Question of the Day #2

E: What is your new school like?

K: For the first day I was not comfortable in class - the students would stare at me...I was the only black person in the school. Mainly Koreans, Brazilians, Arabs, Japanese and also Russia...but these days we are becoming friends. They asked me questions about Kenya and I also asked them about their places. When they hear I am from Kenya, they want to know about running...they want to know about Obama ("Your home, is it far from Obama's place?" "How do you feel that Obama is from your place?"). They also asked me questions like, "Why do Kenyans run so fast?" I tell them apart from what I don't know, the part I know is that it is a high altitude and also in the high altitude you have to do your things, like go to school, and other normal things, but training is part of it.

E: What about your teachers?

K: The teachers are good. They are all American. They are funny - like that teacher called Anne, she danced in the class. There is one who we were supposed to go, called Walter, we were supposed to learn with this sunday but since we are travelling to Arizona, I told him it was impossible. Then he said, "Oh, you are running from here to Arizona." Then I tried to explain how Arizona is far...that you need a plane. Then he said, "You can run."