Purple rain, purple rain.

Now about the Monday that we had that meeting I told you all about.

We were actually supposed to get to school at 8am, so that the meeting was the first thing done that day. Though we couldn't get up early enough because of the late night we had on Sunday (we took the family out for diner, and announced to Esther that… I will tell you more about that later). So we got there at 9am. Nothing to worry about, since we weren't late for any class that day (Swahilli time!)
We  started our day by grading some homework from the day before. Once that task was finished, I got up and approached Teacher Samuel and reminded him about the meeting. 'Of course Ann! I'll look for Teacher Priscillah and we may start the meeting right away!'.

So there we were. Me and Chelsea on one side of the desk, Teacher Samuel and Priscillah on the other. I started the meeting by greeting them (African Style) and announcing the porpoise of it "To discuss funding matters". Once both teachers realized what I just said, their facial expression just changed. 'Oh my! Thank you so much! We were wondering why you wanted this meeting to happen! We thought it was because you were unhappy with the school and wanted to complain!', Teacher Samuel said. We both laughed for the misunderstanding and wondered how would have been their weekend (thinking about the Monday morning meeting).

The rest of the meeting went smoothly. We first asked what did they needed for the school and what were their expectations for this 'injection'. I was surprised with their answer! I thought (maybe too cliche and impertinent of me…) they would ask something superfluous for the school so that the usage of that something would be for limited people… But no. Their main concern were the classrooms: 'They need to be painted and we need new desks and chairs', Teacher Samuel said, 'And we need new text books too!' Teacher Priscillah added.

Pupils in class 6West.

Both me and Chelsea completely agreed on their opinion, though we had some other ideas… 'Well, you know that our funding injection is limited, we do not have unlimited money to spend here' - both teacher nodded in agreement - 'So, our idea for the intervention is, instead f TRYING to help 600 students, we want to actually help the 20 teachers. We want to get new desks, chairs, cabinets and lockers for the staffroom. This way, you can be more productive and happier about teaching in Olekasasi.' Teacher Priscillah remained quiet for a while, soaking in all that just hit her. Teacher Samuel kept thanking us and saying that 'Any help is more than welcome here!'. We got to know that Olekasasi Primary School gets per year per student the amount of 1020 KSHS (approx. 13USD). So you can imagine how hard it is to get stationary material, new text books and keeping with maintenance of the school with that budget. 'It's really hard…', said finally Teacher Priscillah.

When the meeting was over me and Chelsea went to Science class with 6West. This time we started the Plants' Unit! Again the kids were so focused in what we were saying, and if there was one disturbing the class, they were the first one to shut the disturber up! Amazing… You ask a question and 10 students raise their hand saying 'Tche! Tche!', meaning 'Teacher me me me!'.

After this class was Break time. Me an Chelsea were tired of homework marking, so we heeded outside to play with some kids. After we went back inside. We finished marking all the homework's, cause the next day we were going to Kibera and Ngong.

We walked home and it started to rain.