As Kawangware and Mathare Cohorts 1 finalized preparations for the upcoming BPC, Cohorts 2 took on their greatest challenge yet—understanding and maintaining business records! In order to ease the girls’ fears, the YE alumni—who assist in various capacities every class—opened the lesson with an icebreaker. The girls divided into two teams and were challenged to spell out random words by picking up the letter squares laid on the ground in front of them. They finally began to relax as they raced as a team to spell “woman” and “leggings” but were a bit alarmed when the tiebreaker word they were asked to spell was “entrepreneurship.” They all got it right eventually. Next, the girls moved inside for the “Accounts Come Alive” simulation. For Accounts Come Alive, the girls read through the entrepreneurial endeavors of Neema—a fictional teenage girl who opens her own hotel. Over the course of the first few months, Neema does a good job keeping track of her assets, liabilities, equity, sal