Wednesday, 26 October 2011

School, Games, Songs, and milking the cow

I did alot of things while I was at the village. One of the things I did was going to the Kandaria Secondary School. I was In Form 1 which is equivalent to grade 9 but the work was only grade 5 level. Kenyan schools are alot different from Canadian schools. Some of the differences are that in Kenya they have much longer days(6am-5pm!), they have nothing on the walls but in Canada,the walls are very colorful, they have to have a school uniform, and they cane people who misbehave!
At the centre, I taught the kids lots of games using rubber chickens like Capture The Chicken, Chuck The Chicken and Duck Duck Chicken. I've also taught them lots of card games like Ratuki, Jungle speed and Uno. There are some somgs that I've taught them too like Bananas Unite and The Penguin Song, which I learned at Camp Bimini. Something else that I did was milk the cow! It was very hard because I had to do it by hand. Simon, the boy who usually milks the cow can milk it in only 6 minutes and he does it every day of the year!!

2 comments:

  1. Hi Gavin,
    I can't believe he can milk the cow in 6 minutes.
    WOW! We all miss you and hope you are having a great time.
    P.S How are the kids

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  2. Boy I bet you are glad you don't have to get up so early to go to school. Did Simon give you any tips on how to improve your milking speed?
    What fun to be able to share you many of your games and songs!
    How do I send you pics of your tomato plant? It is doing well. Most have turned ripe, three were eaten by my friend as payment for watering it.

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