Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Sita tatu la Kiswahili (Day three of Swahili)

 
Alex, Anne, Sydney,  Yusto the language teacher, and Anastasia

We began our third day of Swahili class today and it has been a lot of information to keep up with. We added over fifty new vocabulary words and went through all the numbers in a span of four hours, but slowly some of the language is sinking in. By the afternoon small group session, the overwhelming amount of information started to show its effect. Luckily, at least for my group, our teacher gave a “license to kill” the language in hopes that it will help us learn it better. We will see how far we get by Thursday, our last lesson of the trip. The morning started off rainy, but hakuna shida (no worries) it cleared up and the ground dried enough for us to walk to the orphanage. This time we brought donations from home along for the kids to play with. They THOROUGHLY enjoyed everything. There were some moments where sharing the toys became an issue, but overall they seemed thankful and happy with what we brought. Thanks to everyone who helped us collect the items, we couldn’t have done it without you!

  
 

Meghan and Paige with the kids


 


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