I cannot actually believe it, we have already been in Kenya for 1 month! It has absolutely flown by, it definitely doesn't feel like we've been here this long! Still having the time of my life, loving every single minute of my time out here! Im currently sat in our house at Msambweni with only 3 days left here feeling quite sad that on friday we will have to leave all the children who we have grown so close to! Working at Msambweni Primary School has been amazingg, although our time here has gone so quickly, we have managed to get so much done and I feel like we've really made a difference, we've just got 3 days left to finish off the work that still needs to be done, which is quite a lot but I'm sure we will manage it!! I haven't done an update in a couple of weeks so I will briefly go through what we've been up to since I last posted...
Ali and I have been teaching one particular class at the primary school quite a few times now, we've been teaching them mainly maths but some english, and I didn't think I'd enjoy teaching them so much, it is a challenge at some times as some pupils don't understand but it is such a rewarding experience when the kids come up to you at the end of the lesson to thankyou and when they actually understand it! I'm very impressed with how well they all speak English, and how fascinated by us but how grateful they are that we are hear to help them. Aside from the teaching, I've been doing a dance class for the past week which has been so much fun, they've been teaching me some african dances whilst I've taught them a street routine which they have picked up so well, they were so excited and happy, it really made it all worthwhile, they are so good we are performing it to the whole school this week before we leave... which will be slightly scary.
So the past couple of weeks has been lots of hands on work, we finished off the plastering off our classroom, starting whitewashing all the walls, painting the classroom sky blue and lime green (which looks awesome) digging holes and planting lots of trees (very hard work!!) Normally, we only work until about 11 in the morning because its so hot so we spend the rest of our days chilling and relaxing and swimming on the gorgeous which is a 2 minute walk away. We've also been on some horrendous bike rides and some better bike rides, we've been to watch the kids in their sports day playing football and winning!! It just really feels like home here, I don't think any of us want to leave!! As well as working hard at work, we've also had a couple of really good weekends that I want to mention since I last posted. Last weekend, we went to mombasa, spent far too much money on eating out and matatus(local transport), we had some really nice meals, which makes a change to the food we eat everyday at the house, we spent the whole day saturday at mombasa waterpark which was such good fun, everyone got really burnt, it was so sunny, we went bowling aswell, got stuck in mombasa on sunday because the matatu driver had an accident.
This weekend has also been really good, we went to the popular tourist resort of Diani Beach where there were lots of mzungus (white people), the beach was so nice so we spent a lot of time there, then we went to the famous forty theives beach bar and friday night, we all had such a good time, Finn got bitten by a cat on our way out!! It could only happen to Finn, hes already got electrocuted and stung by a jellyfish!! After some really good weekends, we always looked forward to coming "home" to Msambweni!!
I'm also really loving the food out here, on our break times at work we have Mandazis which are just small snacks, but they are really nice, I also love the chapatis, but I'm getting a bit sick of rice, we eat it alllll the time!! Another reason I don't want to finish this project is because of Samson, I don't know how we're going to manage without him, he's like our best friends, hes one of us, although I won't miss him being on the phone all day!!
Anyway my time has run out on the computer, so will update as soon as I can!!
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