Burning Cookies: 10-8

Today I chilled with Daniel. We visited the school at Mathare North and attended a new parents meeting. Since the whole thing was in Swahili, I was totally lost for almost 2 hours. I saw two kids sitting off to the side and joined them. The guard at the school told them that I was their teacher for today and that they had to listen to me. The kids were probably 4 years old. They didn’t know any English, so I kept them in line with my sweet Swahili skillz. I used “kuja” (come here), “twende” (let’s go), “Jina lako ni nani?” (what is your name), and “Jina langu ni Audrey” (my name is Audrey). After that awkward meeting, we walked over to the toilet project in Area 4A. I was impressed with the progress.

In the evening, we decided to watch another movie. We chose Spiderman 2 and Faith, Victory, and David joined us. It was so much fun. We decided to bake some cookies. This was a risky endeavor because the oven is crazy. Well, we put the first batch in the oven and went back to our movie. Tobey Maguire’s sweet comb over was interrupted by the smell of smoke coming from the kitchen. We rushed over and removed the pan of melted blackened cookie-like substances. Luckily we were more successful on the second and third batch.