Saturday, August 11, 2007

Journal Entry 5: Jawambe 21st July 2007

The past few days have been a bit dramatic and not too good. After our trip to Boru on Wednesday and Thursday a large bulk of the group became really sick. Tom and June had really bad stomach cramps and sickness, Avril had the same but she'd been feeling that way a little longer than the others. Yesterday Maria was complaining of dizziness when we were filming over at Ganjoni. We told Eileen and she told us to go home and rest (we were supposed to teach later on that day). Maria ended up fainting just as we got back to Jawambe but luckily Gary was around to help. I was so worried.

We brought her to the hospital later and they did some tests. Ruled out malaria thankfully but said she was dehydrated. They gave her medication anyway and she's on the mend. Colin also came down with a fever yesterday, shivering and generally unwell. He also went to the hospital and they also ruled out malaria. I was feeling a little dodgy last night myself but nothing on the scale of the others. I slept a lot and had an early night and I'm totally back to normal today. Today is the day of the MEWA ceremony and also the release of Harry Potter. Really hope they have it in the Nakumatt.

Boru

So, on Wednesday we went to Boru for two days. Boru is four hours outside Mombasa. It's very remote, a bit colder than Mombasa and full of snakes apparently, although we only saw the one Black Mamba, and it was dead. It was really cool to see another side of Kenya. We stayed in a sort of hostel type place, very basic down to the lectrine and infested with ants and things. I was a little freaked out. I was surprised when Kevin said we'd have hot water in the morning though, until he explained that the man who runs the place would come around with a bucket of hot water for us to wash with. Hah :p The place itself and location was really beautiful though.


On the first day Maria and myself taught in this gorgeous boarding school called Boru Girls Secondary School. It was such an amazing place. We had to drive for ages up the cliffs of Boru...it was really freaky, just kept getting higher and higher on this ultra bumpy road - a very long way down. The scenery from the school was just unreal. It was so picturesque. The girls there were so lovely. Afterwards we got talking to a few of them and swapped addresses so hopefully we'll keep in touch.


The teaching wasn't brilliant for us sadly. The teachers seemed a little unenthusiastic and quite a few of the computers stopped working throughout the class. We also only had three hours with them which is just nothing. The others continued the teaching the following day though and said that things went really well so I think they warmed to us in the end and gained something from the short experience.


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