New blood

A little more than a year has since Lucas, Francisco and I went to Kenya. We had an amazing experience and we shared some of those experiences with you. Now three IE students have the opportunity to visit East Africa. Miguel Cañamero, Álvaro Vidal and Jaime Rodríguez are the new IE Students in Africa. Now on Miguel will be posting about his experiences and will share pictures and videos.

Best of luck Miguel, Álvaro and Jaime!
Daniel

Musungu

What is this strange word? Probably none of you heard it before, I just heard it yesterday, and if it had not been for our friend Jotham’s help, we would still not know what this means.

This is a word well spread threw the population and is said repeatedly on the streets by young kids, as we pass by. The word means ‘white man’. For children of less fortunate areas here it is not usual to see our color of skin. It is incredible how lots of kids stay hypnotized, seeing us with their shining eyes, when we pass by. Several times little kids have walked towards us smiling and saluting us with great tenderness. When we return the smile and great them they even smile more. They also ask us: ‘How are you?’ we have answered back and realized these are the few words they know in English, as we have not obtained response. In the future we will try talk with them in Swahili, the local language, and teach them some more English. In the past two days we have already built a short list of words that we have learnt and will try by the end of these two months to get on with this language.

It is incredible to see how children here always smile and show love, sometimes having nothing to play with, but enjoying themselves with any little thing we may see as useless in our regular life.

We have been little in this country but we have already learnt a lot, and there are still lots to teach and more even to learn from this amazing country with amazing people!