30/10: First social (again)

Today work went pretty much like yesterday other than the lesson was Swahili, so I had to have an answer sheet to be sure of the correct answers. At one point the children went completely out of hand, pretending they were finished when they weren’t. So I got the other teacher to come and tell them to do it properly. I should have guessed the outcome. The teacher started hitting left and right with her stick thing. Hitting both the ones that had done bad and good. Not going to do that again for sure. After work we had a social: sitting down volley ball with a disabled team. But it was cancelled due to rain. It has been raining every afternoon since I came so they could have figured it out beforehand. But then Sara, Camilla, Katarina (both from Denmark) and I went to Sisima where I ate lunch on Monday, to eat some cake and have a smoothie. We talked a lot and I can tell you there is a lot of drama amongst the volunteers here. Camilla’s roommate Jessica is staying here for seven or eight months and she is the worst person I have ever meet when it comes to speaking behind people’s backs. I heard her say a lot of bad stuff about Camilla on Sunday and of me she has said: she wore a lot of clothes, no make-up and had a Kenya guidebook. That is a correct assessment, but she makes it sound so bad. I wear a lot of clothes out of respect and self-preservation, I didn’t bring any make-up on this trip because I didn’t think I would need it and I haven’t, I read in my guidebook because they were complete bores. Jessica is the prom queen of PA in Kenya with all the things that comes with it. Camilla hasn’t been happy being her roommate and decided she will speak with her tonight. I really hope it goes well. Another thing I heard was that Charlene was really disappointed that I wasn’t French. What does she want me to do about it? I would have preferred someone who could speak English. We agreed to go to Thompson’s falls this Saturday, so that will be fun. By then it was getting late so we went home and the ritual from the other days was pretty much repeated: matatu, hot chocolate, nap, read, dinner, TPF6.