So, after a safari weekend and feeling a bit unwell last Tuesday I came down with a nasty bit of something Wednesday night. Thursday morning I was in a local private hospital and for the equivalent of $25 I was consulted, blood tested, and treated for . . . malaria. Oh, I know there are pills for that, was taking them. And have only two . . . TWO . . . mosquito bites on my body. Leave to one of those buggers to give me malaria.
A shot larger than a tetanus needle in the bum and some medication from Novartus in good ol' Suffern, NY and yesterday was the first day I felt 100%. Nasty.
Today was the children's last day of school and as Gloria mentioned in her post we're prepping for some reinforcement time in the mornings for the students. The grading system is interesting in Kenya. Students are ranked according to their class and also grade. Each grade is broken down into an North, East, South, and West where classes can range from 40 - 50+ students. Granted this is a public school, but I'm sure a union would flip at these numbers. In analyzing their strengths and weaknesses we hope to provide a little reinforcement over our last two weeks.
The firepit idea has officially ceased for now. I have the specs drawn up, but with the lack of contact with the landlord we don't want to do work that will get them kicked out of the house. The chicken coop project is a go. Omari's chickens are now up to 70+ eggs daily and we're going to create a separate room to isolate the cock and and few hens to guarantee some fertilized eggs.
Time is flying by unfortunately and there's definitely a need to have it slow down and stop.
70+ eggs? WOW! When I left it was only at 30.
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