Don Bosco Boys Kwaheri Funky Day

The other day we were invited by the new head honcho of Don Bosco Boys Town Technical School Fr. Paul Felix, formerly of Bosco Boys, to be guest judges at the DBBT cultural presentation day. It turned out to be a really fun day, watching these talented students put on some traditional dances, song, comedy skits, and raps.

We have heard long about how the food at DBBT is the best among all 5 Salesian centers in Nairobi. They weren't lying. Fr. Paul truly treated us so wonderfully there and it was nice being able to hang out with a "older" crowd than the boys at Bosco Boys. There were even some students at Boys Town who are older than us.

The team names ranged from Scorpions, Dragons, Omnitholoics (We STILL have no idea what that means), Black Rose, and there were a few more (can't remember). But it was a great day.


Fr. Paul Felix introducing us to the crowd. He's a really funny man, there's an older post about him and how he hates the pussy cats at Bosco Boys. How he would always yell "pussy out!" when the cats would come into the dining hall to take food. It was fun to hear him laugh at his own jokes again and that you can barely even understand the guy anyways.

One of the groups performing their traditional dance.

This was the judges panel; Far right: Judge #1 Millicent (a teacher at DBBT), Judge #2 Brother Patrick (formerly of Bosco Boys who is talking), Judge #3 Katie (who doesn't seem too impressed by the last act & wasn't really judge number 3 because she stole my (Pat) Judge #4 binder but she sat in the Judge #3 spot, doesn't really matter but she stole it), and the REAL Judge #4 Pat.

After the performances we were asked to give a response of what we thought. At first we were being nice but then another priest, Fr. Waldamor (who is Polish and just a really great guy), told us to be harsh and give them real criticism so they learn. We then started doing that and I don't think everybody liked us as much as when we first got there, but eh.

There was a DBBT band that played in between segments of the day. The two girls of the band played bass and guitar and did a really great job.

Our little buddy Eric, from Bosco Boys, just showed up at DBBT. We told him we were going there for the day and since they had free time that day he walked all by himself just to hang out with us. So we let him be a judge with us.

I was able to announce the winner, Omnitholoics... go figure.