Kitale Museum

Kitale Museum  Feb 18

120 3 and 4 year olds traveled to Kitale to visit the museum today, and I went with them. I couldn’t believe 120 kids could fit into that bus, but they all got in and we went to town. I wasn’t sure we would actually make it there and back without a emergency.  Not only did we go, no one was lost, no one got hurt, no one started any arguments, and all 120 kids got back to Legacy Schools in one piece. We saw tortoise’s, 2 crocodiles (Nile River no less) and artifacts from Kenya’s history. The kids even got to go into a traditional home of 1st wife and 2nd wife. For lunch they all got to drink a soda, Fanta Orange (yuck) and 3 slices of bread (doesn’t that sound yummy?) Me, I drank a coke. 

The museum itself is part of the national Kenyan museum, but it’s not all that great of a museum. I do realize that my idea of a museum comes from being exposed to the museums in the Bay Area in California as a kid and a young adult, so my expectations of a visit to a museum is quite high. I did have a good time.  I got so close to a crocodile I was literally a foot from it. Now that was cool.  I got to hold one of the tortoises and I saw with my own eyes a black mamba snake. One bit from it and you die in 3 minutes, so they say. Some cool stuff there.  Next week on Friday I’m off to the Kitale Nature Reserve with the pre-unit and grade 1. Should be fun. (pre unit is basically Kindergarten).