Drinking Chocolate

January 5, 2011 Drinking Chocolate 

First real day of teaching here in Kenya. Great kids, all 26 of them. Very polite and respectful.  I’m in the dinning hall drinking hot chocolate, or drinking chocolate as the Kenyan’s call it.  I just finished talking to some other teachers here and they are really nice folks. Funny too! Well they think I’m funny at least. 

I found out that my luggage that was lost will be here on Saturday. YEAH I’m so very happy.  I just hope all of my stuff that is in there is still there.  

So I was walking to school today and Edna was with me, and she waved down a friend to give me a ride to school. Edna is Alice’s daughter and she does so much for me. She washes my clothes, cleans my room even after I clean it, and remakes my bed everyday. I told her she doesn’t have to do all of that, but she says it is the way in Kenya and that she is happy to do things for me. Anyway, I told her I wanted to walk, but I guess walking is only reserved for those who have no form of transportation, which is silly in my mind.  I would prefer to walk to and from school.  It gives me some time to reflect and it’s good for my health as well.  

Yesterday here at school I had to use the toilet, but Mary Muttai was not here so I had to use the hole in the ground. YES I peed in a hole in the ground. Believe me I was not prepared to pee in the hole.  But Mary later told me that I can use her toilet. Thank the Lord above.

Edna has a 4 month old little girl. I think I’ll buy something for Michelle that she needs so Edna won’t spend the money on it. 

The school here needs books for the library. So if you are reading this start thinking about how we can collect new books for this school.  I’ll be looking into where we can ship them to and how much it will cost.