!