I'm not afraid a trembling flower...

I'll feed your heart and blow the dust from your eyes.....

So many questions answered in just one phone call. 

Through a stroke of luck a while back I was contacted by the founder of the charity Education for All, this man that has worked tirelessly providing education tools and resources to the Ndururuno Secondary school in the slums of Nairobi.  Since our first meeting he has proven to be a mine of information and advice, he is just one of the fantastic people I've come in contact with since this whole journey began. 

I recently caught up with him and his wife and he told me how only the day before he had met with the project co-ordinator for So They Can.  The Kiwi who has been in charge of the projects and school in Nakuru. This is the person with the answers, this is who I really need/want to speak to, so I made contact with him and yesterday we talked.  

Me being me, I had a list of questions, and he was fantastic he had all the answers, and more. I really appreciated that he was blunt, and down to earth, was no sugar coating and romanticizing he spoke of the complexities faced daily because of what the people of this community have seen and had to deal with, he told me the honest nitty gritty stuff, of children arriving from the dump, with no idea of their age or even their name, with little or no language skills.  

For the past 6 years I've worked within a school that has a large population of children who speak little or no English, and though I've not been in a class situation with these children, I've worked alongside them on a daily basis, and children are children, so the thought of little or no common language doesn't phase me, but it does make me realise I need to step up my game on learning the basics of Swahili, but to be honest I know the total immersion into the culture and language will be a better teacher than any phrase book I can download.  

I'm ready to go now, If I could jump on a plane tomorrow and start living this dream I would... need to just bide my time, I just have to get over my biggest fear, this damn auction... it's still terrifying me, it's still waking me up at night with a raft of  "what if's" but I'm a big girl, I'll be fine. 

Asante
Jacq