Our last full day at Daraja! Our day started with the usual breakfast, swahili lessons, and work at the garbage pit. We carried all the tools to the workplace where we started by clearing the holes for the poles that dirt had fallen into. We made cement then filled the holes with piles with it … More 10/02/18

Today we woke up to hot weather right of the bat. Typically our mornings were about 13-15 degrees, but today was nearly 20 when we woke up, which was the same time as every other day! Our morning started with swahili lessons once again, then we started the task of making a new trash pit! … More 10/01/18

Sunday means church! At Daraja it’s mandatory for everyone to attend one of the church services even if they do not practice any religion. There was a Muslim service, as well as Catholic and Protestant services. One of my shadows, Maggie, was catholic so she asked me to go to her service. The service was … More 09/30/18

It’s the weekend! I think this is one of the best saturday’s I have ever had. Our morning started with sports at 6:45 am where we played an intense game of basketball. Then we had breakfast and went to our second swahili lesson. After swahili we split into groups and just went around doing whatever … More 09/29/18

Our first full day at Daraja! Our morning started with breakfast then we went straight to class! All morning we went to classs with our shadow. For me, I had physics, chemistry, math, religion and sexuality, agriculture, then math again. After lunch we had our first Swahili class with Jessie, who is a super sweet … More 09/28/18

We made it to Daraja Academy! After a long travel day of about 7 or 8 hours from Kiserian area to Nanyuki area we arrived! Daraja was the first free private all female secondary school in Kenya. Each year over 600 girls apply for Daraja, and in the end only 30 are selected to actually … More 09/27/18