In the morning we just hung out at the volunteer house while we waited for our new volunteer place to pick us up at about 12:30. We met Alice and the driver Steve. They drove 2.5 hours to pick us up and then it was another 1.5 hours to get back (only costing us $20). We arrived at the volunteer house and immediately got a really positive vibe about the place. Alice, the organiser, cooked us up some lunch before taking us to the school in the bus. The kids were so cute and so clever – they recited The Lord's Prayer without any hesitation! There are 38 kids at the school.

We then met the other volunteers – Sophie (from Denmark), Ciara (from Italy), Susan (from Ireland), Carmen (from Switzerland) Batuhan (from Turkey) and Jamal (from Oman) as well as the local teachers. They are all so lovely and keep telling us that Mama Alice cooks the most amazing food – we’re excited!

We then came back to the house, washed our massive amount of dirty clothes by hand, ate a whole mango (including the skin – apparently Kenyan mangoes are meant to be eaten like that), some maize and then chilled out chatting to everyone before being served a meal of spaghetti, cabbag and potatoes (quite delicious!) and then playing cards.