Fun With the Fox's

Monday March 7th we went to Dunga Bay and took a boat ride on Lake Victoria.
It's always fun to see the fishermen and the fantastic shore line.
We had wanted to go to the bird sanctuary near hippo point. Although we said that a few times… we got taken elsewhere, until I got a bit grumpy and paid a few more shillings. Of course, we did see some awesome birds! This kingfisher was standing on the head of a giraffe sculpture .

Look at the feet of this bird!




Later in the day we went to Erica’s. She fed us a great lunch and we visited with her friends. They asked great gospel questions and we had a good conversation. At the same time Aaron spent the 3 hours chasing chickens. As we walked to the fish pond he managed to catch a baby goat and scare the mama enough to break loose of her tether—and catch her again. When it was time to leave, Erica took Kera and Aaron off… and came back with a chicken. One of her friends had given Aaron a chicken! The white one is Aaron's.

He was SO delighted. He held it all the way home. He fixed a place in the patio and fed it rice, chased it, held it, and collected leaves for a nest for it.

Tuesday morning we went to Eliud’s school. The Fox children shared about their school and asked students about how their school worked. Then we watched Eliud teach about “sharing” or division. It was really good. “I have 6 sweets I want to share between two children. How many will each child get?” See? Sharing. He introduced the concept. Each desk had a set of “counters”—bottle caps—that they used to visually figure out the math—even up to 24 divided by 8! The children were swept on to the playground to play with the children a while, then we lounged and awaited sodas before departing. (Sorry. Andy got photos of the school, I think.)

We came home and they relaxed and E. Fox and I prepared for our Institute class we had that evening. We asked one of the class attendees- Fred- if he would be kind enough to take Aaron’s chicken. Aaron was SO sad to see it go. We had hopes Fred could use the chicken to raise and sell eggs. But it turns out it’s a rooster.

Wednesday we left for the Mara.