Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Basic Training - One…two…three…four.  A…B…C…D.  Red…green…yellow…blue.  Life trains us, ready or not. 

Correction:  Sandy just told me that green is not a basic color, it’s a secondary color in case you didn’t know.  Life trains us ready or not.

Today I planned to present Accounting 101 to members of the WOYG (youth) in a half-hour.  Lucky for them, that half-hour never materialized.  They had better watch out on Friday though.

Instead, we started the day with Sandy spending a couple of hours training and observing our two play school teachers while I read the newspaper and took a nap

Then, just before noon, we had a brief meeting with the Watafutaji officers and committee chairs  

and fed everybody around with sausages, peanut butter sandwiches, and soda.  The next two hours zipped by as we sat back and observed Eric Lijodi begin training five youths from the WOYG on the installation, care, maintenance, and workings of Friendly Water for the World BioSand water filters.  

We avoided the usual matatu ride to Kakamega by hitching a ride back to the hotel with Eric, thus also avoiding Accounting 101.  We celebrated a short restful day with “Olympic” onion rings.