May Photos
Titchie sports here at RVA during third term include street hockey, rugby
(for the boys), kickball, gymnastics, and basketball. I have included a
few pictures:
Click on the photos for a full-sized picture.
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Street hockey – Our dorm girls, Joy, Josephine, and Love (foreground, left to right) going for the ball. |
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Street hockey – Our dorm girls, Rachel and SoHee (left to right) in a face-off (like jump ball). |
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Kickball – Elizabeth at bat. |
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Basketball – Our dorm girl, Julia taking a shot. |
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Gymnastics – Abby about to do a cartwheel. |
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On her birthday, several of our dorm girls, and our neighbor, surprised Meredith with a cake: Left to right – Rachel, Amanda (neighbor), Dora, Julia, Janelle (neighbor’s daughter). |
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Karissa enjoys helping Elisheba, our house worker, do her work |
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Rugby is huge at RVA. So when a big game comes, we all dress in red and black and head for the field. Rugby game on a Wednesday night, no problem, we packed up our dorm dinner and went to the rugby game and had a picnic with the dorm. Here we are eating Chapattis (like a thick fried tortilla), and Kenyan stew (very good). Did I mention rugby is big? |
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Elizabeth and her best friend JoUn. |
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Our dorm girl, Bea, in a jump rope contest. |
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Abby about to shoot a blowgun at balloons. |
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Karissa getting her face painted. |
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May 27, was outreach day, the day that RVA goes out into the community to do
some type of service. Our dorm planted trees in a shamba (garden).
In Africa, the whole village has a common shamba. Here there is maize and
beans growing. The type of tree we planted will nitrogenate the soil
without blocking much sun, and will become firewood in 10-15 years, taking
demand off the illegal charcoal industry which is ruining the forest here.
We planted 1000 trees.
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Propst dorm minus some who were sick. Back row: David, Josephine, Hyeri, Bea. Front row: Elizabeth, Dora, Melanie, Julia, Rachel, SoHee, Love. |
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Elizabeth with a jembe (hoe). |
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These two African boys were so curious that they followed Elizabeth and I around in the shamba. I asked if they would like to help, and before you know it, they were hard at work helping to plant. Within a short time several other African kids began helping. It isn’t often that they see so many “wazungu”. Behind the boys is Mt Longonot, and Kijabe hill is to the right. |
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At the end of a long day, Julia reads to Abby, Karissa, and Janelle (neighbor’s daughter). |
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