November 3rd
So, not really too much exciting today, I didn’t have class because
the principal decided that since the 50th anniversary celebration of
the school is tomorrow they were going to have a “cleaning” day.
Which annoyed me, I came to teach let me teach already, especially
since there are no classes until next Monday. So today, I went to the
school during class hours, about 2pm or so, classes go from 1pm to
6pm, to paint the blackboards, especially the one in my classroom
cause it’s horrible, and NO ONE WAS THERE. On top of that the place
is still a mess, with trash all over. I was really not happy, I could
understand wanting to clean the school, but to cancel class to have
a work day and then not be working during class hours so I could have
had another day with some of my students… utterly frustrating.
Oh well, I just don’t understand, they want the students to pass the
WASSCE and then spend so much time canceling class. Moving on
before I really begin ranting. I got my black-board holes filled and the
board painted, I’m going to have to put on another coat because we
used caulking to fill the holes and the blackboard paint didn’t stick
to it very well. Right now there is a little rabbit sleeping on my lap. I
know I keep going on about Hunter but he is SO adorable, and he
seems to be recovering nicely, he had such an appetite this evening, it
made me really happy. He still has a sore leg, he doesn’t move around
real well, but I’ve examined his bones but they seem intact so I’m
hoping it’s just a temporary soreness. I got really mad at Abu tonight
because he grabbed Hunter and was not being very careful with him.
It is ridiculous how attached I’ve become to this little rabbit, I was
very worried Abu was going to hurt him. Tomorrow night as part of
the celebration stuff for the school, they having speakers and stuff,
one of the kids, Daniel, told me he was a chaplain, for what I don’t
know, and he is speaking, but he wants to show is the Jesus film
tomorrow night for all the students, which made got me really
excited, since many of the students at the school are not Christians
according to Daniel, so I’m hoping we can work that out because
that would be awesome, showing the Jesus film and Daniel having a
chance to talk about Christ to the students. Overall it was a pretty
slow day, Karen leaves Friday to go pick up Tom in Freetown, so it
will be my first night without either of them here, so we’ll see how
that goes, I’m feeling pretty good so it should go ok. And they will
be returning Saturday night so it’s not like they’ll be gone long,
and they’ll be bringing back the work team of 8 or 9 as well, I’ve
heard both numbers so I’m not really sure. I’m feeling very conflicted
about something, I’ve been conflicted about it for a very long
time, but I don’t really want to share it at the moment, especially
in so public a forum, so if you could just pray for guidance and
wisdom for an unsaid prayer request that would be really great,
thanks. Well, I guess that’s about it for tonight. Missing you all.

Prayers and Blessings from Kamakwie,
Ryan Brooks