Je suis de retour!

Evening all,

Well I am back at St. Anna following a couple of weeks passing through Paris, London & Porto. It all sounds a bit of a jolly (deserved I’d like to think), but I did manage to find half a dozen new sponsors plus discuss and kick off what I hope will be a major push on the fund raising for the library and solar power. 2 B Contd…

Alors je suis de retour and I am glad to be back to get on with the job at hand. The noticeable changes are that
. the boys dorm/ new classroom block is practically finished apart from putting up black boards, the
. there are wooden stools all over the place waiting to be delivered to Kiambugi high school

The unnoticeable change, but the one that is on everyone’s lips is the organisation of the school in to houses. If you recall that one of the changes I wished to make, was one close to my heart from my own childhood. Students were to be subdivided into “houses” be named after something the big 5 wild animals:
i. Lion (red)
ii. Leopard (yellow)
iii. Rhino (white)
iv. Buffalo (green)
v. Elephant (blue)

Well, the day before I left for home I had a meeting with the teaching staff to suggest this, and guess what? ... they loved it. In fact they loved it so much so that Mr. Mwago was immediately assigned responsibility for dividing students and teachers alike in to houses.

Imagine my delight therefore to arrive back today to be assaulted by shouts of “I’m in Elephant” and “I’m a Lion” and even “I’m a Buffalo soldier”. And not only are they in their houses but also that they have already been competing casually in sports and singing! Yay!!!

The plan is now to organise a real novelty sports day towards the end of the month with sack and three legged races, but egg and spoon and other fun things.

Oh oh, one final piece of good news (as if that weren’t already enough), our music club is set to participate in their first competition in Murang’a next Friday. Gonna have to find them something a little more jazzy then their uniforms pretty quickly.

Today was a good day ... beats watching the news on TV no? Good night and good luck.