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Day 5 at Nkenijii School
In case you missed previous posts: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4. Our final day at Nkenijii Primary School has been the toughest for me to write about. You can probably tell given that I’m just now posting three weeks after returning from Kenya. I felt a sense of finality as soon as I woke…
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Day 4 at Nkenijii School
Catch up here: Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. This post doesn’t have much to do with Nkenijii but I’m keeping the title for continuity. The post recapping Day 5 will be very much about our time with the Nkenijii students. After volunteering at Nkenijii in the morning and then lunch at Siana Springs,…
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Day 2 at Nkenijii School
Read about Day 1 here. At Steven’s suggestion, he, some other students and I took a reasonably long (and messy) walk in order for them to show me their water source. I was grateful for his suggestion, frankly, because it meant that he wouldn’t ask me to play soccer, at least for a short period…
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Day 1 at Nkenijii School
Meeting the kids on Day 1 (Monday, July 14) was like a scene in a movie. Upon arrival, our vans were greeted by several hundred Maasai kids ranging in age from three to approximately seventeen, most of them wearing purple school sweaters and singing welcome songs. Welcome jenniferlkeene’s video on Instagram After a brief assembly,…
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Things that are hard to explain to a Kenyan teenager
Skyscrapers The subway A dog as a pet versus one who herds cows, goats and sheep A dog wearing a coat made for a dog I was trying to find a picture of snow to show them. Why I have pictures of food in my phone Being childless and husbandless Not living with my parents…
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