It's hard to believe 2/3rds of the trip is over. The past 3 weeeks, the middle section, has been great. We got a lot of tiring construction work done, and the main physical parts left to finish are the plastering an the adding of the mesh.
We're leaving in a couple of hours for the school, but first I've got to go meet with some Aid organization that gets money from different countries' embassies. They can give between 5 million and 100 million shillings ($4,000-$80,000 USD), and apparently some pressure from an American would be helpful. Hopefully that'll go well.
Over the past few weeks I've been playing soccer very day with the guys at school. I played like 13 years ago in middle school, but I was never much good and haven't gotten any better. It's still fun though, and gives me a chance to get a good wrkout. I feel fitter than I have in some time, think I'll make a habit of this. They have a new teacher who's also a soccer coach, and he tells me I'm really good. I knew he didn't mean my ball-handling skills, but he explained what he meant was he was surprised a guy my size could stay in the game for 90 minutes every day. So that was encouraging.
I feel like we're getting to really know some of the students and they have a olot of trust now. This weekend while in Dar one of them took us to his house, which was cool. All the students at the school are chosen based on need, so you can imagine he lives in pretty tight quarters.
Well, in less than three weeks I'll be on my way back to the US. I'm sure it'll be hard to leave the people here, much as I miss those of you in the US.
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