Weeks 8-10 Hi all, Sorry for the slack blogging- the weeks just seem to fly by! So..the last few weeks… I learnt how to make traditional Kenyan food. The volunteers on my project, Mary Alice and Sarah, and I spent the day at our special needs teacher house from our school. Our two teachers taught us to make popular Kenyan meals- chapati, ugali and sukuma, even grading us on our ability to make these local foods! The bus ride home depicted a typica...

Hi guys, The last fortnight had a slow start as I was still recovering from a head cold. Bugs here seem to take ages to shake-? from the limited variety in the diet, or just from sharing a house with 20 other people. The other volunteer I´m working on my project with, Mary Alice, had a meeting with the staff at the school about their performance. As most volunteers are only here a short time, the problems with our current paid staff had gone unaddressed for a...

Another hectic few weeks. I can't remember what date I updated last, so apologies for any repetition. The most stressful recent event that had everyone contacting me was the terrorist attack in a shopping centre, which only ended a few days ago. Luckily, I was on safari when it started, and was hours from Nairobi. When I came back to the city, it was recommended we stay away from our local shopping centre for a while, as it was the exact same as the one that wa...

Apologies for the lazy blogging. My phone has died, and along with it, my ability to easily access the internet. i have bought a cheap Kenyan ph, but it is very temperamental and anyone who calls me must scream the entire conversation. The last two weeks have been hectic. I visited the local hospital in Kinangop when I was in rural Kenya, which was a really interesting experience. Only 2 staff members are medically trained, excluding the chemist, who dispenses m...

So after 42 hours of travelling I reached my placement. I am staying at Rehoboth orphanage in Kingangop in rural Kenya. The orphanage has 15 children ranging from 4 to 16 years old. As we are rural, the host family's 4 children also live in the orphanage, which is attached to the family home. The weather is freezing- down to 0 degrees this weekend- definitely did not pack for this weather! The power transmitter broke before I arrived, so the electricity was onl...