Boom Chica Boom
Thursday, August 2, 2007

We decided to go to Embu on Friday (tomorrow) instead of today so now I will try to be printed very quickly before we leave. It took 4 hours to print my hair in corn rows the first time and rasta style takes even longer. Plus of course Mrs. Njeru has her own work and family to take care of so it is a long process.

Today was the last day of school and it was nice to see all of the best students in each class be recognized for their hard work. The top tree students in each grade level (class or standard) were called up by their class teacher and awarded a pencil and notebook. I was surprised at some of the top 3's. It was interesting because in the younger classes (1-4) it was mostly girls in the top 3 whereas in the older classes the boys moved to the head of the classes. I will miss all of the kids in the next month. But I will enjoy the break from singing boom chica boom! Haha I really need to find a new song that they can sing. The "repeat after me" technique is pretty successful with them. They don't really have to remember the words and we get a nice little rhythm going. Its especially fun to sing while walking to my home visit after school. When we first leave the school there are 20 kids all traveling in the same direction singing and marching home. As we get farther and farther along, the crowd splits off and eventually I am left with 3 or 4 kids diligently repeating after me. I said a boom chica boom...

Judy, Purity and Anisia gave me a bunch of letters to send to various volunteers. It sounds as if they do not get responses to some of their letters which is sad; the girls look forward to them so much. I will have to make sure that I am prompt about writing to them. They are so appreciative and happy that I am sending their letters. I also have tried to find pen pals for them...mostly my sister's friends. I hope they will write soon; they are so excited to have more pen pals.