Jambo rafikis

Here is today's top news:

1. Pineapple shortage causes outrage at breakfast, well for me anyway!

2. Standard 4 overrun by spiders.

3. Where's Wally fever grabs standard 1.

4. PPI leaves Stewart breathless.

5. Page battles on despite losing ear!

6. Football mania strikes Victory.

7. My sprite is warm.

8. Rhys didn't get me coffee and he threw a spider at Riggs.....the boy is out of control!

Well good evening everyone I hope you are fine, we are all fine here.

So this morning arrives like any other, with a rather annoying alarm, and so everyone is up, the staff shower (though not all together) and then down for breakfast for the morning Malaria fighter and food. To our utter shock (yawn) Rhys and Alfie have "lost" some Malarone, but both have enough to see them through their time in Kenya and we will have replaced their "lost" pills by the time they leave for England.

Arrived at school at 9:10 in plenty of time for PPI which took place at 9:20. PPI was awesome yet again and was seen by Mrs Stewart for the first time. It was really interesting watching her reactions as at times it was like she was utterly breathless! The only way I can describe certain points of PPI ( especially when they all sing in unison) is that it's like a wave of euphoria. If you could bottle the feeling, people would never need to smoke or drink again! The Keny15 were also laughing and clapping and singing their hearts out, there was no awkwardness or embarrassment, just a genuinely good time with us all jumping up and down, stamping our feet and waving our arms in the air furiously. Cheesmur said that it was more like being at a festival than an assembly. Chris did his Sherman with the help of Ollie, a monkey puppet and some of the Kenya 15 performed a piece of drama about the man who built his house on stone.

PPI ended all to soon, but not before tears from Mrs Stewart! So only 1 person cried at PPI, which means no one won last nights diamond watch! After PPI the boys continued teaching their lessons and we had a minor medical emergency when one of the girls fainted. We got the girl in the shade and made sure she was comfortable. It is amazing to see the compassion show for each other here at the school as she was surrounded by friends and concerned staff. In the end we decided that the best thing to do would be to send her to Dr Luke. About 1 hour later she returned a much healthier and happier little girl than when she left. 

Today I saw several lessons, but was bowled over by Mike Jones who takes te moment of the day today. He was showing standard 4 how to make jiggling spiders and the amount of colour and joy in the room was wonderful. So much cutting and folding and paper that I almost forgot I was in the middle of a slum in Bombolulu and could have sworn I was back in d lab. Mike was assisted by Patrick, Ed and James and they all did amazingly well. Te lesson continues on Monday, the kids are excited.

Later Mrs Farmer gave out 26 Where's Wally hats to 26 Standard 1's. My goodness did the sun come out for those little boys and girls. They were so excited and Mrs Milan the teacher said the class was almost untraceable after this as they were so happy, they sang Christmas songs and had a great time. See Mrs Farmers blog for more details.

Alfie, Alex and Riggs also taught Science today and at the end set off some mini fireworks, you can imagine how well this went down! Kyle taught amazing CRE lesson and Louie once again excelled at drama. You should all be very proud of the impact your sons have had on the students out here in Victory as some of the memories they have created will be treasured forever!

After lunch it was time for football and Victory was playing another school. Te noise of support was incredible, but unfortunately we had to leave for the hotel way before the end. As we were leaving we thought Victory had scored and the celebration was amazing, with everyone dancing and singing.....the ball had just trickled wide, but in all the excitement we had all been fooled. 

Anyway, just time for the weekends big question...how many lions will we see on safari? A special safari prize to the winner, so good luck. There will be no blogs tomorrow night, but instead why not see what's happening on our Facebook page?

Kwaheri x

Ps have I mentioned how happy your kids make the students of Victory? If not, thank you, thank you for everything. X