Now I'm almost two weeks here and I'm so slow me up. I live alone now in the guest house, which I have already reported in my last entry. In the first week, two German volunteers and an American volunteer living in the guest house with me. Now I am waiting for my partners come from Germany in early November.
Meanwhile, I dug my way through all the shelves and cabinets in the guest house and in the office to get an overview of the existing things and my duties here to provide on-site. Currently, I can look out my duties fairly freely in the Zebra Children's Village (ZCV), as the day is organized by the housekeeper and the social worker with the children. I am primarily responsible for acquisitions and finance, and take care of the material costs to the children. I also try to (regulates the daily tasks of the children) of my predecessors established rule as twice-daily tooth brushing, weekly schedule, or washing days reintroduce to structure the daily lives of children and to hold the children's rooms and the surroundings clean. Also, I am often in Kisherian (sometimes together with Julius), for food and buy school supplies for children. I hope that I have next month an overall view in order to make the beginning of the month, a volume purchase. My predecessors have given me this written up a guide in which I find all the information, get for example the price of products, places where I get the goods at the lowest price, and phone number of the pick up driver ... because not a Matatu I all things;)
What is a matatu? Matatus are here in Kenya, small buses, which actually have 14 seats. This does not mean that ride for 14 people ... 16 Persons is the minimum, before driving a matatu going on ... it does not fit as well as many more people in such a matatu. For example, we have made with the children on a trip to Nairobi. This means that a total of 16 children and 5 adults, so ever 21 people ... and all fit into a matatu. Were added each time at least 3 people who were already in the matatu and the person who collects the fare and ensure that the matatu is always full and the entry and exit of passengers organized.
And how do I get now with a matatu to Nairobi or Kisherian? I run for approx 20mins. across the steppe always in the direction of the school, go to the children of ZCV. At the moment it is quite dry and dusty and not just a few trees are still green. The temperatures during the day are almost always above 30 ° C, but the wind is bearable ... for the locals is winter! So after 20min. gone through the dust bin (with the view of ostriches, zebras, gazelles and cow and goat herds of Massi), I get to a road that leads directly to Kisherian and now I just have to wait until a matatu is. Until now, that was always pretty fast:)
Depending on the condition of the matatus is it then times more times or less rapidly over the road littered with potholes Kisherian. From there I can then continue with Matatus to Ngong and then to Nairobi, but I get just about everything I need in Kisherian. In particular, the market is a dream ... so lots of fresh fruit and vegetables ... and then the Maasai women selling their jewelry ...
After I do the last few days too much with the organization of the orphanage had, I would like to now focus our attention in the children. Tomorrow I will go with them to church and now I play football with them:)
Greetings to Germany!
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