I have just bought a Kenyan sim card for the equivalent of 50p. Last night we had no electricity in our unit and the family are away, and so is the housegirl Anne who cooks for us, so it was just us four volunteers who had to fend for ourselves. There was no food in […]
School has been great; on Friday I took my first class by myself and taught class 6 geography. I told them about different countries in the world, and they were interested in where places like Italy and the Philippines were so I showed them on the (partially-deflated and wobbly) blow-up globe that I found when […]
So I have arrived in Kenya, and met my lovely host family. I’m living in Kitengela, a small, rapidly growing town about 30km (19 miles) south of Nairobi. Today was my first day at school. It was overwhelming meeting the kids as they all attached themselves to me and took me off to classrooms 1-4 […]