Today marked the first
day of construction on the Ntugi Primary School playset/jungle gym. After consulting with the Headmaster and the
logistics manager of Lewa, we agreed on a perfect location on the Ntugi property. This location was located very near the
school kitchen which led to all 400 students passing by to say hello. I was assisted by 4 old boys from the Ntugi Secondary School who proved to be invaluable and I look forward to working with them again for the remainder of the project. All of the primary children seemed most grateful when I showed them the picture of what our team hoped to achieve. --- T. Denstedt
After Mr. Denstedt took off for Ntugi Primary, we started our day at the Conservation Education Centre. 
After their game drive yesterday, Winker and Nayyir helped develop the idea of making a 'conservation' quiz for students. We all thought it was a great idea because it helps students become more familiar with the OLPC while they are learning about conservation and the objectives of Lewa and the NRT.
To be honest, we never expected that we would really be working on computers all day, but it happened. Andrew was creating a game that the students could play on the computers. He also found a manual for Python, to add to the one he was already developing, to give to Simon to learn Python. Winker found an application on the Sugarlabs website to download that produced a quiz interface fort the students. Unfortunately it was in its beta stage and was full of bugs. Jonathan was working on a memorize game involving animal sounds and their names for the students.
During lunch, we had a break and Justin and the others taught Simon and Euphantus how to play football. We learned two things: (i) Simon was a very fast runner, and (ii) it is very difficult to catch your breath at high altitudes.
After lunch we discovered that the 1.0 computers could not be updated to the 1.5 because
of some glitch that was believed to be related to hardware specifications.
However, other people on the internet were successful, so we believed we were
using a different updater. Thomas and David found a version of the updater, but
it was bit difficult to download with the extremely unstable cradlepoint router. We
will try to find an opportunity to download it when we get time and faster
internet.Nayyir taught Euphantus, who did not know much about OLPCs, how to use Scratch. Justin played around on Scratch and discovered a talent for Scratch that will prove itself very useful for teaching. Although we all get tired, we still worked really hard on our project.
We all shared one idea that we are not coming for enjoy our march break, but for doing something for the students here. We all believe that the more we do, more students will have a chance to fulfill their dream. Everyone in Kenya has a hope for the future and we trying our best to help them.
---D.Wang and A. Zhang
