Hanging out in Destiny

Thursday and Friday, I had no classes because of the parent - teacher conferences so I managed to go to the school in the slums. When we go there we usually take a big highway, go through the whole slum to the big road on the other side and then back into the slums again. There is another quite big road we can take, but because of all the attacks and bombings that has been taken place on that road we hardly ever use it. Today however we did. Nothing has happened there for some time so our driver thought it was safe. My mom told me to close the windows and take of my earphones. This road divides the Mathare slums from Eastleigh, the somali neighbourhood in Nairobi.

Once in school I was really treated as a rock star. The kids wanted to touch my skin and my hair and hold my hand. Usually they can be a bit shy but I think that because all the older classes were away, they got the chance to spend more time with us. I'm always surprised by how happy and sweet they are, even though they lead a tough life in the slums. I'm also very happy for helping them building toilets and a shower and Dixon is saying that the new toilets are much safer for the smaller children.

I also visited a class in grade five who were in one of the rooms we payed for. They were also very happy and sweet. Everyone wanted to have their picture taken with me. Usually I do most of the photographing, but today I got to be in the pictures.

Running water in the toilets

Toilets that you can flush

Hanging out with the 6:th graders

Talking about Maths

Participating in class