My Visit With Maruge Day 2

Maruge woke my family and me up at 7:00, saying that if we were going to get to school by 8:30 we had to start getting ready. We all got dressed, and after a quick breakfast we headed off to school. We hailed a bus/van, which was so rickety I thought it was going to give out any second!

Emmanuel said if you were to convert the bus fare to dollars, it would only be 8 cents. When we got to the school, I recognized some of the kids that ran up to greet us on our first day. My family got seated kin desks, but I felt bad because the teacher made some kids sit on the floor to give us desks. I volunteered to sit on the floor, but the teacher, Jane, wouldn't hear it. She was very kind, and had a very interesting was of teaching, and not in a bad way.

Of course the work wasn't hard for me, but I learned some tricks I didn't know before for simple adding. At lunch and break, I was blown away by how much energy these little kids had stored inside them. Some of them would literally run non-stop with their friends for the whole period! I tried to keep up with them, but I didn't have the energy to.

After school, Jane came up to us and told us that she enjoyed having us in her class, which was a very nice gesture.

We then headed to the market to buy some supplies for dinner that night. We were going to have Irio, which essentially is balls of lots of vegetables mixed together, and dipped in a meat stew. It wasn't as good as the last nights dinner, but it was still very good.

My family and Maruge then took a walk around the village, recruiting people to walk with us as we went. We all told stories, and had a very good time until, before I knew it, we were back at Maruges house. The crowd dispersed, and we hit the sack. Before I went to sleep, I looked at the clock, and it was 12:00 AM! No wonder I was so tired.