July 26, 2018 My summer visit is more than ½ gone! ACH! Where did it go? It always feels like this—like I’ve just arrived and suddenly I’m winging my way back. Today Hillary and I took Julie to Nairobi, where she’s spending the night in a very posh hotel. In the lobby we are all […]
Archives for July 2018
# 16 Catching Up
July 22, 2018 I think I haven’t posted for more than a week—not because I had nothing to report. Quite the opposite, I’ve been so busy I’ve had no time (or sometimes no energy) to write. This will be a short synopsis. I can’t remember everything. Last Friday my 3rd visitor arrived. Julie Schatz is […]
# 15 We Celebrate Hillary’s Birthday
July 13, 2018 Friday Yesterday Hillary drove us to the Maasai Market for my annual junket to buy treasures for our craft shows. Mary and Kathleen were quite overwhelmed, as I was by the first few times I went. The hawkers are very aggressive, in 1 of 2 ways. Either they try to overwhelm one […]
# 14 School Days
July 10, 2018 I spend every day at school, doing various things, meeting kids in the library during their very limited free time, teaching classes, teaching the teachers, meeting with the principal, or sometimes just working hairy problems. Three Form 1 students come for consultation almost every day after lunch. We discuss the problems they are […]
# 13 Scarf Day 2018
July 7, 2018 It has been really cold—turtle necks, camisole, vest, jacket kind of cold. So we decided to have scarf day early this year. For my new readers, scarf day began with Anita Dippery, one of the founding members of the Kenya Help board, knitting scarves for a number of the children at Mji. That was so […]
# 12 Their First Real Day
July 5, 2018 Bright and early this morning Mary went across the road to the District Hospital where she spent the whole day, mostly in pediatrics. At dinner, when each of us reported out the day, I could see how hard it had been to see the way meds were handled, how babies with pneumonia […]
# 11 US Visitors Have Arrived
July 3, 2018 We did it!! The plumbers came to fix the shower, electrician fixed the sockets and lights, tile man replaced tiles gouged out by plumber to find the shower problem and remove a water spigot right over the bed (yeah! Really), tile cleaner-man made tile that was very badly stained look almost new, […]
# 9 First Day at SFG
June 26, 2018 This afternoon 3 form 4 girls came to ask me about a math topic. That resolved I was ready to go home, but it became evident they wanted to talk more. “Margo, we are so stressed right now. We’re trying to prepare for our mocks, there is so much to learn, we feel overwhelmed. We graduate […]