Well this was the first morning this week we managed to have breakfast without any bad news about violence in Niarobi :) Today I went back to the Family Planning Clinic in Karuri Health Centre, as I was going to run the clinic with 2 student nurses but there was no clients!!! So I went next door to the under 5's clinic which was really busy! There was a talk about the pneumococcal, polio and diphtheria immunisations which was was really interesting! Verena th...

We're not having a great week so far with the news!!! Breakfast time again and Lavina informed of us of another bomb in Nairobi, at the bus stop last night that insured 8 and killed 1!! Everyone is pretty anxious and the Americans are advising against travel to Nairobi!! Anyways another interesting day, think I've turned into a midwife in like 4 days of working here!! Today I was instructed how to educate PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) basic...

Well back to reality... a week of work! At breakfast though, Lavina told us she had a message from home saying there had been a grenade launched into a Nairobi night club at 3am our time! We were planning going out in Niarobi on Sat night but that plans will all be stopped. Everyone is bit anxious since the group was all in the night club the Saturday before I arrived! Still at Karuri Health Centre/Clinic and today I was working in the Antenatal clinic... yes I...

I would have loved a long lie this morning but we had all agreed to go to the tea plantation for 11am and it was meant to be a 30minute walk!! I surprisingly felt fine when I woke (no hangover hehe!) So at 10.30am 11 of us all headed off, Lavina was the only one who had been there before so it was up to her to show us the way!!! We weren't long away from the cottage when most of us realised we were totally dehydrated after being out drinking last night, the su...

Well it was another early rise, safari was starting at 6.15am so we could see the sunrise! So meant breakfast was sharp 6!!! It was so pretty coming out of your tent looking across the open bush and seeing gazels and wildebeests in the morning! We got the option to take tea/coffee with us in special thermal safari mugs! First sighting was the sunrise :) my camera doesn't have a setting for sunrise or sunset so didn't manage to get any good pics! We then came ...