Parent Teacher Day...

Oh I forgot something in the last post... the students do everything at the school, they wash the classrooms, do the teachers dishes, wash the toilets etc. Teachers walk around with sticks and hit the students in the legs and back if they are missed behaved.

Today I arrived at the school at 8am to help prepare the food for the parent teacher day. It was the first time in the history of the school that they ahd such a day so the pressure was on and there were many invited guest from the equivalence of the board of education and the Kenya Government. We arrived and peeled potatoes for about an hour with a knife which was incredibly challenging but I didn't cut myself until the last potato which I was proud...

After we were finished with the potatoes we walked up to the outdoor assembly. There were about 150 parents there 10 invited guests and all the students. The students had to carry there wooden desks all the way out to the assembly so they had something to sit on. Including the little 1st and 2nd graders. We sat freezing outside in the assembly listening to people talk and a few student presentations until 4pm when we had to leave to go into town to get money. Let me tell you that students from nursery school to 8th grade sat still from 1030am-4pm with out nearly any rucuss absolutely freezing cold. I was very happy we left when we did because apparently the assembly went on until after 6pm.

A newer volutneer and I headed to Nantuck Junction where I was able to get some money out and we grabbed some food... you can only eat so much ugali... and a delicious Kenyan beer. I headed back to where we stayed and passed out after a long day.