More Volunteers and WWX
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Yesterday the voluneers arrived! There are 10 international and 7 from Kenya. Jackie from the US, Sarah from Ireland, Anta from India, Julia from Germany, Seong from South Korea, Martin from Ireland, Sam from Germany, and Morris from South Korea. There is alot of excitement over their coming...especially the children. Their first meal in Karago was thick Kitheri eaten out of our hands. I'm not sure they liked it so much. It was prepared by the women's group. And their welcoming ceremony was held in the field down below the school. Having them here makes me realize how comfortable I am here now. I can great people correctly finally and I know several children by name. Though there are always more that know me by name. I also visited Purity's house yesterday which was nice. I met her sister who is in form 2 of secondary and her brother who is form 4. They are a very happy family. I met with the volunteers very briefly that night and they had lots of questions about life in Karago.

Today school went well. I really like class 6. They participate alot and they are a small enough group that I can go from desk to desk. This afternoon I visited Charles from class 6. He lives up the hill from the school. His mom didn't know I was coming but it was nice anyway. They watched wrestling on TV plugged into another car batter) while I was there. Boys act the exact same way here as at home...it was really funny. They were all jumping and kicking and throwing punches in the air mimicking the wrestlers on TV. They knew all their names and would bellow out their chants. It was quite hysterical. The battery was dying toward the end of the episode so they banged on the TV to straighten the picture.

I also understand how the US is portrayed to these people. The little that they hear of our country is of WWX wrestling, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, and Paris Hilton. They hear of these rediculous stories but have no comprehension of the culture surrounding these extreme exceptions. They must really think we are crazy.