I woke up around 8:30 am, ate breakfast and did some light paperwork
that day. Some of the kids went to a
tutor that was on site. The kids are out
of school all of April, but IAA hired extra tutors to help the kids advance
more. They are all about education! I had made file folder games and brought them
with me, so I gave them to the tutor who was with the younger kids. The kids loved them! They couldn’t really do the big math
problems, but the easier math ones they did with no problem. The
kids loved learning through games and the teacher said that she had never heard
of file folder games.
The next day was a painting day, so I helped the older girls
wash their walls for the paint to stick better.
They were not enthusiastic about washing walls; it was ‘tiring’ they
said. LOL.
After lunch some of the older kids took us to a waterfall
they heard of. We had to wear boots so
our shoes wouldn’t get ruined when we trampled through the muddy field to get
there. The first stop was a sort of
creek that had a mini rapid and mini waterfall.
After we saw that we kept walking until we got to a bigger waterfall
where the kids played in the water.
A few neighborhood kids came by to play with us, and we also
met a neighbor of IAA. He was super nice
and spoke a little bit of English. The
community kids loved to take pictures and then view themselves on my
camera. I mentioned it to someone later
that they loved taking pictures and they said that the kids don’t have mirrors
at home and that some of them have never seen themselves before. I guess if you can barely afford food, then a
mirror would be low on the priority list. :/
I asked the kids if they ever swam in the lake and they said
no there was scorpions in the pond. Scorpions? I wasn’t quite sure what they were talking
about, but I didn’t say anything. Later,
as we were walking back to IAA, we saw one dead in the muddy field. It wasn’t a scorpion though, it was a
crawfish. I guess they have only ever
seen them in pictures because a scorpion and crawfish and way different in size
(I’m sure some varieties are bigger) and the tales go opposite directions, but
basically if they were to just see a picture they would do look similar. They could not believe that in America we eat
them! Haha. I thought that was a funny story to share!
Dinner was burgers and homemade fries. I started peeling the potatoes while Tarin
cooked them, but the potato peeler did not work! I was so sad that I would have to use a knife
so I got Tarin to try to see if I was doing it wrong. She tried it and it worked! Now, being a lefty, I am used to being
discriminated against from appliances, but I was NOT expecting a right handed
only potato peeler while in Kenya! Lefties,
we need to unite for the poor souls in Kenya who are forced to use non left
hand appliances!
After dinner we played more games with the kids, mainly
brain teaser puzzles that I had brought with m, Rubix cubes, the triangle peg game,
etc.
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