Today was a fantastic day! Have I said that before? We had a lot of fun and got to do my favourite thing… build the high school for the local girls!
So we started the day… travelling about 1 hour to the nearest market. It runs 2 times per week and it is where the locals get everything… clothes, food, cell phones… you name it… it’s here. It’s a bunch of local people selling their goods. So I purchased a Masai weapon… it looks like a club. If you listen to Jackson (one of our Masai protectors here) he used his to kill his lion (that allowed him to become a Masai Warrior). I thought it was pretty cool souvenir… don’t think I’ll be killing a lion any time soon though. As an added bit of fun (and use of our Kiswahili and bartering skills) we were split into groups, we were tasked with using about $15 to purchase gifts fitting for another group. Now that we have gotten to know each other a bit more we could be quite creative with our gifts. It was a lot of fun presenting each person with their gifts that we thought suited them.
Then it was off to building! We had a great day. I have pictures today of the build and everything that we did. I actually didn’t take one picture… Cameron (one of our leaders) took them all. The build is so rewarding and a tonne of fun as I hope that you will see through the
pictures.
Cheers!
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- Anthony our foreman at the school building site
