This is the view of Nazaret from my room.
After breakfast we headed over to the W.A.R. spa day! We washed, scrubbed, lotioned, and painted the women's feet and hands. Mannys and Pedis! They loved it! It was so great watching them get pampered and loved on. Having lived such hard lives I know it was nice to have people loving on them in the way they needed to be. The way they deserved to be. They were all just so excited. I painted nails and some of the women wanted their nails clipped. Gross!.... the selfish part of me pretended to ignore the request, but in the end I got suckered into it. Some of those nails were DE-SCUSTING! I know they needed it and the last thing I wanted them to see was me being descusted by their feet. So I grinned and bared it.
Lunch was at Sister's Cafe. We had spaghetti there. It was alright... I would be okay if I didn't have spaghetti for the rest of the year. I feel like we've had it a lot.... It's funny thinking back to my last meal before I left to come here... Susan cooked me spaghetti :)
After lunch some of us rode the bajaj's. In mine it was me, Michael, and Abi the bus driver's assistant/bus guard. I'm not really sure what exactly Abi does but he's always around, and he's not that big of a guy to guard anything. In fact... he's not that much bigger than me. He is friends with all the translators though. Michael got to drive the bajaj down one of the roads. Somewhat a scary experience, but fun non the less. We rode the bajaj from Sister's Cafe back to W.A.R. It as a blast. So fun! I did however think that we were going to die a few times, or run into a horse or roaming goat (that had street smarts), but all was good.
When we got back to W.A.R. we started the next activity for the day. Washing hair!! Su, Hannah, Julia, and Emily washed hair. I put in the olive oil lotion designed specifically for their type of hair. Danielle helped me with that. Some of the women had weaves in their hair and made it harder to rub it in. I kind of had a hard time not laughing at that whole situation. Christy and Brittany did facials for the women. We all joined in on the facial fun as well. Such a fun day.
Some of the women weren't there earlier today for the manicures and pedicures so we did all that for them as well. I painted one of the ladies toes and nails, and after I was done she wanted to do mine. It was a bonding moment. So sweet. She was loved and pampered and wanted to give back. All these women are so special and loving. I am just so proud of them for making the steps to have a better life, not only for themselves but for their precious kids. We see their kids everyday as well at the W.A.R. facility. Some of them cling to their mom all day. We play out in the facility yard with them while their moms are dong fun stuff with us and getting pampered.
It was a great day, but very exhausting. We all went back to the hotel and chilled out until dinner. Dinner was at the usual place, Rift Valley Hotel across the street, we found out that the Rift Valley had internet access. I checked my email a little but that was it.... Oh yeah, and I looked up Project 61 to see if I could find Deborah on there to sponsor. They didn't have a list of kids to be sponsored but they did have an email to contact about it. I am going to look further into in when I get back home. I don't really want to get on the internet anymore while I'm here. I just don't feel the need for it much anymore.
Sammy getting his facial.
The kids joined in on some of the fun.
Surafel washing hair.
Alex being claimed by one of the ladies :)
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