Year-end message from Maai Mahiu

Samuel has a few words for us at the end of the year. He's been busy this year laying a strong foundation, he says, because he plans to acheive great heights "like a skyscraper".



Remember, Samuel is one of the students who hcan be sponsored - with $10,$20 or more - here.

Happy Holidays - to our friends at Bodwell, Maai Mahiu Secondary, and around the world!

Tongue twisters vidoes

Enjoy the tongue twisters videos below from Maai- Mahiu secondary students.

Enjoy.

From Rafiki Link Club members in Kenya - our introductions

We took videos of some of the head Rafiki Link at our beautiful school, Maai Mahiu Secondary... check out what we have to say:
- First, Mary - shy on camera but not in person. She is sponsored by Bodwell to attend high school
- Sammy or Njahe... a funny guy! He says he is the deputy head boy, that means he is like the assistant prime minister of the school.
- Paul Karanja, the entertainment prefect and a member of scouts!
- Can you catch the name of this guy?
- Caroline, another Bodwell-sponsored student - and her best friend :)

Jambo! I'm Domenica

Hi everybody!

My name is Domenica, I'm 17 years old and I come from Mexico.

I am interested in photography, reading, writing, listening music -especially rock and roll; I'm a Beatles lover- and dancing. My favourite dance is Spanish, which I used to practice in Mexico since I was 10. I also like being outside practicing sports.

I am always laughing; a funny fact is that when I laugh a lot I start crying!

The way I see life could be resumed in Gandhi's quote "Live as you were to die tomorrow. Learn as you were to live forever". I try to make the most of every experience and every second spent, and obtain knowledge about them.

I look forward to hearing from you guys!

Best wishes,

Domenica ;)

Jambo!

Hi Guys!
My name is Christine Wright but people call me Kiki.

I come all the way from Ecuador in South America!

I love animals and trying new experiences.
Most of all, I enjoy spending my time meeting new people and learning about new cultures.

I am always smiling and I'm a happy person, there is no reason in this life to be sad, you know...If you ever fall down, just stand up and keep on walking.

I also love to learn new languages, if you can teach me some of yours, please do :)

Gracias ! (Thank you in spanish)

With love - Kiki!

Hi, I'm Kamilya)

Hi everybody))) My name is Kamilya, I like new experiences and moving to a new places to learn about the cultures. I was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan – a wonderful place on the Earth. I spend there most of my life. Last year I moved to Russia, where I’ve graduated from a high school. And now I’m here, in Bodwell as an international student.

I joined rafiki club this year, and I like it so far! I really want to keep it touch with students in Kenya, to make there friends, because it's a chance to learn about a different culture and life style. Also I want to share my interests and life experience with others!

I have a lot of interests, as I think the self-improvement and studying is very important in each life. Philosophy, religion, education, music, playing piano, guitar, drums, listening to music, cooking, reading, alternative history, esoteric, skiing, volleyball, basketball, skating, making new friends, photographing art, museums, old streets, Russian classic literature, vegetarianism, self-perfection, science, UFO, different worlds, undiscovered abilities of a human body and brains, … That’s a bit about me)))

jambo rafiki!!!!

hi guys! I'm Arman and I'm one of new rafiki club's members , I'm 17 , I come from Iran

I love cars , math , and..........

best wishes

Arman :D

Intro to my school

Intro to my school

Back to school

Students are back to school and some of them feels home sick and they say that they had a very nice holiday and they wished to stay longer at home, thought they are excited to be back to Rafiki link activities. They are also very excited that Rafiki link has bought a router modem for the school and now all the computers in the computer lab will be connected to internet, this is coming as soon as possible and the students can wait to see this amazing computer lab having internet. this is a privilege to Maai- Mahiu secondary and it will now be one of the few high schools in Kenya that will have internet.
The school is very much thankful and its ready to assist Rafiki link in all the ways that they can.
Rafiki link teacher here is also very excited that rafiki link will pay for his internet lessons and he is very much thankful for this.

We will keep you posted on what is happening here.

Bodwell students In Maai- Mahiu secondary

The school was very happy to receive visitors from Bodwell High school in Canada. They have done a great job of assisting in building girls toilet which was recommended by ministry of health that it was the most needed infrastructure in the school. Bodwell High school has donated these toilets which they assisted in building. Students here in Maai- Mahiu secondary also did a great job in assisting the Canadians do this difficult job which they thought that they couldn’t be able to do.
Bodwell students also had a chance to attend some of our lessons and they said that they enjoyed being in our classes learning, though they said that our system here is a little bit difficult compared to theirs. They also had time to interact with students here where they shared on different issues and getting to know each other.
Students here also joined Bodwell students for their trip to the animal orphanage and Nairobi Safari walk; they enjoyed walking together watching wild animals which they had not seen in reality, most of them said that they had only seen them in TVs and pictures. Students enjoyed having this fun moment with Longonot and Bodwell High school students where later in the day they enjoyed having their lunch together in Nairobi Safari walk and some of them could not withhold their happiness.
On behalf of the school, students have passed their sincere thanks to Bodwell for all their efforts and sacrificing time to come and spend it with them here and also for building them a new toilet.

Rafiki calendars

We have been able to receive copies of Rafiki link calendars from Canada which were designed using photos that students took during the Bodwell trip last year on April when Kenyan students and Canadian students spent sometime together here in Kenya.

Kenyan students were given disposable cameras where they went and took their favorite photos in their homes/ villages which appeared in our Rafiki 2010 calendar. Students who appeared in the calendars were very happy to see themselves appearing in those calendars, others who did not appear were requesting if they could appear in the 2011 calendars. The school administration was also very much appreciative and they commented that this is a very great way of motivating students.

Some of the students who appeared on the calendars have already graduated from high school and we are very sure that they would love to see those calendars, the few calendars that we had went to the students who are already in school and some to the administration.

School is very much thankful for all the efforts that Canada put towards the success of Rafiki Link.

Comfort the Children International (CTC) was also very much thankful for Maai- Mahiu secondary showing interest in what CTC is doing for the community of Maai- Mahiu, we had about forty students who attended ubuntu day which was cleaning up of town and this showed a very good example to people on how they are supposed to keep their environment clean.

CTC also awarded a certificate of participation in this great day's event.

Updates.

Maai- Mahiu secondary Rafiki Link club students have been able to send their profiles to Canada so that they can familiarize themselves with students in Canada where they are also hoping to get Canadian's students profiles. They have also been very excited to know how to send emails and we are glad that Bodwell students are responding to our blog posts. some students from Science club who have been carrying out projects research had also had a chance to do the research using google which was very helpful to them, they are continuing getting to learn about the technology that we have.

Mwaniki and the teacher who co-ordinates Rafiki link in school had a meeting and we are starting on History Essay writing competition this month which is going to involve the whole school for those who will be interested in participating.
We will keep you posted on what is going on.

Rafiki Link 2010

This year has started very well and our new resolution for this year is to have a lot of flow of information, last year we did a lot of basic computer skills.
We have already started being trained on how to send emails and it has been so interesting using internet, we will be having two meetings per every week to communicate with students in the west.
Below are some of the ideas that we hope to be communicating with students in the west:-
1. Academics
2. Hobbies
3. Interests
4. Challenges that students face around the world.
5. Games
6. Culture
7. Environment
8. Politics

and many others.
Right now we have our school email address that we will be sending emails along with and we will keep you posted on our school blog on what we are communicating about.
We are interested to start knowing how to send emails, we once had an exam where we had been told to send email but none of us knew the email format, so we just wrote it as a normal composition that we write without the correct email format, we are now very glad that we have known how it looks like and we are now putting it into real practice which very interesting.
Below is the first email that we sent to Bodwell High school students.

we as maai mahiu students of RAFIKI LINK send greetings and we hope you receive them with much appreciation.In the meantime,we hope we will get to know each other better,in terms of;culture,academics,politics,hobbies,how to develop and nurture talents and any other which you may ought to have.
We hope to hear from you soon.We will send photos very soon,not very soon,but very very very soon!Hope you will do the same.