Kenya vs America

 

Well  I  love  America because of the food!!! and I'm always  having fun with my cousins.And I have  way too much fun with Nickel City and Lagoon.   But Kenya feels different,  the food is different, the general  environment is different, even the air is different that's what makes it so awesome! And you can't compete with the outstanding view of the the golden sun rise in the morning. For fun I get to go to beach and body board or chill out. I can't say  which one I  favor.  
Sports, sports, sports in America for me consist of basketball, tennis,  and American football. I really miss basketball and American football like the excitement of the shooting thought the net. Also the adrenaline of running and scoring a touchdown. But i'm being sucked into British sports like cricket and football these spots may seem boring and un fun but there surprisingly joy-able and exciting as in my first cricket mach I managed to bowl a wicket in my first game ever! And most of you who don't know what a wicket is look it up its a very complicated game witch will be a challenge for you to figure out how the game works. As for football i'm playing in my first mach i'm waiting for the ball to come to this side of the field for I am a defender once the ball comes to my side I stop the offending team from scoring and then I  watch as the ball i stopped went into the other goal. But to be honest I really do like American sports.
                             Schooling in America is very different from here, here we copy notes instead of learning how to use them, here we get a ten minute break and a 30 min lunch break there I would get a 30 min lunch break but a sorter day for here I have around 7 hour 30 min days. Here we do more projects. There they do more games.
                         I go on different types of trips here We go to the huts on the beach in Takaundu we eat amazing food wake up early in the morning a surf on the glass water with the reflection of the sun rise simmering throughout the water. But on the other hand in Utah we would we would go to lake pawl there we would sleep and early night on the house boat and wake up quiet early and have a delicious breakfast like truly prefect then we would stand into our swimming suits and hit the water.
We surf, body board, water ski, tube, and wake board.We do this until our legs can't hold our wait and then we retire to our beds. I really love both of these trips.
                     Kenya compared to America.
Here there is tons of people on the streets. In America it practically feels like a deserted ghost town.Here the roads are overflowing with tuktuks, Mattatos, and bodaboda's. There you see cars in a strait line!  Here we eat chapatti But if I had to choose one i would choose to experience this awesome experience longer.

                                                                                                                            

School

By Lilli Holmberg

Ever since I have been to this school I have been loving it! I have met so many new people and have done so many new things. Although I have been taking all these different classes I have been loving them all. I love all the teachers and all the teachers love me. I think my favorite teacher is my science teacher also my football teacher (soccer). He is so nice and is such a fun teacher, he also gives me the most house points which is good for Simba house. I have also been loving the sports I have been playing, I have been playing netball, football (soccer) and tennis. I have been playing on the school's soccer and netball team and have been doing tennis lessons with coach Soloman. It has been really fun experiencing these new sports and although I have made some fouls I get better every time I do it. I am so glad that I got a chance to be in this school and experience the British school way.

School Food Equals Poison

By Everett Fairbourne

No more! Just no more school food!
My school food is disgusting, because it has the top ten worst foods.

10: Dry pasta. (that comes in blocks)

9: Chicken and beef that are pink in the middle.

8:  Rice that smells rotten.

7: Sauce that tastes like #!$%.

6: Ice cream that taste like melted bread with milk.

5: Spaghetti that kills taste buds.

4: Sausage that is filled with death (the truck  that delivers it even says "?meat?")

3:  The potatoes;  how can you make a bad potato?

2: Lamb that has horrible spices

and now...

1: THE HOT DOGS!!!!!!!!!!! THEY TASTE RAW AND ROTTEN WITH BAD BREAD!!!!!!!!!

I was gaging during this blog.

But I finally have convinced my mom to let me take pack lunch.

The Question I'm Allways Asked

By Alta Fairbourne
At school, as you all know, my brothers and I are the only member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) in my whole school!  It can be really difficult because that leaves everyone with different beliefs. It's really hard sometimes to ignore all the swearing. Everyone is always asking me what I  believe; sometimes it can be hard to answer them.  Just lately my best friend Tasha was talking about how she is scared of dying because she says she just will be nothing forever. Right when she said that I asked her, " really? you think your spirit will disappear?  I believe that when you die your spirit travels back to the spirit world and once Jesus visits the earth we will all be resurrected and return to our bodies, but our bodies will be perfect again." I could tell she thought I was crazy, and all she would say was, "cool". This other time we were traveling to Nairobi for Hockey and it was in the morning and Tasha offered me some tea for breakfast and I told her sorry I don't drink tea, and she asked why not. I told I wanted to keep the present God gave me clean and healthy and I wanted to keep my body like a Temple. She accepted that and never offered me tea again. This is why I love living somewhere else and experiencing a new culture and meet lots of kids from all over the world who all believe different things and I love being a missionary and telling people about my beliefs.

Lilli H is in da' house!

By Lilli Holmberg  

  When I first heard that I was going to Africa for a term I was so excited I couldn't wait but when the days were getting closer I was getting more and more nervous about missing my family and friends but at the same time I was still excited to see my aunt,  uncle and cousins. When the day actually came I think the excitement took over me more. My uncle Jason slept over the day before we left. We woke up at 5:00am but I was so excited that I was not tired. For my last breakfast in Utah we went to this diner called "Sunshine Café" and it was so good. Finally we set off to the airport. We got on a small plane that was a 3 hour flight to Austin, Texas. Then it was a bigger plane from Austin, TX to Amsterdam that was like a 9 hour flight. Then from Amsterdam to Nairobi that was like a 8 hour flight and then finally a 1 hour flight to Mombasa, Kenya. On one of the flights I fell asleep on the person that was next to me that I didn't know and my took a picture of it but, the thing that was embarrassing was that I didn't know I was sleeping on her because I fell asleep on the armrest and slipped off onto her. When we got there it was like midnight and waiting for my uncle and I was my aunt and my cousin Alta, when we saw each other we just ran straight to one another and gave each other a huge hug. We got to their house everybody was awake and waiting for us, I gave everybody a big hug.
     My first day of school was on Wednesday and I was so excited to meet everybody. I was just followed my cousin Porter the whole time because I didn't know where my classes were or what was happening next. I noticed that the school here is totally different than any school I have been to in Utah. Probably the first thing I noticed is when you walk to your classes you walk outside because the hallways are outside and it is just more like a sidewalk. Second thing I noticed was the lockers, the lockers here are just like small wooden cubbies that are out side and seem totally different than the lockers that I would have thought they would have looked like. Third, I noticed that they call a lot of things different names then we call in America, like for example, instead of grades they call it years like you are in year 6 instead of being call you are in 6th grade and you have to say trousers instead of pants or they will think you are talking about your underpants and a lot more things. Forth thing would probably be that all the years (grades) from year 1 to year 12 are in one school together but the interesting thing is that when you go from America to Kenya you move up a grade because they do not have preschool nor do they have kindergarten but they start 1st grade a year earlier than us so when I was in Utah I was in 6th grade and then when I went to Kenya I was in year (grade) 7. I am still getting used to everything but I don't mind and I really enjoy experiencing a new school and meeting people.
     I can't wait to experience and try new things while I am here. I know I am going to have many adventures and many new stories to tell that.

Porter's Trip to Tsavo

By Porter Fairbourne

So around the end of last term we went on a trip to a place called Tsavo, the t is silent. It's like a safari. When we got there they had made a elephant out of poacher traps and it had 5 legs. So at first they said we could choose who we slept wit,h but then when we got there they chose our rooms and I was stuck with the year nines and year eights. The first thing we did was play soccer and just eat lunch which I think was good.  By time it was time to go to bed people already had plans of evilness. They were all going to wake up at 12:00 am and all meet together,  but since some people came out early the teachers stayed out there in till like 2:00 am. The next morning there was one very long lecture. That day we were going to go on two drives through Tsavo.  I saw it all except for lions and hippos and rhinos.  It was actually kind of boring because we only saw the animals for like 5 seconds and then they were gone.  Then we would drive 30 min to find another animal.  They said they run away because of poachers. When they see a car they think, "poachers run!!!"  We played with these hula-hoops for a long time and we just chased each other with them and threw them at people. The bus ride was sooo bad! Someone spilled a giant bottle of coke and it was going everywhere. You couldn't keep anything on the ground including you feet. Then we went on another drive and it was equally boring. When we were going home one year seven had to go in the other bus with the year 8s and year 9s and I bravely stepped forward mostly because this bus had A/C. The trip seemed really short.

Wasini Island

By Alta Fairbourne
Not too long ago my family and I left to a island called Wasini.  It was very pretty. The boat ride to our hotel took a while, but it was worth it. The hotel was very nice it had a big bed in the lounging area and hammocks. We were the only ones there, so we all got to have two people in each room. We went out and swam and hunted down some crabs,  which we all ended up with a couple of scratches due to the spiky coral. As usual we had dinner. There was tons and tons of bugs. Bugs in my food; bugs in my drink; bugs in my soup. IT WAS HORRIBLE! We put on tons of mosquito repellent and went to bed. I went to bed with a horrible belly ache and it was super hot because my fan wasn't working.

In the morning we went on another boat to go to the coral reef to go snorkeling. On our way we saw dolphins. Immediately everyone was like, "let's swim with them" so we all jumped in and swam with them.  Lots of us got to touch them and got really close. It was one of the coolest things I have ever done in my whole life. We were so lucky because the dolphins were so friendly and didn't swim away. Once the dolphins swam away we got back on the boat and headed to the coral reef for snorkeling. It was the most beautiful things I have ever saw! The fish were unbelievable. They were all different colors; all different shapes and all different sizes and had all different patterns. And the coral was amazing! It was orange and pink and white and blue and purple. It was beautiful!! We went to the near beach and rubbed sand all over ourselves because the sand was so pure it made our skin super soft. After some time of playing around we went back to our hotel packed and went back home. I loved the trip so much and really enjoy going on vacation with my family.
Here is the video that Ben and Natasha's family made about swimming with the dolphins.