My final week in Kenya was extremely stressful. I wrote quite a bit about it but have decided to move on to happier trails. However, I will leave you with the following excerpt as just one of the days that I experienced: I’m sitting on a stool in my dimly lit hotel room with my […]
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School Search Success (And it includes hot showers!)
I have been writing about searching for a secondary boarding school for someone who is like my little brother in Kenya. If you’ve missed them, you might want to catch up on the previous posts before reading the final post in this series: The School Search Begins The Time I Cried in the Principal’s Office Gaichanjiru: […]
Gaichanjiru: Don’t Cry This Time
I have been writing about searching for a secondary boarding school for someone who is like my little brother in Kenya. If you’ve missed them, you might want to catch up on the previous posts first: The School Search Begins The Time I Cried in the Principal’s Office Gaichanjiru: Could This Be It? We reach the […]
Gaichanjiru: Could This Be It?
I have been writing about searching for a secondary boarding school for someone who is like my little brother in Kenya. If you’ve missed them, you might want to catch up on the previous posts first: The School Search Begins The Time I Cried in the Principal’s Office John was three days into the tenth […]
The Time I Cried in the Principal’s Office
Our first couple of days trying to find a new boarding school for John were a complete failure. I’m navigating a country’s education system that is completely foreign to me, and trying to figure it out in a matter of days. The school year had already started so if I wanted to transfer John, I […]
The School Search Begins
When I was talking to my best friend the other night, she told me that she was looking forward to reading about our school search for John… and then she chuckled. Just a little. And then it dawned on me… “I think I’m going to omit the part where I cried in the principal’s office.” […]