6:00 AM: wake up to my alarm clock or Andrea coming in and telling me i've slept in too late. roll out of bed to eat a slice of white bread with jam and drink a cup of joe
6:30 AM: out the door with Anniken and Andrea. walk up the street to where the "bus" comes and picks us up with only a few students in the bus which is actually a minivan that would normally fit 8 people. we fit about 30 small children into the damn thing. bounce down the road. pick up a few more kids.
7:00 AM: get out of the bus around a banana patch and walk with 3 other teachers thru a maze of funny shack houses, bananas and cement gardens. the walk is just over 45 minutes. mzungu is yelled at almost every corner. mzungu means white person. we are just the only white people on that side of town. ive never seen another there yet.
7:45 AM: arrive at school. sit and watch the students play on the "swing set". the swing set is a bar with chains on it that the kids tie together and then sit on their backpacks as a cushion. many play animals in the grass in front of the school.
8:00 AM: the kids all line up and do morning exercises, tell stories to the school in english, sing their school song and pray. then we all go into class and start teaching. they learn english, math, science, vocational skills, handwriting, and kiswahili.
8:30 AM: the kids from the bus arrive and being to catch-up.
10:15 AM: break time. the kids get a cup of porridge and we teaches leave the class to enjoy a cup of sugar tea and either 2 massive fried mendazi rolls each or 4 pieces of white bread each. its too much but we can't say no. it would be too rude. class starts up again at 11.
12:15 or 12:30 PM: we get into the bus again with the baby school and head back to down town. we are dropped off at a dala stop and catch a dala back to down. the trip takes about 25 minutes. we either take it to the dala station and catch another to go home for lunch with mama or we then get off and walk to get lunch at another spot in town. then we nap or read.
we could stay until 4 and get home at 6 but normally we just do the mornings because the kids mainly do kiswahili after class and one of the employed teachers teaches that due to our lack of swahili.
once home we normally now run up and down mama's driveway, nap, read or go to the internet cafe. its a nice way to end an always hectic morning.
6:00 PM: mama serves dinner. it is always good. it is always a lot but what can you do. its africa.
then we normally read more. talk. talk to people on skype.
9:00 PM: we are normally in bed by now passing out. this day wears me out every time. its nice tho.
6:30 AM: out the door with Anniken and Andrea. walk up the street to where the "bus" comes and picks us up with only a few students in the bus which is actually a minivan that would normally fit 8 people. we fit about 30 small children into the damn thing. bounce down the road. pick up a few more kids.
7:00 AM: get out of the bus around a banana patch and walk with 3 other teachers thru a maze of funny shack houses, bananas and cement gardens. the walk is just over 45 minutes. mzungu is yelled at almost every corner. mzungu means white person. we are just the only white people on that side of town. ive never seen another there yet.
7:45 AM: arrive at school. sit and watch the students play on the "swing set". the swing set is a bar with chains on it that the kids tie together and then sit on their backpacks as a cushion. many play animals in the grass in front of the school.
8:00 AM: the kids all line up and do morning exercises, tell stories to the school in english, sing their school song and pray. then we all go into class and start teaching. they learn english, math, science, vocational skills, handwriting, and kiswahili.
8:30 AM: the kids from the bus arrive and being to catch-up.
10:15 AM: break time. the kids get a cup of porridge and we teaches leave the class to enjoy a cup of sugar tea and either 2 massive fried mendazi rolls each or 4 pieces of white bread each. its too much but we can't say no. it would be too rude. class starts up again at 11.
12:15 or 12:30 PM: we get into the bus again with the baby school and head back to down town. we are dropped off at a dala stop and catch a dala back to down. the trip takes about 25 minutes. we either take it to the dala station and catch another to go home for lunch with mama or we then get off and walk to get lunch at another spot in town. then we nap or read.
we could stay until 4 and get home at 6 but normally we just do the mornings because the kids mainly do kiswahili after class and one of the employed teachers teaches that due to our lack of swahili.
once home we normally now run up and down mama's driveway, nap, read or go to the internet cafe. its a nice way to end an always hectic morning.
6:00 PM: mama serves dinner. it is always good. it is always a lot but what can you do. its africa.
then we normally read more. talk. talk to people on skype.
9:00 PM: we are normally in bed by now passing out. this day wears me out every time. its nice tho.
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