It’s 10:45 in the morning, and so far today, I have...
1. Talked with my parents for an hour to arrange last minute details for my mom’s trip. Did I mention I’m excited she’s coming? BECAUSE I AM REALLY EXCITED.
2. Worked with Kayci to handle yet another breakdown of our beloved schoolbus, Coaster. Seventeen text messages later, our teachers are at school and the day is running smoothly.
3. Interviewed a secondary school applicant while simultaneously greeting our teachers for the morning, collecting school fees from students, trying to find keys for Miss China’s classroom, getting a translation on a letter from the district education office, dodging the ferocious mama cat who has decided to keep her kittens in our office...and...I am not really sure what else.
4. Lead morning parade, one of my favorite parts of the day. That’s a blog for a whole other day!
5. Met with two fathers of students, who were both very gracious about my broken Swahili. I imagine it sounds like our kindergarteners speaking English. Who am I kidding? It’s more like our preschoolers speaking English, sweet dears.
6. Helped a student with a possible sprained ankle...and panicked Kayci in the process. I sent two girls to the house to get an ice pack for JULIE (injured student), but it got lost in translation... “Julia needs an ice pack. She broke her foot.” (After further inspection, it is not broken, just a sprain...?) At any rate, Julie is on her way to the doctor and should be on the mend soon. I’m so glad we had already arranged a city trip in our van for this morning AND that it was scheduled to leave twenty minutes after the injury occured. We helped a hobbling Julie into the van, and off she went with Mama Mage (getting glasses for two of our girls), Jackie and Mashiku (on their way to government offices), Mzee Kitula (buying building supplies) and our fabulous driver, Kanaeli!
7. Ran up to the house...twice...to retrieve things I forgot. My reward...hearing Mama Marium singing “Kweto Pazuri” while cooking rice for our school lunch and stealing a hug from Ester.
At the moment, I’m in Form One listening to a Swahili lesson from our interviewee of the morning, Mr. Malajiwa. I think I’m gonna hire this guy.
Now if I can just get our photocopier to work...
It’s hard to believe it’s not even lunch time...just another day in the life of Mwalimu Mkuu (Head Teacher) of Joseph and Mary School!
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