1 Mar 2025

His house is typical to Kenyan:  wood frame clad in iron sheets.  Painted with what looks like red lead paint with no reflective value.  The sun was overhead and the inside today was nearly 40 C.  His lovely caregiver, Esther, served me hot tea "like Kenyan mothers make it", with a dollop of honey.  A hot drink on very hot day in a hot corrugated iron box never tasted so good, hydrating me so well.  Thank you Esther!  I tolerate this heat better than I would have imagined, and I think the answer is the water I consume.   I have let it go too long and I begin to feel not quite right, but a good gulp of water seems to set things aright.

A student dropped by and I knew him well from yesterday.  It was Peterson, the deputy coach of the winning football team.  Lots of questions and the three of us had a long visit.

What do Mully College students do on the weekend?  A lot of personal  chores, some extra classroom preps and travel to Nairobi/Thika are common.  The mothers are particularly busy on the weekend just catching up with laundry and having fun with their children.  The lives of the Mully College students are filled with much the same kind of things young people like anywhere in the world, except there is a purpose and a focus in their social gatherings.  I noticed that social time is spend in activities like the drop-in singing group pictured rather than parties/dance clubs etc. one would expect in the west.

Typically leisure and social time is spend around shared talents and interests.  At MCF, given the opportunities for a real constructive life given to them for free, these students stay away from stuff that could jeopardize their chances as found at MCF.