Monday, June 14, 2010
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
"The ignorance of people in higher places"
It's the first day of the volunteers arrival - they came in this morning on the Virgin flight from Heathrow, bleary eyed but bushy tailed, 11 of the Gatoto team raring to go. This energy lasted for the trip back from Jomo Kenyatta International airport, into the house, until the bags were unpacked and the beds claimed, but as we push into the early afternoon, they're dropping like flies and there are more people asleep than awake in the house. It's good to have people in it, rumbling about the appartment fit for 14 people with only another person in it was a bit strange.
It's my 7th day in Kenya, a week has passed since my flight here, and it already seems like an age has gone by. 7 days feel like 7 weeks - I feel miles away, there's so much here that's new and strange and different that time moves differently. Our days are structured differently too, with dusk falling so soon after half six that the night is much earlier and longer - getting up at 6 in the morning isn't too strange either! Another shift for me. I'm more accustomed to the coming back at 6 in the morning rather than starting the day now.
I visited our partner school today for the second time and met the phenomenal Betty. Everything that people have said about her before is true, and more. A completely wonderful woman. Reading Collier's book about Democracy in Dangerous places, he speaks of politicians and their photographs. . . the more the politician feels the need to smile, the more indebted they feel to their electorate. The presidential photograph is omnipresent, and he's not that smiley. . .
It's my 7th day in Kenya, a week has passed since my flight here, and it already seems like an age has gone by. 7 days feel like 7 weeks - I feel miles away, there's so much here that's new and strange and different that time moves differently. Our days are structured differently too, with dusk falling so soon after half six that the night is much earlier and longer - getting up at 6 in the morning isn't too strange either! Another shift for me. I'm more accustomed to the coming back at 6 in the morning rather than starting the day now.
I visited our partner school today for the second time and met the phenomenal Betty. Everything that people have said about her before is true, and more. A completely wonderful woman. Reading Collier's book about Democracy in Dangerous places, he speaks of politicians and their photographs. . . the more the politician feels the need to smile, the more indebted they feel to their electorate. The presidential photograph is omnipresent, and he's not that smiley. . .
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