Designing a folder for Oakland

Today I designed a new folder for Oakland. Mercy emailed me a lot of nice images on activities they have in the school. They do both sports, drama and reading. They even got a few second hand lap-tops for the students. She is hoping for a larger number of children to enroll for next year, so she can get the economy they need. I hope this folder will help them!

Certificate for Oakland

The Kenyan semester has almost come to a close. Mercy asked me if I could design certificates for the students graduation from Oakland. I know she is very busy, so I printed them too. I'm hoping the students will be happy with this award and that it will inspire the smaller children to work hard. I will also try to visit the school when they start the new semester.

Auditioning again for the major MS play

The name of the main middle school play is "Around the world in 8 plays". I auditioned on monday and was asked to do my piece in a shy and embarassed way. It was very interesting and fun. There were not so many auditioning on monday, but a lot more came on tuesday. On wednesday we got our parts. I'm playing "old lady", "queen" and "wife". We are starting rehearsals on monday and I'm very excited!

Practising for 2:nd dan black belt

This is very complicated! I need to learn two new poomses for my grading in the end of November. Look at the movie where I practise the Koreo poomse with Max:

A week in Masaai Mara

I went on a IC trip with school two last week. We spent the whole week in Masaai Mara, helping 

the Maasai people. During this trip we did many activities but my favourite was building and tree planting. Those where also two of the most physical activities there were on the trip. We also carried water, did some beading and travel to some places around the area. When we went to build it was more pic axing and shoveling than building. The tree planting was quite similar. We pic axed and then we shoveled and planted the tree. In beading Mama Leah showed us how to bead on leather which was lots of fun. We also went to carry water. Me and my partner picked a 20 litre jar to carry 1.5 kilometers there and then back. Wen we traveled we were divided into groups and then as a family we had to bargain for supplies. After that we went to the girls high school where some of the students gave us a tour. The girls who helped organize the schedule their work day which ended up being 17 hours long and that really inspired me to help as much as I can. Their local hospital was the next stop. The hospital was build by only volunteers. The setting was very calm and controlled which I would say is a great thing. Theses are the major things we did during our trip except for the last day which was a walk, weapons training and then spending some time with the school which we were building.

Buying t-shirts for cancer

Salome who works in our local hair dresser shop has started a project to fight cancer. We bought three t-shirts for 3000 Ksh to help her in her struggles.

Blocking with Tora

I am practising blocking with Tora - a Swedish girl in 11:th grade. The trick is to block out a touch on the head. Every touch gives one point. This is a great excercise I often perform with Tom, my trainer - but he is always cheating.