I completed "Observation of Paramecium." Paramecium is in textbooks in Kenya, but I can't find it at CEMASTEA, so I'll buy one in Japan in January.And I decorated the Innovation Room for the CEMATEA tour in December. I feel we're getting e…

A lot of students will be coming to CEMASTEA for a school trip in December. I'm really looking forward to it. My colleagues, who were told by the CEO to prepare for the exhibition, suddenly started preparing. The innovation room, where I w…

Today I extracted DNA from banana, which is very common food in Kenya. I'm glad that Kenyans enjoyed it so much.

We held a farewell party for a Volunteer Coordinator at an Italian restaurant "La Salumeria". The pasta was so delicious that it was hard to believe it was in Kenya. Yesterday was his birthday, so we sang a song and ate cake. In Kenya, the…

Yesterday, a Kenyan security guard told me that I could speak English. I feel like Kenyan people listen to me better if I start with Swahili and use the progressive tense and the present perfect tense a lot. Tomorrow is the farewell party …

Finally, I have fish in CEMASTEA Aquarium. I received two native fish from a volunteer coordinator who loves fish. One of the two is an African cichlid, a fish which the mother raises her babies in her mouth. Tomorrow, I plan to go and buy…

I visited Olorua Primary School with JICA staff. It is a large school with more than 3,000 students. Students can choose their school. Since the school provides free school lunches, there are many children from slums. The sixth graders wer…

I have completed the procedures to return to Japan in January to have a medical checkup. In fact, this return is very important. During this time, I will visit the National Museum of Science in Tokyo and imitate it in Kenya. I also plan to…

I decided to add an East African land turtle to my CEMASTEA aquarium. It's called Pancake tortoise. Tortoise is land turtle. I chose this tortoise because it was for sale on The Hub Karen. I want to keep the tortoise without feeding it as …

Today, I created "LET'S BREATHE INTO THE TUBE！" When we breathe into the test tubes, they make the sounds of Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La (↓). The number of my exhibits has increased (↓).

I went to the Giraffe Center(↓) with three Japanese volunteers. There were a lot of tourists. It looked like Kinkakuji Temple in Japan.

I went to the USIU (United States International University-Africa) where the STEM fair was held. There are some Japanese students at USIU. STEM means Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. I felt that Kenyans were particularly i…

Today's chai (↓). We often eat boiled arrowroot with milk tea (↓). It's like a sweet potato that isn't sweet. Today all the workers were on holiday style. And there were few people at lunch. That's because today is Friday. Many workers hav…

Today I made one experiment explanation(↓). It is an experiment on Underwater soap bubble. Tomorrow I'm going to USIU (United States International University-Africa) to prepare for the STEM Fair. First, I want to take a good look at the un…

Today I made one experiment explanation(↓). It is an experiment on DNA. Many of Cemastea's staff are non-regular employees. One of my Maasai colleagues' contracts expires in January. He said he wanted to learn about education here by then …

Today I made one experiment explanation(↓). It is an experiment on yeast. Yeast is a fungus that appears in textbooks and is the most familiar to us. Students will be surprised to know that yeast can make bread and alcohol. In Kenya, we on…

Suddenly, I was told to attend a staff meeting. In Kenya, we pray before and after meetings. What should non-Christians do? All the staff here are fat. The cleaners and security guards who are not here are all thin. It is said that their w…

CEMASTEA Aquarium will exhibit Mombasa beach sand and shells. So I decided to take the SGR, which I had always wanted to ride, and go to Mombasa, which I had always wanted to visit. SGR (Standard Gauge Railway) is a Shinkansen made in Chin…

I went to Jinya Shokudo for the first time. I wanted to eat fish, so I ordered the fried Aji set meal for KES 1,250. It tasted like a guesthouse dinner. In Kenya, not many people drink alcohol. Why do you think that is? Because it's expens…

I finally found the warm water pool in Kenya that was my dream. It was in the Karen area, Stedmak Gardens (↓). It was expensive at KES1000, but it was not crowded. I swam like I was in a dream. I will come here every week to swim for my he…

I thought about the good things about Kenya. ・They come to work at 8:00. They work hard until the tea break at 10:30-11:00. They work hard again until the lunch break at 13:00-14:00. And they work hard again until 17:00. Japanese people s…

Today, October 10th, is a national holiday. It's a day when everyone tries to be considerate to the environment by not working. The students will soon finish classes and go on long vacation. From Kenyan textbook ↑

CEMASTEA AQUARIUM will open soon. One of the JICA volunteer coordinators knows a lot about fish and gives me fish. Then the aquarium will open. Please come and see it！

I got a biology textbook (↓) at the CEMASTEA library. It's similar to Japanese textbooks, but there are few experiments in the textbook. I want to show Kenyan students a lot of experiments. I'm currently making an ecosystem aquarium (↓). I…

Suddenly, my colleague came in and said, "M, M, Minister of E, E ,Education is coming!!!" And soon he started cleaning the innovation room. I thought this was an opportunity to make my appeal, so I placed my exhibits there. Thirty minutes …

I went to Regina Caeli Catholic Church with Tanzanian housekeeper, Joice. I was surprised at how big it was, about the same size as the Ignatius Church in Yotsuya. Moreover, there are many similar churches in the neighborhood. This is a co…

Tomorrow is Sunday. I will go to church for the first time in Kenya. Probably with my landlord's housekeeper. Actually, I went to church when I was a child, so I wanted to go to church again in Kenya, where there are many Christians. Also,…

Mr. Kikuchi-kun came to see CEMASTEA. He is dispatched to Oloolua Primary and Secondary School. After he came back, I had lunch alone. I thought Kenya was a country where people had lunch parties outside the cafeteria, but when I looked in…

I would like to hand out this exhibit⑨ ↓ to visitors as souvenirs. Souvenirs are nice, aren't they? Today I printed out the exhibits and put them on display ↓. Next week I plan to put mud fish and aquatic plants in the aquarium on the righ…