Chezie

Well I have only two days of my beginners course left, I then start my intermediate course on Monday, so I really don't have any rest.

On Friday we will be going on an excursion to the market for class, I don't no if my Swahili will be able to hold up.
Class is becoming quite hard, for the past few days we have been learning different noun classes for example the M/Wa class is for living things ie people (with a few exceptions), there is about 5 different noun classes. What this means if that for every noun classes there is an different construction for example in the M/Wa class of nouns the word for "This" is Huyu or the possesive prefix to say "that is mine" is wangu. This might not seem too hard but in the N/N class nouns "This" is "Hii" which means "These" in the M/WI class of nouns.
In other words when someone speaks you need to no what class noun they are talking about so that you then no who and what they are talking about. This is quite easy compared to adjectives prefixes for the different noun class's which also change and in some cases depend on the what the starting letter of the noun is which will tell you what the correct prefix is.
Haha it requires alot of practice to get used to, at the moment I'm just guessing what they are talking about.

Well in other news I went to a school on Tuesday to speak to the principal to see if they needed any help and if he knew anyone who needed extra tutoring. The school was not the worst in the area but it was still very run down, the class rooms were packed but there was still a huge amount of kids still outside, the reason being they couldnt pay apparently it cost around 400,000 shillings a year for high school students, which in comparsion to the average yearly wage of 1.6 million shillings ( adjusted for PPP, my previous figures were understated) is often not a option for many familes.
So far my tutoring has had quite a large number of people interested, my first class will be this Saturday and I will go from there, I have about five people for Saturday and I am going to see how it works before I try to help and more people.

Joe