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Strike School: XO Laptops Keep Kids Learning
... in a school of more than 500, he knew the students). He talked to them about the strike.
The students are very worried that they are missing so much school. They love their school and think that their teacher’s are "wonderful" (their words). They also believe that the teachers
have a right to ask for more pay. They are just hoping, along with everyone else in the country, that the strike will end soon.
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Masai Mara
... all together, and Noah bumped the truck across the paddocks and over the hills till a Masai village appeared out of nowhere. Presumably they had mobile phones and were expecting us, as they were dressed in their traditional robes ready to greet us.
After shaking hands, and double counting the US$35 they extracted from each of us, they started the well rehearsed show. The chief's son wearing a lion's head led the warrior ...
A Kenyan kaleidoscope, part 2
... us a more contemporary-sounding song, the title of which he translated (seriously) as Tell me when you’re coming around and I’ll slaughter a goat.
Our stay felt much, much longer than the two days that it was and we were sad to leave. We hope to keep in touch with Lepapa and perhaps one day even visit his home; he’s building the first house made of wood in his village (he’s sick of his books getting wet in his current mud hut).
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Roughing it? I don't think so....
... Lion King be without Timon. Nicholas explained that none of the places that we were going would have meer cats but they would have banded mongoose. The banded mongoose have similar traits like traveling in groups. When they get separated on of the mongoose will stand on the highest point and call the others to him. They were very far in the distance but you could see a bunch of them scattering over the ground. So exciting!
We saw more ...
A dream come true - our African Safari!
... was imminent. About ten minutes later David took off without warning, and announced “They’re crossing up here”. We zoomed along the dirt road for about 3 minutes and caught the tail end of the crossing – the last of the zebras were heading up our side. Darn, if we’d left when David suggested we would have seen it! Then we saw one little wildebeest who had been left behind, venturing down the slope. David said that it would be ...
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