Thursday, February 22, 2007

Trying to leave!

On my home from school i called Michelle ( the GVN rep here working with VICDA) and told her i wasn't happy, the school didn't need me and a little about all the corruption that was going on and i asked to be moved. She said she would call the vicda lady Irene (also Kukuyu) and try and sort it out and get back to me that evening. i didn't hear back but that night mama Nasshipaes phone kept ringing and all the village elders and lots of other peple start coming by the house to see what is going on, as they hear there is someone complaing about the village and someone said they was fighting. I can honestly say it was the most uncomforable night of my life, they all knew it was me and they were asking me what i knew and what was happening and mama was translating for me, knowing full well it was me who had called!!1AAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhh at this point i was so over it i just wanted to leave and be done with it. Then my phone rings and it is Irene calling ( it turns out her and mama Nasshipae are freinds) and i cannot move as the money had already been given to the family, unless i pay another 15 000 shillings! to live else where. As you can tell the whole thing is corrupt as are many things here and it was a nightmare, i went to bed that night and thought about just leaving the whole thing i was so angrey and upset. However this is Africa and a lot can change in 24 hours. The next morning i woke up a woman on a mission i decided enough was enough and i went to school and we all had a two hour meeting, it turns out they really do need me, they were just thrown off wheni arrived, as soon as we started talking about the corruption and how much we all hate VICDA openly it was like the biggest weight off my shoulders and by the end we were all laughing and i had a full timetable of teaching and they are just the nicest gruop of people. So theni go home and i decide the same needs to be done, so we talk, but not as freely (obviously as they are recieving all the money and in on the whole thing) but still it is amazing jsut sitting down and communcating has changed everything. The whole village is happy now and it is just the most beautiful place.
So i know a lot of you probably didn't want or need to know any of that but there you go, i know mum wanted to know what had been going on.

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