Christmas

Its some days to christmas-the most celebrated occassion in Ntugi community and generaly the whole of Kenya.
People around this area are gearing up with th preparition of the same, remember for the previous three years we have not harvested enough yields(Farming is our backborne), so this year being the best in three years, everybody is so happy and there is no reason not to celebrate and celebrate joyfully.
Before the occassion day we usually do some prior preparations which includes:

• Inviting you family members
• Purchasing either a goat or some chicken
  
• Buying of new clothes(without these most people can't believe its christmas they are celebrating)

After this we wait for Christmas Eve evening when we go to the church inorder to ensure that 00000Hrs (when Christ is born) comes when you are awake and you are in group.
25th December no working just parting.

OLPC Laptops, Portability and Holiday

My name is Godfrey and I am the computer superviser at Ntugi Secondary school. I am a former student from Kibirichia Boy's Secondary school. The community being a computer illiterate area, I had to try and help our students get some more knowledge of the computer and internet. I use the OLPCs and cradlepoint, but the only challenge comes to energy especially a time like now when the sunshine duration is short because we use solar.

Being over the holiday it can't be possible to blog at school, so one has to carry an OLPC laptop and a cradlepoint home to ease the internet access. Its good to have these computers since they are portable and can stay with charge for some times. Its also good since with the presence of cradlepoint one can access internet.

Right now since the school are closed I took one computer, one cradlepoint, a stick and our data SIM card home so that I would still be accessing internet. As the photo below indicates.

Back at school it has been good since more and more students are getting used to computer usage. Actually a good number of form three students are currently up on facebook and are exploring internet more and more.

The only challenge is the number of students per one computer is so big (one laptop per sevens students).

December holiday

Its December holiday and all the students are and teachers have broken for the festive holiday. This is the holiday which has has the festival (christmas) which is greatly celebrated in our community since everybody around the area is christian.

Currently the students are assisting their parents and guardian with their routine chores especially weeding. Since farming is our backbourne of our survival everybody now is so happy due to the adquate rainfall which means that the food shortage period is over.

After helping their parents,some of the students work on wages basis inorder to solve some of their monor problems which they don't have to involve their parents in.

Thisis the same period of time when the national marking of form four exam is going on and the school is anxiously waiting for the results of the school's second form four class.