My Braeburn Business

I have a business with some kids in my class. I am in a club called the Young Enterprise Club. We have it every Wednesday after school (for an activity at school). Our business is a lemonade stand called Lemonade Love, and our slogan is "keep calm and love lemonade".  I designed this poster on my computer. We had to do lots of stuff before we could start selling. We had to a whole lot of work first. We had to do stuff like, find out what our name will be,  and what ingredients we needed to make the lemonade and stuff like that.  One day after school we finally got to open. We did sell and we sold it great. We had lots of people in line for the lemonade.  We sold out in 30 minutes and made over 5000 shillings profit! We are going to give all the money to charity. We are going to sell again at the school Christmas fair.

Rounders in Niarobi

About a week ago me and my friends went to Nairobi to play in the Hillcrest Rounders tournament. For those of you who don't know,  Rounders is a sport that is kind of like softball, but you don't use mitts.  We stayed in a hotel called, Bush Camp. In my room there was two bunk beds and two beds. We were super crammed in a room. The day of the tournament we went to Hillcrest the school to play four different schools. The first school we played was Braeburn Nairobi. We won them by a half a rounder (a rounder is a point). The second school we played was Brook House.  We were loosing in the beginning,  but in the end Elaine hit the ball really far.  She ran right into someone, slipped, did a summersault, and hit fourth post. Plus, she scored a rounder and a half for the other time causing obstruction. We ended up winning them by one rounder!  The third school we played was Peponi. Sadly, we lost to them, but in the end they won the whole tournament. So we knew they were a really tough school. The fourth school we played was Pembroke.  We only lost to them by three rounders so it wasn't a huge loss, but they were also a really tough school. In the end, we all got cool rounders t-shirts with all of the schools on them. I really loved spending time with my friends and I'm looking forward to next years rounders tournaments.        

The Priesthood is Legit

So last Sunday received the great present of the Priesthood.  I haven't really used the priesthood yet, but I will.  I will get to when I get to pass out the sacrament at church. It is more than that, the Priesthood is the power and authority to act in God's name.  Now that is awesome.  You may think it is just some invisible thing they are magically sticking in my head, but I am telling you it's not.  It's a blessing.  So I can start being called a deacon and use the power and authority to act in God's name, and that is legit. 

The day we got our stuff from America / aka: (heaven)

So on Friday I got home from school all excited and ready for the stuff.  My dad's friend came from America and he brought us 5 bags full of stuff from America.  When I walked in, my dad showed me through all the stuff.  What I got was a bag of candy from Granny and a skim board from my mom and a fourth generation waterproof case, even though my iPod is 5 generation. Oh well, I gave it to Alta. All of the rest of the stuff was for Eve and Alta and Mom and Dad. I tried skim boarding on the weekend and it is hard! I can only go like four inches but I am trying.  I ate like four pieces of candy and now saving it.  Everett already ate all of his candy.  My mom got lots of candy sent too, but we are using it for gift bags for my birthday.  I am excited to share all this American candy with my friends.  It was exciting to see all the stuff.  My mom was the most excited.

A Happy African Halloween

It's Halloween and the Fairbourne's had a great time. We made our costumes at the very last moment. I was a headless man, Alta was a zombie bride, and Porter was a head on a plate.  Everybody thought my costume was awesome!  I know that because everyone would say "hey can I get your picture " or "oh my gosh, that's creepy" also " I thought that was real!" and stuff like that. Alta's was freaky good. She looked as scary as real zombie, I even saw a little girl look at her and run away in fright. Porter's was awesome! It had salad around his neck to make it look like dinner, and under his costume was a zombie costume so he had two costumes.
We had a party at our school. there were games, food, and drinks. but I had to take off my costume to play the games. The school was going to do a contest of the best costumes and I won!
 Later that night there was a Halloween Party by the pool at our apartment.  It was all decorated for Halloween, and everyone brought Halloween food.  We hit a piñata that looked like a pumpkin, but it wouldn't break.  Then we went trick-or-treating..  The trick and treating was not the same! It was boring. We had to stay in a straight line and be quiet to get candy. I thought there wasn't going to be any trick or treating in Africa, but I guess there is.  Petronilla, our housekeeper, never heard of Halloween and she thought it was really weird that we dressed up so scary. I hoped you guys had a Happy Halloween too!

Alta's marching the Halloween Parade

Everett Marching in the Braeburn Halloween Parade

Back to the Shamba La Salama

Shamba la Salama

  I don't know if I told you about how we got to go to my grandma's house called, the Shamba in Africa.  We lived there before we could move in to the house that we live in now.  Well we got to go back to the Shamba with my family and all the people that are working on my dad's business.  On Friday I woke up (thinking it was Friday) I did everything I had to do like any other day.  Then I went to school and got ready for my big assembly.  After that...  instead of staying at school my mom took us to . . . . THE SHAMBA!!!!!!!!! I didn't want to go because I was going to do fun stuff at school, but I had to. It was a boring, long ride there and when we got there I was so bored! but later that day, everyone went to the beach. There was a girl named Rachel (she works with my Dad) and she didn't like going in the water like me.  So I got a coconut and she got some sticks and we built a coconut bowling ally. I made the gutters and she made the pathway. it was finished and it was awesome.  After that we played it for a long time.  It felt like real bowling!  

Then we ate and I went to sleep inside a tent with Porter. 

The next day, I was so excited to go back to the beach, but this time to coconut bowl. When we went back out to coconut bowl, my dad also brought a kite, a huge kite. I couldn't bowl in the same place because of the kite. so we had  to do it sideways. That wasn't as fun.

but after that they buried me alive.  No, I mean they dug a hole and put me in it and turned me into a muscle man! Then it got late and we went to sleep. The next day we left.  It was more fun then I expected it to be.

West Gate Attack

About a month ago, Westgate (which is a name of a big mall in Nairobi) was attacked by group of people called the Al Shabaab.  They went in with huge guns into the Nakumett stores and started to shoot.  They kept hostages in there for about five days. The person which made this happen is a woman called the white widow. When I heard this news for the first time, it was about a month ago. It shocked me that someone would do such a thing. At school at the assemblies the teachers would give a moment of silence for those who died.  My cousins were going to come to Kenya and visit, but because of the Westgate attack, they decided not to come because their dad was worried is wasn't going to be safe. I was really sad when my cousins weren't coming, because I know its safe here.  I think it was only a one time thing in Kenya (that means you America you're their next target) I feel really safe were I am living now, but I don't feel so safe in Nakumett anymore (by the way Nakumett is a grocery store like Wal-Mart) or on the streets. My life hasn't really changed since the attacks.  Everyone seemed to be worried at home, but I wasn't worried, I was just sad. Kenya is a really nice place and I'm not afraid of dying so why not just live life how it is.