“A Snake Under My Bed.”
We have a donated DVD player and TV at Neema House Arusha in the big kid’s room and the Montana women (some pictured below) 
brought “Jungle Book” which the kids love. There is always lots of clapping and jumping up and down when we put on that movie. Their favorite scene in the movie is the elephant walk when Mowgli is trying to march like the elephants.
A few days ago one of the nannies brought little Joycie out to the foyer where I was sitting and feeding one of our little babies. The nanny said, “Joycie wants Babu to check under her bed for a snake.”
“Really,” I said. Joycie with head down looking up through her eyelashes said “Nyoka kitanda.” 
So Babu Michael takes her hand and they walk down the hall to the back bedroom where she points under the bed in the corner. Michael gets on his knees and searches all around saying, “Ona, hakuna Nyoka, Joycie.”(See there is no Snake). Finally Joycie was satisfied and ran off to play. She was sure Mowgli’s snake from the Jungle Book movie was under her bed. Little kids are just the same wherever they live aren’t they.
It was reminiscent of the time back in the 60s when the workers at the Chimala Hospital 
in Southern Tanzania, came to tell Michael there was a snake under the bed, but this time there really was! Michael, then 20 years old, (Yes, that’s him at 20 to the right) flipped out the knife he carried strapped to his ankle, stepped on the cobra and sliced its head off. At which the Africans ran out of the room howling!
in Southern Tanzania, came to tell Michael there was a snake under the bed, but this time there really was! Michael, then 20 years old, (Yes, that’s him at 20 to the right) flipped out the knife he carried strapped to his ankle, stepped on the cobra and sliced its head off. At which the Africans ran out of the room howling!
But alas for those of you worried about encountering wild animals when you come to visit Neema, the goats who walk each morning down the dirt road in front of our house is about all the animals you will see when you come to big city of Arusha.
Colton Carney from Nacogdoches made it to Arusha and is now heading up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa. Make it to the top, Colton!!
Colton will return from the climb next week and then spend 3 weeks volunteering at Neema. He will be here when the group from Pepperdine University gets here. That should be fun! It will be just like old times at the Yellow House in Nacogdoches, having a lot of college kids around!
We have 49 babies at Neema now and 5 of them are teeny tiny little ones like the four pictured to the left. 
One of the little ones is in the hospital in NICU and could use your prayers right now. His name is Imran, pictured below with Bekah. His mom died of AIDs and the doctor put him on the medicine for that which may have been too toxic for him.
One of the little ones is in the hospital in NICU and could use your prayers right now. His name is Imran, pictured below with Bekah. His mom died of AIDs and the doctor put him on the medicine for that which may have been too toxic for him.
Please be praying for this little guy. He is 2 months old and barely weighs five pounds.
And with 49 babies in the house please be praying for all of us!
Blessings,
Dorris