First Friday in Kenya - Spend the day at the school and teach maths, sit through a Swahili lesson, RE, British bull dogs for PE, English and a song to the baby kids. We tried 12345 but that was quite hard so we did Twinkle Twinkle. They gathered around the desk so they could see my ipod on its speaker sounds. The Volume isn’t very good in the mud hut classrooms.. During PE the boys seem to be intrigued by the upper part of my arms and my lack of muscles! The squash it and poke it and when I ask why it is so interesting - they simply say ‘ you’re muzungo’. It’s that simple. They#ve all seen white people before but having one they can poke and prod at will is a bit more
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