Mr Solomon, the first Headmaster, built the center and lived there with his family and some of the sixth form. The accommodation is thatched clay brick chalet-type huts. Pupils do activities there such as initiative test, rock climbing, canoeing in the dam, climbing the nearby Mwendafye Hills and orienteering. The disadvantages at Ndubaluba are the heavy buckets that have to be hauled up when you shower, the long-drop toilets and the colonial boilers for hot water which are drums filled with water heated by a wood fire under it. There is no electricity.
Lights are solar powered.
During the holidays not so long ago when my mum was shouting at me for leaving the toast in the toaster and burning it, I suddenly felt this urge to deny it, saying that it was not my fault, so I did. As my mum raved at me I kept answering back, eventually she became so angry that she threw the toast at me and told me to stop answering back, but as she threw it, I ducked so it missed me. I was so angry and upset that I stomped away to my room in the huff. While everyone else was unconcernedly watching TV, I packed by bags and ran away to my Aunty's house. After a while I had a funny feeling that everybody would be looking for me, but I stayed where I was.