Sometimes it’s the little things in life that amaze me. The students arrive at school early every day
and begin sweeping the classrooms, the courtyard and the sidewalks. No one tells them to do it. Everyone
shows up here in clean pressed clothes.
Some of the students don’t have electricity or water. They walk for miles or take the daladala to
get here. How can anyone ride a daladala
and not end up with wrinkled clothes. Somehow
they do it. Can you imagine any of this
happening anywhere in the US?
Today one of the GHTA students, Shadrack, asked me for some
help after class because he didn’t understand some English vocabulary. He wanted to know the difference between the
words “ordinary” and “ordain.” We sat
and I explained the differences between the two words. He then told me that the Swahili/English
dictionary he used had the same definition for both words. English is hard
enough without but having a confusing dictionary makes it even harder. I have to admit that I was really amazed
that he thought to ask the question. How
many of us would have looked in the dictionary for a definition and said, “Oh,
so that’s what that means.” Guilty!
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