Week 6 and Going Strong

Hello to Everyone on behalf of everyone,

I believe that I am the only one to write an update this week, so I will write a summary of the week. We are teaching at a school called Athinai (named after Athens, Greece). Athinai is a school of over 600 students so we will be teaching the entire school over the span of two weeks. This past week we taught form 3's and form 4's. Next week we will be teaching forms 1 and 2. Again the students were amazing in the classroom, they were all engaged in the lesson everyday and were willing to participate.

Monday was a holiday in Kenya, to celebrate when Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of the Republic of Kenya. So we were unable to teach at Athinai on Monday. Instead we will be going to do our last lesson with the students this afternoon. I'm really looking forward to this because we will have a little bit more time than we usually have so it will give us a good chance to interact with the students and allow us to teach some topics that may otherwise have been left out.

Athinai is only about a 45 minute drive from our house, which has provided all of us with some extra free time, as all the previous schools have taken at least an hour to get to and previous blog posts will attest to. Also Vanice was able to rejoin the team this week as she had been at home with her mother for 20 days. It was great to have her positive energy around the house and she joined up with Ng'ok and I to form a teaching team. Deirdre (Dre) joined Reuben and Shauna to form another dynamite trio.

The return of Vanice also marked our BNI/GNI (Boys night in/girls night in). This was where we separated into boys and girls to do gender related activities. The boys played cards, while the girls plotted to prank the boys. Of course the boys were aware of this plot, but out of courtesy allowed the girls to continue. The girls told us that they had prepared a song for us and that we would need to come outside to listen to them sing. We were very skeptical and as they sang the boys were all watching their backs. Not surprisingly the girls had buckets of water prepared to pour on us. As soon as they tried to get us, the boys all ran. This sparked an hour long water fight between the boys and the girls. All in all it was quite a fun evening.

So it is with great excitement that we prepare for our last day with the form 3's and 4's and we anticipate another wonderful week with the form 1's and 2's. Athinai has been a very welcoming school and has truly been a pleasure to work with. Everyone here in Nakuru says hi and you can look forward to more updates next weekend.

David