Mwangi's Musings...

It is my exams this week - I do hope i have done okay so far. Social Anthropology, Modern History and Byzantine Studies - i ll focus on Social Anthropology in the second year - thats if I am to pass the exams in the first place!

I am trying to get together the documentations needed for Shiku to come here to Belfast - the UK visa people can be very strict and I am worried that they might not let her come - it can be a big blow for Shiku however we will see how it will go.

Austine (photo: beside the yellow telephone boxes) was at the Deaf Christian youth camp last week - now he is back at Maseno. We haven't heard from Kenyatta University yet about whether he can get into the school-based degree programme there or not - it is not fair on him as he got D+ and it wasn't enough for the University or not. It wasn't his fault Kuja Secondary (one of the 3 secondary schools for the Deaf in Kenya) have failed their duty to provide quality education. We will see if Austine can get into Maseno University as a full-time student on their Special Educations degree programme.

Dr Peter Oracha is the assistant Professor there so fingers crossed he ll make efforts for Austine to get in. I got the text from Austine today saying that he will know for sure next week.

Evans is back in Luhyaland - Webuye this time - to work at St Anthony's School for the Deaf, a Catholic school there. He emailed me last week saying that he's trying to encourage deaf kids there to be positive and to focus on getting into university. It isn't easy as the teachers there are just doing their 'jobs'.

There is a deaf volunteer there at Webuye from California - hes called Frank Lester - he have done a good job on the KSL poster - I will write more about that later on.

Back to work!