Distraction

On Monday I went to Kiambu to visit a school run by a CBO, Fofcom. Which was only about thirty minutes away from Nairobi. When I finally went to the school the children reacted in the craziest way. Some of the kids were standing with shaky knees, pointy and yelling. It was like people running from Godzilla, except I think they were excited. Some of the kids were jumping around and laughing. Seriously, I just got out of the car and started walking towards the teachers to meet them, you think with that reaction I was Justin Bieber or something. In the meeting as usual I just sat around half listening to the people in the meeting. My mind was wandering much more than usual during the meeting. I think it was because that morning I talked to my sister and she was telling me about my Grandpas funeral on Saturday and I was upset about missing it. During the meeting kids would slowly walk past the room pointing and staring at least they were a pleasant distraction. The school was at a primary school and I when I was out of the meeting and saying hi to all the kids and shaking there hands the older kids asked me what my name was which was nice. None of the kids in the other schools spoke to me in English so it was nice to actually feel like I communicated with them. I thought I was leaving so I said goodbye to everyone but I didnt actually leave for a while. I was standing by the car taking pictures and the kids noticed and they started jumping up and down, calling my name which they pronounced as Shalin and posing. It was so cute but I started feeling bad when I noticed some of the kids were poking their heads out of their classrooms in the middle of class. The longer I was there the more I wanted to hide, none of the kids could pay any attention while I was there. I felt guilty really I am singlehandedly being responsible for ruining their education, at least for that day at least. All in all this school definitely had the most exaggerated and excited reaction out of all the places that I went.