Yesterday was slow until it wasn’t, and then slow again. I woke up around 6 as I do on pretty much every day. Abby and I left for school at 6:50ish to go on the bus route to pick kids up for remedial classes. We didn’t have to walk, thankfully; our driver picked us up from home. We were very late in getting to school after collecting all the kids because we had forgot that on Saturday’s we needed to pick up the pupils who lived far away. It was the first day of Global StoryBridges and the four kids had showed up (we lost on of the original five), none of the other teachers were there by the time we were supposed to start. During this time I played some basketball and hung out with the students to pass some time.
Eventually, everyone showed up and we started an hour and a half late. We mainly let the kids play around with a camcorder. Our session with them is only to last from 9:00 to 11:00am but the kids have to stay there the whole day because they come and go on the busses with the other kids who are there until 3:30pm. So we finished our task for the day quickly and the poor kids were bored and wasting a Saturday, so we let them play on the computers for a while. One was smart enough to start up a movie!
Around noon, Lucas came to school and said he was taking me to Monduli, the town where he grew up. We left a couple hours later and on the way made a few stops. Lucas left for Nairobi last night and will be there for 10 days with a safari group, so he was very busy squaring things away here for while he’s gone.
I didn’t have any clue what we were going to Monduli for, but on the way I learned that his aunt, the lady who raised him, had died 10 years ago and his family holding a memorial of remembrance for her. We were only there for an hour or so, but it was a nice gathering.
When we got home it was around 6. I did some chores like washing my clothes and cleaning up my room a bit. Lucas took off for Nairobi right after we got home, but not before present Edith with a new car for Valentine’s Day. The house was really quiet. People were resting and relaxing. I ate dinner with Jovin and didn’t see anyone else before I went to bed around 9:30. I think the extra school day is really tiring for everyone, I know it was for me!