Typical Saturday Life

Today was a simple and relaxing day for me, so I took out my dSLR camera and took some more random photos of typical Saturday life in the school.

Look beyond the individuals, and look at the environment they live in -- clothing, how they do their chores, what things they have available to do them, conditions, and so forth.

Enjoy...

Doing his laundry

Washing hair, trunk, in the same tub that students brush their teeth and wash faces.

Sorting bugs and inerts out of pile of beans, which will be cooked for supper.

Dozing off, with foot protecting his precious possessions

Male students laundry hung to dry, but many students only have one or two pairs 

Typical bed bunks

Enjoying reading in solitude

Adding his clothes to the line

Bunk beds brought outside for welding repairs before Form 1 (freshmen) comes in this Monday

Senior doing serious study

Sometimes students use this faucet for drinking as well, and it came from the river (often brown water)

Painting in the Form 1 classroom before students come in

Another student studying

Staff room, lot of papers turned brown (never used), and often find water bugs scatter around if you pull a folder out from the stacks.  Each teacher is assigned to a drawer and shelf.

Clothes line in the girls dorm

I always thought it was some exotic large Africian bird, but it turns out to be common crow (all with white band on the body) that scavenges everything everywhere

All students are required to bring their own matresses (typically foam),  They are hanging them out to dry

Termite mound.  Alot of those all over the dirt grounds including our football (soccer) fields.

Waiting for chai

Our netball post and rim, whats left of it. No its not abandoned, but used often.

Having her own kettle of chai before other students have their cups

Chai is part of Kenyan (inherited from the British) life

All chairs and desks repaired and painted, ready to be used for Form 1