Exams are starting for the whole school today. The fourth years actually started doing exams two weeks ago to get ready for their national exams in November. It's been a long haul for them. The exams we have been giving them were written at the district level (like a county, I suppose), which means that they were relatively error free and came with answer keys (I was grateful that the students would get better exposure in agriculture). The fourth years had a total of 20 exams. The other exams were supposed to start and finish last week, but that got changed. It threw a bit of a wrench into the scheduling, but then, things never go exactly as planned here. The plan is to give lots of exams (I will be giving physics to the first years; math, agriculture to the second years; 2 math exams, 2 chem exams and 1 agric exam to the third years [yikes!!!]; on top of 2 agriculture and 2 chemistry to the fourth years, but those ones are nearly done) and grade them, return them and submit the report cards by Monday of next week. I already did one stack for fourth year chemistry. It was not very pretty (average was 20%, high score was 60%, and there was only one other student who scored above 40%). Things are going to be pretty busy (hence my reversion to this format of blogging). Just when I had hoped for a respite from all the work of writing the exams.
Also, a few more notes from the weekend. Just before I got on the matatu in Voi, I decided to run to the supermarket and grab a small block of cheddar. Well, the matatu was in no rush and it was also very hot, so by the time I got home (of course, there's no fridge) it was not the prettiest block of cheese I'd ever seen. I knew it was now or never, so I made myself 4 grilled cheese sandwiches. Yummmmm! I'll have to do that again.
I had to reevict those wasps. This time, they decided to set up their nest on my front door. Well, I decided to just by a can of insect killer and get rid of them for good (I feel like I had given them enough warnings). They are gone again. I hope they stay away this time.
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