My second day at Monica Memorial

On Wednesday we were advised to stay inside because of the voting that is going on so there was no work for us. Myself and the other three volunteers were getting restless so we asked our Kenyan father if he could take us swimming in Nevasha. We invited his three daughters and their two cousins to also join us. We got to the pool and found out that Kibe (the male cousin) could not swim he is around 21years of age. We paid for him to come in and attempted to teach him how to swim.....this was hilarious! Just getting him to hold onto the side of the pool and kick his legs freaked him out the noises he was making are just indescribable.

Today was my second day at Monica Memorial, I brought all my coloring pencils and nursery spent a good part of the morning doing just that. We then practiced spellings on white boards they are just on cvc words. As the day went on I made a swing out of rope and an old tyre, painted many nails this proves popular every time! I also got out my glitter spray and suddenly 100 arms appeared in front of me and little desperate voices saying "me,me,me,me". One of the volunteers Ross put his music on in the nursery classroom and we called them class at a time to come and perform dance moves to Shakera "Wakka Wakka" This was great fun until.......the volunteers were up! Oh dear not quite as shakera like as we had hoped a bit like Mr bean and Mr blobby combined. The children were a lot more open with us today i got a lot more children holding my hand and approaching me tapping me, they do not really cuddle.