well. it's starting to hit me that it is all coming to an end. I took the train out last night from Nairobi and am now back in Mombasa in some warm weather. Its weird being back here after growing so used to nairobi again. It has been great to be home with my mom in nairobi and am so thankful at how wonderful she has been while i ahve been under the weather. yesterday she came home from work early to cook me a send off dinner and take me to the railway station wi...

well. today ends another chapter of my 5 month east african adventure. I'm almost all packed up and ready to head back to nairobi tonight. almost being the key word. I'm leaving Mombasa with some bittersweet feelings. Yesterday didn't exactly go the way I had hoped... I spent the day saying goodbye to the boys at Hope Maintainers. We made crafts all morning and danced and sang reggae. Needless to say we had sooo much fun. I took them all out to lunch as a thank...

ok. I have 3 more days in Mombasa. My bus is scheduled to leave on this friday night. woah. so much to do...so little time! Mama amina is throwing me a going away party on thursday which should be alot of fun...I'm pretty pumped. so last night i played Muslim. in celebration of prophet Mohammed's b-day our mosque (literally right in front of our house) pulled out the big speakers and threw a party. My beb (grandma) insisted I join her for the celebration, so I v...

ok...I definitly have a case of the mondays....my energy level is just totally low today...that could be in part because of the excessive amount of champagne I drank yesterday poolside or the fact that I got up at the buttcrack of dawn for work this morning... So yesterday= awesome. Mollie has a (host) family member who runs the Sarova Whitesands Beach Resort in Mombasa (look it up, it will change your life) who invited us for a day of relaxation. We were more ...

the workshop is over. thank you god. thanks to the help of Mollie, it went off without much trouble and was extremely successful. If I did nothing else for them the entire time...the workshop made it all worthwhile. They now have a new mission statement and timeline of goals and objectives for the next year, 3 years, 5 years, 15 years!!! They all were really happy with the outcome, so hopefully they can follow through on their goals and make even more of a differ...