Saturday mornings at St. Catherine's are usually filled with activity as the students attend class from 6am to 2pm then are dismissed for the day to attend to their personal needs such as laundry, and housekeeping. This morning the students were treated to chai tea and store bought bread before heading out for a hike to a neighboring school hosting a scholastic assembly. We filled our time by giving the school a new coat of paint.
Unfortunately, we ended up finishing our project early and asked our security guard if we could spend some time hiking the foothills around the school. Alex wasn't very excited to have us wandering off into a situation he could not control so he agreed to allow us to walk the 3+ miles from the school to the Nakuru-Naivasha road with the following conditions: 1) everyone had to walk together or sit in the van 2) The van would follow close enough behind us that the driver could see us at all times 3) Under no circumstances were we to walk on the main road or get anywhere close to it. And this was the view we got on our walk, thank you Alex!
After peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at the compound we headed out for a boat ride on Lake Naivasha to see the most famous residents: hippopotamus! Unfortunately, by the time were were boarding the boats I was having major anxiety due to the storm clouds forming over the lake...why does this seem like a good idea? The storm rolled in completely drenched us but the hippos didn't seem to matter the rain and we were able to get a very close look at them. Later I found out that the average depth of the lake was just 5 meters, I guess Alex was keeping us safe after all. We ended the afternoon by wandering the shoreline to get a close up view of water buffalo and giraffes that also live at the lake.
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