Off to school in the morning again, am continuing to teach “who” and “whose” to join sentences-something I would rarely teach in the states. The students here do a lot of copying and rote learning. They rarely seem to understand what I say in English. But they are very enthusiastic and all wave their hands around calling out “Madam”! Some don’t have notebooks and they give me little slips of paper with their answers written on them.

After Christine’s talk, we all went to visit a local family of musicians. The father died of HIV-AIDS and his first wife also. Another wife is now sick and who knows which children it has affected. The musicians showed and demonstrated their instruments and put on a small performance. Children were everywhere and they sang to us also.

After dinner we went to a local bar/restaurant and saw a larger performance put on by the same family. After school in the morning we will be off to Zanzibar for the weekend.

I feel bad that I have not learned much Swahili. Our days are so packed with activity and I still have not really caught up on sleep at all.  This afternoon, Christine spoke to us about the education system. English used to be taught as the major language but now all subjects, except English class are in Swahili. Education used to be free but now if a child cannot buy a uniform, he/she can’t go to school.