Our first week in Sudan

Hi Everyone...things are continuing to go great here in Kajo Keji, Sudan. We are feeling at home here and have full days of work. We wake up each morning to the sounds of children and animals outside our hut and head over to the babies. We help the toddlers brush their teeth, feed the infants, and get all the kids ready for breakfast. After helping them drink their porridge we clean them up and dress them for the day. You would never guess what we are doing here...teaching preschool! Weird huh? We have a cute bunch of Sudanese kiddos who love to learn though and they are so excited to learn the letters of the alphabet and the sounds. The children don't speak English, so it's sometimes interesting, but we do just fine. We are learning the song, "head, shoulders. knees and toes" and they love it! Tomorrow we are working on painting cards that will be sold in the states for money for the orphanage.
After preschool we help the kids eat lunch, bathe them and put them down for naps. We head up to our hut and eat lunch and have some time in the afternoon to do various other tasks before the littles wake up. We have been organizing medical books for all of the 50 or so children here and have weighed them all as well. There is a lot to do here and we love projects so we stay pretty busy cleaning, sorting, organizing, and doing other things during nap time. In the afternoons we have enjoyed spending time with the older kids doing art project type things or putting ring worm cream on their heads, you know just fun stuff like that. All of the kids here are great and we love them!!!
Yesterday we went to a Leper colony to deliver food and supplies to people with Leprosy. When we arrived people were singing and clapping and we all sat down and introduced ourselves. The people were old and so sweet. They had very visible signs of leprosy including fingers and toes missing and disfiguration. Either way they are more people to love!
We hope to get some pics up soon of the great kids and the amazing scenery here. We are in the middle of the bush as they call it, just dry land full of sand and mud huts everywhere. Close your eyes and picture what you think Africa to look like...we live there. We are so blessed! God continues to give us amazing experiences and connects with awesome people. We have so much to be thankful for!