But I should perhaps still a little bit going into detail. So, as two of our children are not returned back from vacation, we have Two new girls added to the ZCV. You come from a Masai Village pretty far out, but there are going to school. With the death of her mother and a permanently absent father, they were then but with their very ill grandmother alone.
have also visited my project partner and I last week was a very poor family in Kiserian with a teacher from the school. This had become aware through his work in the church on this family, which hardly has money for food and therefore the children can make no education. So maybe soon we will have one or two more boys in ZCV ... unless we get somewhere herbe a new bed.
I was pleasantly surprised by the way after my visit with the family. I had prepared myself to some, but the fact that although the very small living room and the clothes of the family were very clean and tidy, poverty was not so blatantly visible, as I had previously thought.
Before visiting the family, it gave the school has a "Parents Night" for all parents with children at the school. That was a strange feeling as the "parents" to go to school and then decide jointly whether children repeat a class or not. The only problem with the thing was that almost exclusively Kiswahili or Kimasai was speaking after two hours and we were still on agenda item 1 of 4.
way, we have not only two new girls ZCV, but also a new dog. He is still very playful, but at some point he will again be a great guard dog! After initial assignment of the dog to the male sex and associated names must now, however, another name will be displayed, because it is not a dog but a dog.
I'm curious to see how this goes on with the education of the dog. Fact, there is quite a few discrepancies between the traditional Masai ideas that entail inter alia, that the touch of a dog is unlucky, and the ideas of the new American volunteers.
And here we are already talking about the next topic: the new volunteers. For three weeks, my partners and I get reinforcements. First came a new volunteer from America, a full year will remain in ZCV and a few days later, then a mother with her daughter from Canada. The daughter is five months stay here, the mother already left after six weeks off again. Currently, the number of whites is therefore relatively high, which to me makes my job on the one hand, because the children are more concerned by others. On the other hand, it is every day a challenge for me to do with the kids homework and tutoring, if they are distracted by so many people.
But the benefits of several volunteers clearly outweigh ... especially regarding the hard work that is taking place here to build a greenhouse. With this building we have started last week and not with the construction themselves, but for preparing the surface, where you want to the house. We had to first of all the grass that stood there, knee high, mow with a kind hand scythe. And then the men started the first of the 37 holes for piles to dig, so we end next week will there be a fence. Beforehand, but each post in concrete, thus drawing a few meters barbed wire fence.
In the last week I had the way not so much in preparing the land for greenhouses helped. There were several reasons: First, I have always cut the week before, only around houses and along the paths of our site the grass by hand, second here last week were so many men that there is no sense left for me, and thirdly, I had visit by the two volunteers from Kisii.
And again a new theme: the two girls from Kisii to visit me in the zebra ... so fast is rarely a week has passed;). We had to eat a lot of fun together at the chat, cooking (Chapati with yogurt dip, and homemade french fries), fruit, visit Masai Village, Masai cross-market and empty now:) and on the last night when sleep at a campsite in the Ngong Hills. Our tent was right there on the hillside, but was late in the evening visited by us, busy as we cook with open fires were Marschmelow. Before there was the way to admire a beautiful sunset!
So what was there? Our house! So our front door is already growing for some time a tomato. But most recently, but in fact it bears little green fruit and then I do every morning and every evening with my water and toothpaste by brushing it delightful, I am firmly convinced that the harvested fruits taste like toothpaste!
And then there's a new solar system in our house. Until now we had only two lights, one in the room of my project partner and in our "living room". But with the new solar system we can operate four lamps simultaneously, so that we now have a lamp in the kitchen and one in my room. It's really great to have sometimes in the evening light, without having to hold a flashlight in his hand must:).
And now to the two last points: pick-up drive and Jama Choma. I have made in January, two new experiences that are very much to life here in Kenya. First, the number of moving here Matatus lately declined significantly, so that my partners and I have started, often times ride on the back of a pick-up. In contrast to the matatu which has the advantage that it is not as tight and you get the wind blowing around our ears.
And what is now Jama Choma? Translated it means "burnt flesh" and that's what it is! It is simply a large piece of meat (usually a goat) to a barbecue down pretty close to the charcoal and roasted until as long as it's black. Add to that a bit of salt and ugali and finished the feast. We had zebra on a Friday the fun: My project partner has just bought by four kilos of meat and our security guard was then operated for ne-five minutes the grill and that was lunch! In between we got a call from the way NEN Masai Village, if we had ne slaughtered goat? Well, Jama Choma is halt ne very smelly and dry matter for me as a sauce fan, perhaps a little bit, but otherwise quite tasty.
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