Latest Photos..........virtually complete classroom!

And kitchen complete to targeted level (up to ringbeam height). All that's now left is a few final painting jobs for tomorrow morning and the inevitable tidying!

 

 

Jaimy here. IT'S FINISHED!!! The team put in a huge effort mixing what seemed like a million tonnes of cement which was used to level the classroom floor and make the veranda. The spare was used to complete the kitchen as far as we can (most of the brick laying done). All that needs doing now is tidying up around site and a small amount of tittervating. 

Just before tea the blazers came back from the tailors and many photos were taken including a class of kenya 2013 with John Don as head teacher. 

We hosted a very nice traditional English dinner with pork, mash and veg for some of the locals that have helped us from the start and during our visit. People like Father Peter, Rafael (the head teacher) and Vincent and Mark our local builders. There was then many speaches and exchanging of gifts (mainly kneckers) and a big BRAVO for all their hard work making this trip possible and ensuring that the classroom was finished. 

The mood around camp tonight is very up beat and we're all looking forward to the grand opening of the classroom and the relaxation period. Whoop!! 

Oh look a flamingo.. and another one.. and another...

Rest day finally!! Time for team 5 to have a break, plus Alex C, minus Adam who jumped ship two days before.

The day started with the discovery of a flock of lesser spotted Japanese tourists in their natural habitat on top of a safari jeep, with strange appenditures attached to their hands and faces. After the distraction of that sighting we saw just a few flamingos, sorry a few thousand flamingos. Which at least to my surprise were a lot smaller than I thought they would be, and not that pink.

After this Karen came into her own with an outstanding display of off road driving to deliver us all safely to the hot springs. A quick conversion into Chef Karen and we all got to tuck into a lovely soft boiled egg cooked to perfection in the springs.

A bumpy ride back, whilst stopping to take pictures of various animals from mongoose to warthog and dik-dik to little squirrel things we arrived at the spa resort only to spot 3 more L. Spotted Japanese tourists running across the car park in just towels, this strange behaviour was noted and laughed at by all of us.

After "entertainment" from some Kenyan Uni students Karen and I received a lovely present from one of the lecturers (who was 7ft tall and built like a tank) in the form of a dive bomb splashing a dozing Karen and distracted me. The rest of the team were in stitches at that point. We weren't impressed!

We had a pretty lazy afternoon sleeping, swimming and scoffing our faces full of steak and chips. John and Nick even had  a strawberry milkshake (though they weren't sure what they had ordered).

When we arrived back to site they were playing football against the Marigat sports academy and by the look of it getting totally thrashed, as indicated by their keeper lying down for the majority of the game. A brief game of rugby and we all heading back to the barn.

And now we must go as I believe dinner is about to be served, Parmo and Chips, how very Boro!

Night night from Lotti and the rest of team 5 (plus Alex minus Adam)

A nearly finished classroom (with a blackboard almost complete!)

The roof and the rendering is complete!!!!
We will be completing the verandah and making finishing touches over the next few days.

Dancing on the trusses

Once upon a time, there was a man named Vincent (the Kenyan builder) many tales have been told of his epic truss dancing skill. As I witnessed this 8 wonder of the world, completing the tin sheet roof today with the man who is now know as tall man, Adam. 

Karen delayed tea today after taking a large delivery from the refugee camp, when tea was served Karen decided that hers would be better on her lap. 

Tomorrow the more adventures male members of the expedition will collect their tailored jackets produced by the tailors that we accidentally turned into a sweatshop. Look forward to the spectacle of the male members.   

So the building is going great with the whole roof now complete and half the windows glazed. With 3 building days left, and only the veranda left to lay and the last few windows to glaze, we are ahead of progress. 

Niall 

Putting the final tin sheets onto the window side of the building this afternoon and the rendering on the wall was also completed.  Well done to those who worked so hard on one of the hottest days so far.



A visit to Lake Bogoria, the lake that Attenborough featured in his Africa series. From left to right; Adam Vaslet, Tom Scott and Andy Jarvis.

Cameron here

Greetings from Kenya,

No James with me today as he is busy writing his diary , however he does say a big hello and hopes everyone is ok. Since the last time I updated the blog lots of progress has been made on the classroom. Today half of the roof has been put in place and we are very close to finishing the outside rendering. Yesterday was team 2 on rest day. We went to lake Bogoria for a driving sufari ( not sure on that spelling ) we saw lots of animals. And just for you auntie D I took lots of photos of them and I'm sure James did too. Just a few more days here in Marigat then we are off to crayfish camp. Looking forward to coming home in 11 days time. And don't worry I have bought lots of gifts. Hope everyone is ok at home.

Bye for now,

Cameron

PS my phone has died so will not be able to text when we land in Heathrow.