My visit with Kibet Day 3

Today is my second and last day with Kibet.  I leave tomorrow very early so I want to make the best of my last day that I have with him.  Today Kibet is going to teach me how to carve animals out of wood.  We have breakfast and then we go for a short walk around his house.  When we come back he takes me into the small tool shed behind his house where he keeps his carving stuff.  He opens a tool box with a bunch of whittling stuff and immediately I know that I'm going to suck at it.  I tell Kibet this but says that no one can be bad at carving.  Once we start I prove him wrong.  I decide to make a pig because it seems easy enough.  Kibet shows me how to hold the tools and which one to use for what.  Every single one of the tools feels awkward in my hands.  At first it seems easy and that maybe I won't be totally terrible at it but as my "pig" progresses it takes a turn for the worse.  In the end I have a piece of wood resembling a smaller one of what I started with and Kibet has a perfect wooden cow.  He holds it out to me and tells me that it is mine to keep.  I thank him and as a joke offer him my "pig".  He looks at me not getting the joke and thanks me sincerely for giving him my first carving.  After the carving disaster I go back inside the house and carefully tuck the cow into my suitcase.  I go back out into the main room and Kibet and I make dinner.  We are both super hungry because we missed lunch for our carving.  We eat and then we go outside to watch the sunset.  As I am sitting there I am happy to have helped Kibet.  It feels good to have made it possible for someone to get what they need to live happily.  And Kibet is one of the happiest people I know.  After the sun goes down we go back inside and go to sleep.  Kibet is going to wake up tomorrow and drive with me to the airport.  I am not looking forward to leaving and saying goodbye tomorrow.  I wish I could stay longer but above all I am just happy to have met my friend Kibet Peter.