Honestly, I feel like I am back at summer camp in MN right now, because most of the days are structured for the girls like camp (minus beach time and campfires). Each day the girls wake up at 5:30 to jog, eat breakfast, collect water from the faucet (for a while now the water has not been flowing through the pipes to the dorms, so the girls need to fill up buckets between 7 and 8 when the water is turned on at one faucet on campus.) Then they go to chapel, and then start their classes for the day which end about 2:30. They have lunch, freetime and chores (slashing the grass, doing laundry, and helping prepare the food), before evening chapel at 5:00 and then dinner and studying until lights out at 10:30. Weekends are little more flexible in the afternoons with activities and movie nights on Saturday. The girls work very hard to maintain the school and keep up with their studies. They have two long breaks during the year where they go home to spend time with their families and they have a couple weekends where their families can visit them at school.
(L: Form 2 eating beans and maize for dinner, M: Girls studying outside, R: Girls collecting water in the morning)
Each of the girls has a school uniform to wear during the week, but they can wear everyday clothing during freetime. The school uniform is a MaaSae Girl's t-shirt, a skirt, white socks, black shoes and a red sweater. Each Form has a different colored shirt.
The girls are really not allowed to go outside the school premises without permission, but on this afternoon two girls were allowed to escort me to the market and show me around Monduli. They enjoyed getting out of the school, have a snack at a local cafe and I enjoyed getting to know them better!
(Neema balancing the goods from the market on her head and me attempting to do the same. I don't get how they balance while they walk!)
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