Tuesday

Tuesday Feb 22

Today I woke up on time but didn’t get out of bed right away. Sometimes just listening to the sounds of the farm early in the morning is so comforting I just can’t get up and leave those sounds behind. I hear that stupid bull making noises on the other side of the fence and then the rooster crows every 5 minutes. Then I can hear Christie as she is sweeping the yard out front, and the voices of the people who work on the farm as well as Nelson telling someone to do something. 

I shouldn’t have stayed in bed as long as I did because Tuesday is my early day at Legacy and I have a class at 9am.  As it was I made it to class on time only to find out they were taking an exam. I swear these kids take more exams than Carter’s got Pills!!

So I went to talk to Mama Steve (Mary Muttai) and when I got there her son Steve was in the office talking to her. After Steve left Mama Steve and I talked about different stuff and I told her that last week was hard because I was so homesick. She understood, and told me that it is OK to be homesick. This woman works so hard for the school and it’s been 2 years since her husband died suddenly and she does all of the school administrative stuff. She is an amazing woman. 

After I left school I came home and made my bed because Christie took the sheets off to wash. Then I ironed a bunch of my clothes. Here in Kenya you iron everything. UGG It doesn’t matter what it is, you iron it PERIOD. Well there are a few things I will not iron, one being my tank tops that I wear to bed. NOPE I will not iron one. Edna insists that they should be ironed but I tell here I’m not wearing it outside the house so what purpose does ironing it have? HA she didn’t have a good answer for that one. 

At 3pm I headed over to the secondary school to teach the form 1 students. I read to them a short story because they don’t have the book. Next time I think I’ll copy the story and then print off 30 copies and they can share. I think it will be easier for the kids to understand the story and me. 

OH and I used my umbrella for the first time today. The rainy season is almost upon us and I’ll be using my umbrella a lot in the near future.