First Few Days
A Quick Note to Anyone We Gave A Contact Card to:
The address we put was incorrect, here is the correct one:
House of Hope
c/o Michael & Tammi Rice
PO Box 66339
Nairobi, Kenya
We have a cell phone:
Calling from land line: 011 254 020 0720 133 104
Calling from mobile: 000 254 0720 133 104
That is a crazy long number!
Tuesday & Wednesday:
So much to talk about, my mind is going 90 to nothing. We are in love! Africa is amazing and we have not even seen that much of it. The children greeted us with songs and cake! We have been treated like kings and queens, we are so happy. The food is amazing, they have this cabbage and carrot dish that is to die for, I could eat it forever (lets hope I don’t get sick of it). So yeah, the kids are amazing, we sat and read (2X) “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.” The kids did all the reading and I just listened and held up the book. These kids are so smart, they are teaching us Swahili, we already feel like we have learned a lot! Margaret is amazing, she greeted us with hugs and kisses and we felt at home the moment we saw her. She is so wise and peaceful, the children love her so much. The landscape is much like west Texas, you can see hills and mountains in the background but the land is dry and the grass is yellow. You can see goat and sheep and the chamba (aka the garden) is amazing. Heather B. and Holden would be in Heaven there is lots of Spinich and everything is so fresh. Margaret said that sometimes you can see zebras and giraffes on the rough road to House of Hope. Everyone is so warm and we are going in to town soon! We are playing well with everyone!!! We miss you all very much but feel very much at home. We feel we may have packed to many clothes and too many shoes. Everyone here just wears flip-flops, who knew! Other things that you would not have ever thought of is that they have TV and they watch MTV (crazy) they watch the Tyra Banks show (that is too weird) I walked into the room to hear and see Coldplay on TV, it was nice but weird. Oh I forgot to tell you what Benjamin asked Michael for, a Playstation. How funny is that!!
List of things we already know that we would like for the family:
1. A bus and or a car = $15,000 (I know that is a lot but if you do not ask you do not receive)
2. Timex watches = (?) (The boys are in love with Michael’s watch, because it glows when you press the button)
That is all for now, I am sure we will tell you more soon.
We love you and we are exited about tomorrow and the next day and the next day and well you get the picture. Every day seems like a party, speaking of party Margaret’s birthday is on Saturday so fun will be hard by everyone. We can’t wait for our first church service at House of Hope. God is with these people. They know they are blessed and we know we are blessed. We have not taken any pictures yet, we figured we would have plenty of time for that.
Thursday:
On our way into the city we found ourselves out of gas on the side of the road. We took in the beautiful landscape and the cool air. The weather is amazing! It is about
65 degrees!
God bless all of you, and we miss you.
Love-
Michael & Tammi
The address we put was incorrect, here is the correct one:
House of Hope
c/o Michael & Tammi Rice
PO Box 66339
Nairobi, Kenya
We have a cell phone:
Calling from land line: 011 254 020 0720 133 104
Calling from mobile: 000 254 0720 133 104
That is a crazy long number!
Tuesday & Wednesday:
So much to talk about, my mind is going 90 to nothing. We are in love! Africa is amazing and we have not even seen that much of it. The children greeted us with songs and cake! We have been treated like kings and queens, we are so happy. The food is amazing, they have this cabbage and carrot dish that is to die for, I could eat it forever (lets hope I don’t get sick of it). So yeah, the kids are amazing, we sat and read (2X) “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.” The kids did all the reading and I just listened and held up the book. These kids are so smart, they are teaching us Swahili, we already feel like we have learned a lot! Margaret is amazing, she greeted us with hugs and kisses and we felt at home the moment we saw her. She is so wise and peaceful, the children love her so much. The landscape is much like west Texas, you can see hills and mountains in the background but the land is dry and the grass is yellow. You can see goat and sheep and the chamba (aka the garden) is amazing. Heather B. and Holden would be in Heaven there is lots of Spinich and everything is so fresh. Margaret said that sometimes you can see zebras and giraffes on the rough road to House of Hope. Everyone is so warm and we are going in to town soon! We are playing well with everyone!!! We miss you all very much but feel very much at home. We feel we may have packed to many clothes and too many shoes. Everyone here just wears flip-flops, who knew! Other things that you would not have ever thought of is that they have TV and they watch MTV (crazy) they watch the Tyra Banks show (that is too weird) I walked into the room to hear and see Coldplay on TV, it was nice but weird. Oh I forgot to tell you what Benjamin asked Michael for, a Playstation. How funny is that!!
List of things we already know that we would like for the family:
1. A bus and or a car = $15,000 (I know that is a lot but if you do not ask you do not receive)
2. Timex watches = (?) (The boys are in love with Michael’s watch, because it glows when you press the button)
That is all for now, I am sure we will tell you more soon.
We love you and we are exited about tomorrow and the next day and the next day and well you get the picture. Every day seems like a party, speaking of party Margaret’s birthday is on Saturday so fun will be hard by everyone. We can’t wait for our first church service at House of Hope. God is with these people. They know they are blessed and we know we are blessed. We have not taken any pictures yet, we figured we would have plenty of time for that.
Thursday:
On our way into the city we found ourselves out of gas on the side of the road. We took in the beautiful landscape and the cool air. The weather is amazing! It is about
65 degrees!
God bless all of you, and we miss you.
Love-
Michael & Tammi
posted by Michael & Tammi at 3:31 AM
2 Comments:
Message from Mike's mom:
When I tried to call (and you know I did!), I found there was a mistake in the phone # - just one extra zero.
If calling on land line – 011 254 720 133 104
If calling on mobile – 000 254 720 133 104
I talked to Michael briefly, twice, before I lost the connection. He told me I would need to learn to text message. I guess that will be less expensive for them and for us.
African Rice rocks!!! (haha, get it!)
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