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| Preform Student Kipara by his Boma. He's in my woodworking club! |
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| Form 2 Student Solomon looking very Maasai. |
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| Students battling it out in intramural football. |
Exams
This entire week we’ve been doing Form 4 national exams and
an internal Form 2 mock examination. To
say the least it’s been a lot of work. Every morning I pick up Thomas, the exam
proctor and two armed guards at 7 AM to take the actual exams out to the school. Students are tested all day. The form 4’s
still have another week of this fun too! Spirits seemed to be high the whole
week.
Fish & Frogs
As a part of the exam, students taking biology, agriculture,
chemistry and physics have to do a laboratory practical. The biology one involved A LOT of prep work
to find specimens, etc… This week alone
we’ve had to find (and kill) frogs (thank you to our local motorcycle taxi
driver on that one), cockroaches (no comment), fish (bought at local market,
almost made Lisa vomit…) and crabs (preserved in some salt…stunk like
death…stored in our freezer…didn’t end up using them anyway!).
Clubs
We started clubs this
past Thursday. I’m excited to be doing WOODWORKING club again! One of
the volunteers did a fundraiser and was willing to pay for the wood, etc… so we
can do that this term. Lisa is doing
BASKETBALL club with the new pre-form students too and apparently they are
loving it.
Andy & Ming Say
Goodbye
Computer teachers Andy & Ming fly out today. In their 6
month stay, they’ve set up the computer lab and taught classes. They’re heading
back to Cambodia to continue their work there.
Sports
The boys and girls are part of a soccer league. So, every
Saturday we load up and take them somewhere to play. Yesterday, Saturday, Lisa
took the girls and Mzee took the boys.
They learn a lot.
Drip-line Irrigation
Brady and I went to a short presentation about drip-line
irrigation yesterday. IT WAS AWESOME. I can’t wait to figure out how to get a
system up and going at the school. There is so much potential I think for this.
As per usual though, we need to find where to get the systems, get some
funding, etc…! Never a lack of ideas.
No more Laguna Beach
House Study Camp
For the past several weeks all of the female volunteers have
been staying at the school Monday through Thursday nights with the Form 4
girls. They called it Laguna Beach House Study Camp. I think it’s really helped the girls have
precious time/location with which to study. It’s also nearly exhausted the
female staff. So, with the near completion of the Form 4 exams, we all said
good-bye to the study camp. I think it will be a bit of a welcome relief.
Lots to celebrate, no energy to do it!
By Friday of this week we had a LOT to celebrate! We had
successfully pulled of most of the Form 4 exams (including ¼ of the
practicals), offered reviews, finished a several month long project in LBH
study camp, held school improvement meetings, taught the rest of the kids and
did the normal great things that happen here.
However, it was one of those weeks that no one had the energy required
to do the celebrating! The thing which we were celebrating was to much! We’ll
have to wait for another day. Or some Red Bull.
