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More Video, You Say!

I also think it makes sense to start posting more videos.  As things become more routine for me, I feel less inclined to write updates, so videos can reveal what exactly this “routine” is.  Here are two to start with.

This is Class 3 Creative Arts.  We play Vocabulary Bingo about once a week.  I don’t actually do much since I’ve already taught them the rules, and the winner of each round runs the next round.  Another volunteer was visiting, however, so she managed to get some (brief) footage of me in one of the clips.

And this is me washing a sock.  This is designed to convey how much I hate laundry.  Don’t expect to be thrilled.

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Fightin’ words

The strike is on and we shall not relent until the Government gives us our demands 100 per cent. The Government must prepare for the mother of all strikes. Learning will be paralysed everywhere in the country.
-Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Chairman George Wesonga

As always, the boldface emphasis is mine.
Source: http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144004398&cid=4

So tomorrow it looks like, instead of teaching, I’ll be using my brand new iron and ironing board to smooth out wrinkles!  Hm, it’s hard to get too excited about it.  Well, on a related note, I promised some pictures, and since today was laundry day, you get to see some wet clothes. (They’re still drying outside.)

First, the setting: my courtyard.  The entry gate on the right, choo/bathroom doorway in the center, and the door to my home is on the left.  The green bucket on the ground is my bathtub.  Yes, it’s a glamorous life here in Kenya.

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Three hours worth of laundry: enough to make nudism seem tempting.

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This spider was not very happy that I took over his courtyard.  Cool yellow spots though.

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The weekend was nice in that I took a break from education theory.  I can get pretty worked up when I’m in research mode, so I made it a point to walk around town to do some shopping for the new home.  Tomorrow I’ll be playing it by ear (a regretful idiom) but will hopefully still get a chance to talk with the headmaster about plans for my teaching role.

Lastly, in my attempts to save even more bandwidth (and money), I changed a lot of things in my own setup, so I updated the Phone Tricks page accordingly, this time with a lot more detail in the laptop software section.  (I even wrote a custom Javascript plugin for Firefox, which you can download.)