Kamau

Remember this little guy?


This is Kamau. He's about 5 years old and lives with his mom on the street. Yesterday after Geoffrey talked with his mom and she agreed, he was moved into House 3!
He will now be living with Esokon, Ovito, Wiki, Simiyu, Pato, and Isaya

Getting some shoes


Car ride to his new house






Getting the tour



Cute Kamau

Just Keep Swimming

We took a break from teaching yesterday so we could take the kids from Freda's hospital to the pool like usual on thursdays

Dottie


Elia




Moses



Elia wouldn't bend his legs to jump so he would kind of just lean into the pool








We decided to bring back an old hairstyle, Kenyans thinkwe have weird hair anyway so why not?
Ladies and gentlemen, the Ben Franklin


Allison and I also had some fun jumping off the diving board for about 20 minutes after the kids were done swimming. Gold medal material really...Cannonballs, Jackknifes, Russians, 360's, you would have been impressed
Today, back to Class 7 Science

Yesterday was my turn with Class 8 and we literally worked on Science and Social Studies from 9:30AM to 3:45PM.

Allison in her full uniform


I only had the shirt


Break time

Steward and Dorcas


Joseph, who after all this time, we found out his name was Godfrey





Martin, Johnstone, and Justus are crazy with how much they love to learn. It got to be break time and I asked if they wanted to go outside and they refused at least 4 times, so we kept going with the lessons.




It was great though because time flew without even knowing it.
Its great to have such small classes because we can take our time and discuss everything in depth and the kids can ask questions.
We covered some great topics like animals and their different types of defense mechanisms, carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, the different types of teeth, how the different types move, evolution, and archeology. This all lead to discussion of other topics not in the book such as Aero Dynamics, the Amazon, Boa Constrictors, submarines...We are not teaching today so that we can take Freda's kids to the pool, since we didn't get to go last week.
In our place Geoffrey will be teaching Swahili, lessons will continue tomorrow...

In the Streets

Before Andrew left today he went in town to say goodbye to some of the street kids we see everyday in town. These are the kids who for some reason refuse to come to Oasis. They say they are starving and we tell them Oasis will feed them for free, but they still choose to not come.

So sometimes if we have to go to the supermarket we'll buy an extra bag or two of bread and give it to some of the boys we meet...







This is Joseph, he's one of the older boys who "looks after" and supplies glue for the younger boys...






Sometimes they show up at Oasis, but most times we only see them on the streets. Its crazy and heartbreaking to look at boys like Martin, Evans, Bram, and Moses and know that was once them.

Strike!

Oasis



The teachers of Kenya have gone on strike to demand more money form the government. This only affects public schools, not private, so there are some schools that are still in session, like Purpose Driven and Kitale Family, where we have quite a few students.
Of course this still affects Kitale Forest and Milimani Primary, where we also have a ton of students. So instead of letting the kids just sit home and do nothing or possibly get themselves into trouble we decided to have the kids report to Oasis and the lower classes would be taught by Manu and Allison and I would teach class 7 and 8. She took Maths, English, and Creative Arts. I took Science, Social Studies, and CRE

All the kids reporting for school this morning


Ajix, Rael, Janet, and Dorcas


David, Pato, Wiki


Moses and Steward


Martin


Evans


Johnstone and Moses


I love Dorcas


Paul


Martin and Joseph




Yes, we actually had class...

The younger classes


Some of the older classes


Class 7


Class 8


Today also happened to be Andrew's last day...



The whole group


Up next is Allison and I...I'm not sure what to do considering I've been crying the entire time Ive been writing this blog...Dear Lord, "Beer me strength."