J Brainshine School on Wednesdays J
Ever since my Nairobi Service intercultural trip to Brainshine School; I made a decision of going to Brainshine School every Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:20. Last time Ms. Irene and the group of us decided to organize a mini international day for the Brainshine children just like the one we do every year here at ISK. The Brainshine Children came dressed in their ethnic outfits for example Luo, Kikuyu, Luya, Maasai, and Kakamenga and we the ISK students came dressed in our nationality outfits, such as Niger, South Korea, Canada, USA, Somalia and India. Everyone, including the Brainshine children came with their cultural group’s traditional food. Everyone described the food they bought and shortly after that we all had a taste. You could see how excited the children were to share their delicious food with us. In the end, they sang and danced traditional songs for us, we joined in too. I told the kids a popular folktale originated from my country, Niger, it is called “How the crocodile got his skin”, they really enjoyed the story, this lead them to ask questions about my country, Niger.
Two weeks ago, when we went to Brainshine we organized an activity called “cleanliness is godliness”, we demonstrated to the kids how to shine shoes, first we told them it is important to buy liquid and wax shoe polish in the color of their shoes, in this case all of their school shoes were black, we especially warned them that this cannot work on sport, sneakers and plastic-like shoes, then we continued demonstrating, by brushing the shoe with a larger brush in a side-to-side fast action. After that, we broke into two groups, my group was with the Pre-K (Pre-Unit) kids each one had a chance to do the activity, they were so great. Afterwards we went outside and played games as a group. It was really fun. I was really happy to know these kids; we’ve grown so fond of one another, as they remember Paul, CC, and I, from the intercultural trip.
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