Only a few fainted

The boys got off to High School this morning at 10.30ish. They were finally enrolled in school at 4.30 p.m. According to Mary, (our manager who drew the short straw for the long day and went with them), “some boys fainted in the line while they were waiting”. Not ours I hasten to add. Duncan, (our farm manager who is an ‘old boy’ of the school that the boys are now attending), told me that each year about 400 new students are enrolled at the school. Hence the long wait to get in. As if that wasn’t bad enough he also said that the dinner queues were ‘quite long’. I guess its all part of growing up in Kenya. Probably character forming stuff. I just hope that the better qualities, (like patience and thinking about the needs of others), win out over the ‘law of the jungle’. They are all good lads. I’m sure they’ll do the right thing and be stronger for it. TIA.

It doesn’t look like we’ll be moving into our new school buildings until Wednesday at the earliest. More progress has been made but there are still a few outstanding ‘last finish’ jobs, (like making sure the off cuts off glass used for the windows are all tidied away). We have a meeting with the contractor tomorrow and I’ve prepared an ‘agreed actions’ schedule to fill in. I’ll keep you posted on progress.

Ian, Hilda and I are developing a growing optimism that we will receive our work permits this month. The friend who is helping us to chase them up sent a text today to say that it is now time to pay for the work permits. We haven’t received official notification of this yet, but our friend will be travelling to Nairobi on our behalf tomorrow to, hopefully, take the next steps. Once the necessary payment has been made to the officials in the immigration department it should only be a short time until we are issued with ‘alien registration cards’. Being an official alien will be an interesting experience.