Football

Greetings from Kenya!

These past few weeks have been very very eventful. It seems to be football season in school, so there has been not so much school and a lot of travelling all over Maasailand to various other schools to compete. And here, believe me, football is taken VERY seriously - a whole day of school will be cancelled for just one game! It means I am seriously behind with my classes now, and there will have to be a lot of catching up when this is all finally over!

It has been a lot of fun however - because I will repeat, football is taken VERY seriously. Yesterday there was a game in a neighbouring school which I decided to go to, so me and a Standard 8 girl called Mary managed to bargain a space in a vehicle and went to watch (and I also wanted to visit the village because I had never been there). There were 3 schools playing, and the tension was immense. About 4 fights NEARLY started, 1 fight actually started, these people were playing like it was a life or death situation! One boy from an opposing team decided to try and injure someone from our team, and one of our teachers who is usually a very calm and composed man just grabbed his Maasai stick and ran towards this boy and the next thing there's a big fight and the whole game was stopped for a while.

The whole final tournament is going to be at this Maasai show which will happen on Thursday, Friday and Saturday next week which will be a lot of fun, especially walking 3 hours to the location of the show in the next village with my students.

David's leaving date is now incredibly close, and I am not going to say too much because this is a rather difficult thing for me to think about right now! It will be a big obstacle for both of us but let God give us strength to live well and independently in Kenya and Aberdeen for a short time.

I am thinking of everyone, so I hope that everyone is well and happy at home!

Tutuonana/Kwaheri/Olesere/Kidua/See you

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