This Little Piggy

This little piggy went to market,

This little piggy stayed home.

This little piggy had roast beef,

This little piggy had none.

And this little piggy cried "Wee wee wee,"

All the way home!

Where does this little piggy live?  With the other piggies of course.....

And where is "home"?

...in Kibera slums.  

The piggies share the slum with over 1,000,000 people in an area the size of Central Park.  It is the largest slum in Africa, and second in the world to one in Mexico City.  

I get to hear the piggies grunting around as they prepare for market and roast beef in the mornings, as they live across the river from my back balcony.

Bird Coffee Klatch

A story about laundry may not be of great interest to those people with luxury of a washing machine and dryer; but for those of us hand washing all our clothing and air drying; the events that will unfold are of the utmost importance!

I never knew this, but apparent the birds on this side of Nairobi have a daily coffee klatch.  Unbeknown to me they get together every morning to share the events of the previous day.  How did I discover this great event.  Well one day I did some laundry and hung it on the line to dry.  At the end of the day I took in the dry laundry only to discover that birds had left me some interesting gifts stuck to the clean clothes.  How annoying, now I had to wash the clothes AGAIN!

After this happened two more times, we decided to wash clothes in the evening and hang them up overnight to dry; since the birds should all be asleep an nowhere near the clothes.  We thought that they were doing fly bys and getting lucky.  The next morning I got up early and took in the clothing; it was all clean....Yay!  The plan worked.

Around 7 am, I heard birds twittering outside, went to the balcony, and discovered the coffee klatch. Apparent our laundry lines make a great place to exchange the daily info.

Sorry for the Silence

Since starting school two weeks ago, I've discovered I have very little time to do anything on the internet.  Big surprise!!  I will try to do better, at least by posting pictures.  I have a few that I've just not had time to even get on the laptop.  But things are getting better at school and I'm getting okay with the time management; so I hope to have a bit more time as the term progresses.  So thank for understanding!

Teacher Talk Tuesday

First Week of School

The prep school.

So okay, the kids aren't here yet; but still so much to do.  My classroom is actually a science lab which is great.  I teach all my classes here except one; have a smart board and video projector.  Now I just have to learn to really use it well in my lesson plans.  I also have to do a lot of decorating; apparently there hasn't been someone as a teacher in the classroom for a while so need to get things down and then new things up; clean out the office, which has been the dumping ground prior to now.  There is a lab tech who will basically get me whatever I need....nice!  Anybody know how to coordinate curriculum???  I'm the prep school science curriculum coordinator.  Oh, and I'm starting a forensics club.  Any ideas??

Ready for the first day of school.