Olorien Primary School

This main building houses classes 4-8.

This temporary building houses classes 1-3

This is inside some of the classrooms. In each small wooden desk, 2 students squeeze next to each other. Most of the classes contained 50 to 70 kids.


This is the staff room where we prepared lessons and marked papers. Our weekly schedule is printed on the chalkboard in the back.

Here are most of the teachers standing. The older boys in front prepared traditional Maasai music and dance for us on our last day.

Here we tried to join in and even took a stab at the jumping. Although we were called "white Maasai" by some of the locals I don't think we lived up to our name here!

This is a typical scene whenever one of us took the camera out. Students would race towards us to be in the picture. We had to endlessly convince them they didn't need to be inches from the camera lens, or give the thumbs up.

Lunchtime! Food consisted of a bulgar (oats?) mush donated by the USA.

Annalisa got her hair braided by some of the students.

Annalisa is engaged teaching Social Studies (top) and reading an English passage (bottom). Nikki is busy lecturing and helping students with math homework.

Annalisa has class 8 students act out a passage from their English text.

We did a finger painting activity with class 1.





We will never forget these children. Every single day they were so happy and whenever we caught their eyes they would give us the biggest smiles. They were so appreciative and thankful of us coming to Kenya to teach them, however, they gave us much more back. We do plan on returning in a couple years to Kenya and to this school and perhaps for a much longer visit. There are still more posts to come...