In an effort to keep ourselves busy, and taking
advantage of the extra pair of hands that arrived in the form of Ian, we have
been doing some much needed renovation work in the AICT school over the Easter
break. With the students and teachers away on holiday, we took the opportunity
to sneak in and arrange a surprise.
The previous school painting days, while a lot of
fun, focused on the outside of the school. Despite pleading, the inside of the
rooms were left to their dismal, grey, unfinished interior - a disappointment
to both staff and students. So when some special funding arrived from Ireland specifically
for the Secondary School here, we knew exactly what we would do with it.
We arrived up to an eerily empty school with Ian
and Whitney in tow and got to work. The icing on the cake came in the form of
the School’s Academic Master, Mr. Kibasi who arrived unexpectedly and
enthusiastically painted with us. Moses, our Bajaj driver, who had arrived
simply to drop off Whitney also decided to stay and pick up a brush.
Painting in a rainstorm, with thunder so loud you
can’t hear each other shout was quite a feat. The windows in our school have no
glass so we had some fun trying to actually keep the paint on the walls at one
stage! It also meant the Bajaj got stuck on the way home and we got soaked
pushing it through the mud but all part of the fun.
The students in Form 2 ask most weeks when the
inside of their room will be painted and so they’ll definitely appreciate their
new, bright, clean (and blue, it's always blue!) learning environment.
Swahili word of the day: Mvua (rain – there was a
lot of it!)
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