First school !

 

My first two daughters went to a small school on a farm in Lanet, near Nakuru,  This is the whole school, with three of the teachers (white !) and two ayah's (African !)  I love the mix of children .... mostly European .... various English, Dutch, German, American, and white Kenyans .... and some Asian, but no African children.  I suspect the fees were too much even for professional African families.  The white children came from ex-pat teachers families; one was the local doctors son; others were from still white owned farms at Njoro.   I love the little boy in the front row, chin in hands ... and his feet .... one just in a sock, the other bare !  I see 'pudding-basin' hair-cuts were the fashion for children, probably in the absence of any hairdresser or skilled mother !   My oldest daughter is in the third row back, the tall child sitting bolt upright, behind a boy in a white shirt.   I think #2 daughter must have been ill that day and not at school.

School nativity play - the 'choir of angels' !  My younger daughter is between an African girl and an Asian girl in the top photo, with her sister giggling in the front row; and in the second photo she is standing next to her 'tall' older sister in the back row.