And So A New School Year Begins

I've had a busy month and a half off of school and I was lucky enough to enjoy it with friends and family.      The biggest highlight of course would be meeting my father and being able to spend Christmas on a safari in one of the national parks. We got to see a full arched rainbow so close that we could see where the pot of gold was located, all the while a pack of lions was sitting in front of this said rainbow. It was just amazing :) Also during the trip my father got to come back to my site and get the true experience of visiting a kenyan home, which means eating so much to point of needing to unbutton your pants but this is not possible since you are in someone elses house. 

I am now back at my site trying to get mentally prepared for this new school year. But luckily since I am in Kenya this means that I have the pleasure of being on Kenyan time. The teachers were supposed to have a meeting yesterday to start the school year off, which means of course that the meeting was held today instead. And since the students first have to have exams to start the term, this means that I don't start to teach until mid next week. Ahhhh how nice. I have an entire week and a half to get mentally prepared to begin teaching again. There are still those moments that are so typical to Peace Corps volunteers where I question how much longer I can make it. But then those moments are counteracted with high moments which reconfirm why I'm here. So I bring this up because as I was sitting in the staff meeting today thinking about the coming school year, I began to wonder how I will be able to do this all again for an entire year. I mind started to spin thinking of the long hours that will be spent waiting for meetings to begin, hours spent preparing lessons, and material for class, and of course the long hours spent sitting alone in my house at night often staring at the geckos crawling on the walls. However after the meeting a student who I never even taught last year came up and greeted me excitedly and happily, my mind slowly began to settle realizing that I can actually do this for another year.