This is the primary and nursery school. There is another school building behind these two that houses the secondary students. They are also in the process of constructing a fourth building. The school has over a thousand students. Each class has about 30 to 40 students.
This is one of the school busses that bring some of the children to school.
This is the house where Kaitlin and I live. It is very close to the house where the sisters live.
The school has a very nice view of the city of Enugu. We live on the outside of the city, but it is still very populated and very noisy.
This house is home to the ten sisters that live in this community.
These lizards are everywhere! They can be up to a foot long. For the most part they seem scared of humans, but I have seen a couple that were a little more aggressive.
The secondary school has a soccer team, but they call it football. They are the ones in green. Unfortunately we lost this game. I honestly don't know how they play in the heat. It was probably a hundred degrees during this game and several were even playing without shoes on. It's pretty impressive!
Hi Kaci - I was just looking over the pictures again and are those statues on the building in the first photo???? Interesting place to put them! Love the lizard photo...very colorful. When I lived in Puerto Rico we had lizards running all over the place and in our house all the time. You get used to the small ones. I don't think we ever had a huge one in the house. Except for the time an iguana got in! That was a fun day...getting it cornered in the hallway and the retired neighbor man down the street came up to get him out of our house. No iguanas (or humans) were harmed in this process, I might add...
ReplyDeleteThe soccer photo is cool...will need to show Charlie! We were talking last night about playing soccer and how you can get yourself acclimated to certain conditions. Working out at high altitudes helps which is why so many of the Olympians go to Colorado to train. I imagine that is the case with these guys playing soccer. Oh, and we watched a story on 60 Minutes about a woman training for the Boston marathon and how she may be the one person (female) who can beat the Kenyans this coming year! I don't know...we joked about how the Kenyans could probably win it running barefoot and then you posted this photo...it's just a different way of life!
So my question is this? When you return in a year...will you be running barefoot?
Hummm......
xoxo
Teresa
Those are statues on the front of the building. I dread the day when one of those lizards gets into my room. I feel like it's bound to happen, because they are everywhere!
DeleteI doubt I'll be running around barefoot, but I guess anything is possible.
Do the children in Enugu know about the "Easter bunny"? I would love to see their faces as you try to explain it. I'm 44 and I still don't understand it. LOL I had a patient call today and ask for a refill on his incontinence medication because he didn't want to "pee" on the Easter Bunny. Enjoy these moments Kaci, even the odd ones ;) Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteThat's very funny! The Easter bunny doesn't appear to visit Nigeria, but that would be an interesting thing to try and explain. Happy Easter to you too!
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