Well today is Kristin and I's last day in Ngong, we leave this afternoon for Nairobi and then catch a flight to Dublin, Ireland tomorrow morning. Yesterday was one of the hardest days here....we had to say good bye to the kids at the orphanage....I was doing well until they started crying....then I pretty much lost it....after that we met up with our friends from orientation for some drinks and again had to say good bye....yeah the day pretty much sucked....Sorr...

I can't believe I only have one week left in Kenya! I remember when I first got here a month seemed like such a long time and now I can't believe it's almost over. This past week has been pretty good. Thursday we went into Karen to "Rusty Nail" for drinks and to say good bye to Gemma. She is a girl from England that we met on orientation and also spent a long weekend with her on Safari. It's crazy to see people leaving already. Kristin and I are t...

This past weekend has been great! Kristin and I took an over night bus from Nairobi to Mombasa on Thursday night. We arrived in Mombasa at 5am Friday morning. The second we got out of the bus we were attacked by taxi drivers wanting to give us a lift. It was the last thing I wanted to deal with seeing as how I had just woke up from a 6 hour sleep. Kristin and I started bargining with the guys to see who would get us to our destination for the least amount of...

Yesterday our host mom Grace took Kristin and I into Nairobi to purchase our bus tickets to Mombasa this weekend. I can honestly say it was nice to finally get back to Ngong after being in Nairobi...sooo many people....Tuesday is our host "brothers" birthday and it is turning 19 so Kristin and I decided to buy him a DVD since he loves watching movie. We got Ocean's Eleven....we also bought him a birthday cake! Grace informed us that no one here reall...

Last night I got to experience another first....Bucket shower in the dark......It's funny b/c I thought taking a bucket shower sucked....but that's when I had light to see what I was doing....haha I had my head lamp with me which produced a little bit of light but it got interesting once I got to the part where I needed to wash my hair.....go figure as soon as I got out the electricity came back on haha. It was a good expereince thought b/c it made me realize ho...