As we were teaching at the Maisaka B Athletic Club (MB A Club) the other day, there were many little boys running around. Rachel noticed that one had a hole in the crotch of his shorts. Nothing unusual. When we first met Jarrod and Frank's little brother, he was wearing a fuzzy pink sweater and we thought he was a girl. Then he stood up and he wasn't wearing any pants. So anyway, the boy with the hole in the crotch of his pants is sitting in the dirt. Meanwhile, we are doing a condom demonstration, so Rachel, Mara, and I are blocking the door and window so the kids can't see. Rachel turns around and says, "Oh my gosh, it is hanging out of his shorts. Gross! Please tell me when it's away!" So a few minutes later I look around to see if the kid is gone. Nope. Now he's using it to dig a hole in the dirt. I don't think we needed to worry about him seeing the condom demonstration.
Another little boy was later caught peeing a stream about 20 feet long.
We like to talk about the choo (toilet) here. Jarrod used Rachel's toilet the other day before we left for a teaching. He comes back and says, "Your choo is really nice aside from the fact that it doesn't have a door." Rachel looks a little shocked. "What are you talking about?!" she says. They go to check it out. Apparently what Jarrod had peed in was not the choo. It had a hole in the floor, but who knows what it's used for.
Our teaching yesterday morning fell through. So we were deciding what to do and we decided to go to the Rift Valley English Medium School, which is about 40 minutes away in Maisaka A (not our turf). But Frank had met a teacher there who was interested in having us teach. We went and apparently they were expecting us to come and teach that day. Weird because we hadn't talked about it at all. But we didn't have much time because we had to be back for lunch. So we talked with the headmaster and met Standards 4-7, who we can teach. It's going to be very interesting because we are going to teach only in English and we don't have to translate into Swahili. Weird! I'm kind of excited for it. We start on Monday morning! I'm really stoked to teach some kids. One of the kids in my house goes there and is in Standard 5. We didn't even know! It's sooo far away!
We were also supposed to teach at the mosque yesterday, but Beatrice (one of our translators) was MIA (apparently she went to the clinic to get her toe fixed, thanks for sharing) and Frank didn't want to go. No one had confirmed so he said no one would be there and he didn't want to go. He was tired so we kind of let it go. But we all felt bad about missing it. We had no translator though so we didn't have a choice.
So we went shopping instead. Just kidding. But I did go to the tailor to pick up a skirt I had dropped off a while ago. It's a wrap skirt and I LOVE IT! It's my favorite cut so far and I'm going to have to get more.
Last night a bunch of people stayed in town at a hostel and hung out. We went for a little bit, but didn't want to stay out too late because our family has to wait up for us. Sara was staying at Rachel's house since we weren't sure if we could have her stay at our's because of Bibi. But we hung out for a bit and learned some crazy stuff. There are a few hook-ups going on. It's a bit weird since we've only been here for 3 weeks and people are claiming they love each other. I've even got one of the teaching partners trying this on me. Clearly I'm not having any of that BS. It's ridiculous. But others are doing it and they are doing it just to have stories to tell their friends. "I hooked up with an African guy!" Really stupid. I didn't come to Africa for this. But fortunately I have friends who think the same thing and we go do fun Africa stuff. Like buy skirts. And make guacamole. Which we did again today for Rachel's family and then for Frank and Jarrod's family. They LOVED it!
Our teaching today was pretty uneventful. I was really tired and REALLY frustrated because they made us take pictures beforehand. Everyone wanted to take a picture with the mzungus. It was so irritating and I felt like I was an animal on display. It's not show and tell when the mzungus come to Africa. After about three pictures I just got up and left. It really put me in a bad mood. Especially since we were taking time out of our teaching to take these stupid pictures. I'm having a good time here but I can't wait to go somewhere where I am not a spectacle. Gah!!
Okay, all for now! As I said, a lot has happened in the last few days compared to others. Both good and bad stuff. Overall, having fun! Someone eat a bacon cheeseburger for me!! Maybe some In-n-Out, double double no onions or lettuce, fries, chocolate milkshake.
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