Play at the Swedish society

Today I spent a couple of hours making hamburgers for a play in the Swedish school. It was the play "come we stay" performed by a group from Nakuru called playmakers. We sold quite a lot of hamburgers, bud we only made about 14000 Ksh. All the money goes to projects in Kenya with Swedes involved. It was fun and I talked to a lot of Swedish people who were new to Nairobi. When I told them I was in the Westgate terror attack, everyone was very interested. I enjoyed the theatre play and thought play makers did a good job!

School visit

It felt good to visit the school in Mathare. All the children are very loving and happy and gives us lots of kisses and hugs! They always love to have their photo taken. Unfortunately, moms nice camera was stolen from our car in Westgate, so I had to use my I-phone to take this photo of my mom and a happy student. We brought soap, toiletpaper, notebooks, pens, candy and even a small computer for Dixon, the principal. It was a very nice visit and I felt happy and appreciated going back home. I'll think of more ways to help the school. Maybe go out and read for the small children in kindergarden and "baby class".

A thousand paper cranes

This is me in full make-up. Do I look like a dead japanese grandmother? Due to the terrorist attack, we are only doing two performances. We were supposed to do a whole week, but due to the insecurity right now, we cut back. We also had a few problems in the production. One of our actors got appendix problems and had to go into surgery. Another actor took his part and played it only after two rehearsals.

Terrorist attack in westgate

On september 21, we had a terrorist attack in Westgate mall. I was there with my mother looking for new gym shoes. Luckily we escaped after hiding in our car. Due to this, my cas activity plans did not turn out as I expected. I find it hard to concentrate on anything but the basic school work now, but I keep up both Taekwondo and MMA as well as the theatre rehearsals.

Westgate attack film

Taekwondo

I really need to start training for my 1:st dan black belt, Or I guess it's the 2:nd. I need to review poomses 1-8 and tae guk 9 (a new one). When you're a black belt, it takes a year to do your 2:nd dan, 3 years to take your 4:th dan etc. Now is also the time to start training other people. I am assisting trainer now and are thinking that when I go to college it will be a good job for me. Both earning my points to be able to grade and get payed for it! I'm still training taekwondo three times a week and will be graded again by christmas, so I think I'm in good shape!

New school project

We have come such a long way with our work in Excellent school, so we are starting to sponsor a new school in the same area (Mathare slums). It's not that we are abandoning Excellent, we just feel that more kids should benefit from our fund raising. As before, we are only going to work with building and buying school rooms, black boards and desks. This new school is called Destiny and there are 215 students in the ages of 4 to 13. The school is located in a church that the school board rent every week-day. We know Dixon, the head of the school since his time in Excellent. Many of the children in Destiny have learning disabilities and are orphans. I'm excited working with this project. To see how far my brother got with Excellent, it feels good to have a brand new project of my own.
Here are some photos I took while visiting the school on Saturday:

A good gift from Oakland school.

Today Max gave me and my family a beautiful cake, to thank us for buying them books and toys. I also suspect it was for selling my dads old car to the school to a very good price... It is so encouraging to get a gift like this and I really feel appreciated!