Sorting, Sorting, Sorting

Back into the routine today as we all got up for breakfast and headed off to morning assignments.  Since testing was taking place in the primary schools, several of the girls were sent to work at the Roman Catholic Church school, today.  They taught the little ones animals’ names in English and Swahili and then had them draw the animals on paper.  While Ikeizja and Cameo tried to escape being attacked by the little ones, Sarah and Ashleigh helped to make the porridge. 

I took several of the other primary cast aways to the secondary school to help Rachel in the library.  We were all a little surprised to find the library housed all of the testing materials and that the tests were placed around the room in no particular order.  At first, we simply took a couple of piles and sorted through them.  We finished that task and then went off to tea.  We talked about how great it would be if we could go organize the entire room and sort the exams by subject and topic.  Although it would be a big job (we had NO idea how big!!) we thought that the end product would help Rachel stay more organized and save her time when searching for tests in the future.  We started by taking out pile after pile of tests and began to sort them by topic.  Then we had to sort each topic by test, mock exam, pre-exam, pre-national exam, and national exam.  Those tests then needed to be sorted further to separate the national exams by private, school and joint test versions.  What a job!  We stopped for lunch and then recruited some unsuspecting souls to help us in the afternoon.  We made a dent, but have lots to do tomorrow, as well.

We got home and Michael pulled out Haran’s guitar.  He had restrung it and we sat around and sang songs.  We were treated to a song by Edward that we really enjoyed.  After dinner the singing continued outside and we were treated to Dr. Thomas’ and my show tune medleys, as well as a special guest performance by Queens’ own gospel/show choir- it was a great night and I think (most!) of the singing was enjoyed by us and our neighbors.