Mzungu, mzungu....sweets?

Here's our "fan club" in Tala, Kenya! Every day on our way home from Nice View Academy we would stop at the kiosk in the backgroud for cabbage, spinach or whatever other produce item we needed at home. That in itself was different for us because we weren't used to stopping for food every day. Without electricity to refrigerate anything this is a way of life.

So any way, our fan club would always be on the look out for our vehicle. Not hard to spot since there are only a few autos in Tala and especially not hard with two whites (wazungu)! We would get out of the car and immediately hear "sweets, sweets?" This picture was taken at the beginning of our trip in 2008 when we weren't familar with the sweets concept. So I had granola bars in my bag and handed those out. I had to show the kids how to open them and that they were edible!

But once word got out that the wazungu would have sweets on hand the crowd kept getting bigger and bigger. What cuties they all are and a blessing for us to see them on a daily basis.

"We can do great things for the Lord if we are willing to do little things for others." (Our Daily Bread)