Today is Madaraka Day. Kenya gained its freedom or something like that in, I think, 1963.

So I'm going to try to be more upbeat on here. I was in a good when I wrote that last entry, but I guess no one noticed 'mood: happy' at the bottom of it.

I have a big college level biology book that I let the students read sometimes. I've nicknamed it the 'Book of Knowledge' because it's basically my only decent reference. Well I was sitting with some students that were flipping through it this week and we were commenting on the pictures and stuff. One boy who was looking at it upside-down (and therefore couldn't read the captions or really see the pictures clearly) thought that the diagram of the female reproductive system was a brain. He's actually one of the top students so it made the whole thing even funnier.

Another funny thing happened in the same class. I was trying to get through the topic of Adaptations of Plants to their Habitat and said that when we finished we would move on to a more interesting and exciting topic. One of the clowns in the class, Wilson, yelled "REPRODUCTION!" and I had to correct him and said the next topic was going to be Pollution.

A Form 4 girl showed me how to use a twig to brush my teeth after lunch one day. It works pretty well, but I'm still going to use a toothbrush and toothpaste.

I gave a short impromptu English lesson to some boys on Wednesday. I had to explain lost, lose, loose, loss, and loos.

Another sticker in a matatu:
"Good boys take Jesus. Bad boiz take drugz." Love it.

EP saw this on a sticker in a PSV:
"A girl is like a common maize cob for everyone with teeth to chew." Don't exactly love that one.

I'm gonna go finish my grocery shopping now.