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Vickie in Elsamere and Crescent Island (CFS)

While we face many challenges here in the missions field, we also reap many blessings. One of the biggest blessing to us is the great school that the girls attend : Rosslyn Academy. It started many years ago as a missionary school to cater for the needs of the missionaries' kids. The school has since grown and it is now one of the best schools here in Nairobi. We are very grateful for the quality education that our girls are getting.

One of the highlight of the school year is CFS (Cultural Field Studies). The kids get to camp out someplace in the country to learn more about the country they live in. This year, the 7th graders went to Elsamere Park and Crescent Island. You can tell from the photos that they had a great time!

They visited a local school and played soccer with the kids. Sports is such great way for kids to get together!

These are dung critters..having a feast, I suppose....eewwwww...

Miss Gac, she's a great teacher and Vickie loves her! She taught Kathryn too.

Hippos..they are one of my favorite animals...they always look so comical...too bad, I wasn't
there :-))

More Hippos ...on the way to Crescent Island


Vickie told me that she got to be real close to the giraffes...it was an awesome experience for her. She says she was about ten feet away from them...


My baby...so grown up...

They also saw some dead (very dead) animals...

Graceful giraffe.



Camp fire at night

With bestfriend from Ukraine, Anastasia

Best friend from America, Claire


Dead animal....:-( and half eaten :-((
A phyton hole....excuse me, where is the Phyton?????

Needless to say she had a great time. Vickie is real animal lover so it was especially fun for her. She return from this trip and packed for another one at Mt Kenya with us, more pictures soon....

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Anonymous said…
they aren't dung critters!! they're dung beetles!! they roll pieces of dung together to make a home or sumthing..lol
October 18, 2008 at 2:50 AM
Sharon said…
Wow. What an experience! I couldn't imagine. Seeing hippos and giraffes in the wild. Again, wow.

A long, long time ago, when I was in the 6th grade, our grade had a week of "Outdoor Education." Sounds kinda similar to Vickie's experience. But I can guarantee it was nothing like Vickie's experience from what she saw. :0)

As for the dung beetles, well... I could pass on seeing those, and a PYTHON hole!! Ah, no thanks!

~Sharon~
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October 18, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Christine Phang said…
LOL! what do i know about dung beetles???

sharon, you should come see us some time and we can get you close to the animals and even feed a giraffe! seriously!
October 22, 2008 at 1:29 PM
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