May 26-May 31
I am going to have to sum up these days all together. Unfortunately, this lifestyle does not make for enough time to write each day... or if it does, I have yet to master the skill.
So... Thursday we had all of the Boona Banna kids over for mac n cheese and to watch "The Lion King". It was a lot of fun and they loved the movie. We taught them peaches and pits and it was so cute for them all to tell us their peach was to have dinner with us all. Cool kids! Near the end of the movie our Massai guard came in and watched a bit of the movie!! Anyone know about the Massai tribe? They are a nomadic tribe... so it was pretty funny to see one watching our movie that we projected on the wall. I also had a great talk with Cherie that I think I needed.
Friday was... great! Everyone went to the beach and I stayed home all alone and spent some time on the roof, read and tried to catch up on some course work. It was nice to be alone. That is one thing I miss out here! Having time to yourself is a rarity and usually does not last very long. In the evening we attended a play put on by HOPAC kids and faculty as a fundraiser for a playground(its a school). It was the sound of music and was so well done! For a moment, I forgot I was in Africa... lol It also reminded me how much I appreciate theatre and miss going to plays. That is on my list of things to do when I get home!
Saturday we went to slipway and spent a little time with Cherie before she left for Canada. Not all of us went, which is good cause I did not want to share my ice cream with everyone. :) Just kidding. The second half of the interns when to the play today while we were out and then in the evening everyone went out to watch the football game. I again stayed home and tried to work on course work.
Sunday was a good relaxing day. Again, course stuff... tried to take it easy and catch up on stuff I could not do during the week.
Monday was a good day. We showed up to volunteer at WFT and found ourselves locked out. We rang the bell, knocked on the door loudly with no response. After 10 minutes we decided we could call our driver back and go to meet up with the girls to do some work at slipway. Well, our driver was almost there when suddenly the guy opened the gate for us and so we had to go to work. Net sticks sucked. No one was there all morning. Brian did show up around lunch time and took us to the Bonjour gas station where there is this little red box burger joint and the burgers and fries were soo good. *note* They have these "line ups", if you can call them that, that to the blind eye would look like a disaster with no order whatsoever... and yet somehow there is order and it is fair. No idea how they do it! But koodos to them!
Tuesday we went to work again. This time we were only locked out for 5 minutes. Net sucked. Uber bad! We could not do ANYTHING. It was a not so successful day... in comparison to our "productive" days...:) but thats okay. It was all good. Orphanage day tomorrow! :) good thing too! I miss them
There we go. Summed up!
I am going to have to sum up these days all together. Unfortunately, this lifestyle does not make for enough time to write each day... or if it does, I have yet to master the skill.
So... Thursday we had all of the Boona Banna kids over for mac n cheese and to watch "The Lion King". It was a lot of fun and they loved the movie. We taught them peaches and pits and it was so cute for them all to tell us their peach was to have dinner with us all. Cool kids! Near the end of the movie our Massai guard came in and watched a bit of the movie!! Anyone know about the Massai tribe? They are a nomadic tribe... so it was pretty funny to see one watching our movie that we projected on the wall. I also had a great talk with Cherie that I think I needed.
Friday was... great! Everyone went to the beach and I stayed home all alone and spent some time on the roof, read and tried to catch up on some course work. It was nice to be alone. That is one thing I miss out here! Having time to yourself is a rarity and usually does not last very long. In the evening we attended a play put on by HOPAC kids and faculty as a fundraiser for a playground(its a school). It was the sound of music and was so well done! For a moment, I forgot I was in Africa... lol It also reminded me how much I appreciate theatre and miss going to plays. That is on my list of things to do when I get home!
Saturday we went to slipway and spent a little time with Cherie before she left for Canada. Not all of us went, which is good cause I did not want to share my ice cream with everyone. :) Just kidding. The second half of the interns when to the play today while we were out and then in the evening everyone went out to watch the football game. I again stayed home and tried to work on course work.
Sunday was a good relaxing day. Again, course stuff... tried to take it easy and catch up on stuff I could not do during the week.
Monday was a good day. We showed up to volunteer at WFT and found ourselves locked out. We rang the bell, knocked on the door loudly with no response. After 10 minutes we decided we could call our driver back and go to meet up with the girls to do some work at slipway. Well, our driver was almost there when suddenly the guy opened the gate for us and so we had to go to work. Net sticks sucked. No one was there all morning. Brian did show up around lunch time and took us to the Bonjour gas station where there is this little red box burger joint and the burgers and fries were soo good. *note* They have these "line ups", if you can call them that, that to the blind eye would look like a disaster with no order whatsoever... and yet somehow there is order and it is fair. No idea how they do it! But koodos to them!
Tuesday we went to work again. This time we were only locked out for 5 minutes. Net sucked. Uber bad! We could not do ANYTHING. It was a not so successful day... in comparison to our "productive" days...:) but thats okay. It was all good. Orphanage day tomorrow! :) good thing too! I miss them
There we go. Summed up!
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