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#13 – Sometimes It Doesn’t Pay

July 20, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

This was one of those days when I conceded it didn’t really pay to get out of bed.  I woke up reasonably early, but just couldn’t get myself going.  I’m not a morning person—just leave me alone until I eat my breakfast, complete the sudoku and the X-word.  Then I’m ready to be a human.  […]

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#12 – A Visit with Catherine

July 14, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

My dear friend, Catherine Wanjohi, has been in Scotland, only returning a few days ago.  This afternoon has been our first opportunity to talk more than just a brief “Hi”.   As is always the case there is much, much more to talk about than time to do it.  Sigh!  In Scotland, she attended the International […]

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#11 – Another Mji Kid Checks In

July 7, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

John, Mary and I did go to David Mungai’s for lunch.  He lives on the outskirts of Naivasha in one of the many housing developments springing up everywhere.  Someday the town will rue the lack of zoning laws and infrastructure (like planned roads).  Most of the housing consists of u-shaped buildings constructed around an inner […]

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#10 – This & That

July 6, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

Lots going on, but nothing that would make a good story, or that I’ve wanted to write about.  I think I’ve mentioned that during the 50 minutes students have after lunch before classes recommence I make myself available to anyone who wants help. Yesterday I had just one customer, at least in the beginning.  A form […]

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#9 – Problems & Visitors

July 3, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

Having taken my time this morning, I left here about noon, but had to see Mwangi, the mechanic who keeps the car running, to pay him for doing that important job, then stopped to see Joyce, the seamstress to order 50 more African shopping bags.  She has a small shop, right next door to a […]

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#8 – Big Doins and Not so Big

July 1, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

As I wrote in #7, I did not attend the ordination but even my lone mzunguface was not missed among the many people who flocked to the church.  There were 3 to be confirmed, but Fr. Paul I think was the most well-known around here. I hadn’t realized who it was, as there are manyFrs. Paul […]

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#7 – Thoughts

June 29, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

So many things I could write about, but what is really eating at me right now is several very hard stories. First is from Esther, one of our Mji kids, very bright girl who is finishing her diploma course in medical technology—training to manage the machinery in hospitals, IV’s MRI’s etc.  She has 2 more […]

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#6 – Visits, Visitors, and Pizza

June 26, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

After spending the morning at St. Francis, first observing a form 3 class and then doing some re-learning of the Kenyan vectors curriculum while eating my lunch, I met my 3 students in the chem lab where we beat surds into submission. I think they got it, they seemed to. As always, time will tell.  Every year […]

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#5 – Weekend Activities

June 24, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

I thought this would be a quiet weekend, I would have nothing to write about, but as usual, things just turn up. Yesterday (Saturday) was to be shower/ shampoo, do laundry and be a bit of a lay-about.  But then David Luther wrote to say he wanted to visit me before he returned to Nairobi.  […]

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#4 – First Day at SFG and Dinner in the Rectory with Archbishop

June 22, 2019 by Alison Staab Leave a Comment

I finally got to St. Francis Girls today.  It looks so good, trees trimmed, grass cut, a new planting area along the driveway, full of blooming roses bushes.  I am so happy to be here. Principal, Lydia Ndungo, and I truly hit it off last year.  She had been at SFG only 1 or 2 […]

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