Sunsets,mamas and weekly highlights

Weekly Highlights

There have been days when I get so swamped with school, frustrated with the immature boys, and more focused on the teachers drama that I forget to appreciate the beauty of Kenya. But then I have a day where Kenaya reminds me. As I sit in my hotel room, watching the sunset over Lake Victoria, a must see for anyone who visits Kenya, and listening to the monkeys make wild love making calls, I am reminded that whatever negative happens in my day, there is always a positive that follows.



I got to meet a youth organization that uses participatory theater and puppet shows to teach their community about HIV/Aids, reproductive health, condom use, child abuse, student- teacher relations and other community issues.



Im working on an essay about living with epilepsy and joining the peace corps. If I feel its good enough to submit, Ill send it to the magazine.



I found a friend who will play the part of my boyfriend while he is visiting my site. Goodbye marriage proposals…hopefully.


Bought a new shirt, jewelry, new material for yet another skirt and birthday goodies for my sisters. The highlight was I bargained my ass off for them and got a good price.



Learned a lot of Kiswahili…problem is I don’t remember any of it. However, I feel confident as time goes on, I’ll become fluent by the time I leave.



Whenever volunteers come together, we swap movies, books and any other entertainment. I have 4 new books to read and a ton of new movies that will last me till the next time we all come together.

Alone in the Nakumatt

Well as lock downs go, this one aint half bad. Since the referendum is a holiday, a group of people were allowed to head to Nakumatt for some shopping( we are not allowed out of our hotel tomorrow and Thursday). Well, you can imagine the chaos that ensued. What did u expect, take 17 people who have been out in the bush for three months, put them in a city with k-mart size supermarkets and people are going to get a little nuts. Well, heres my shopping list.
4 types chocolate bars

2 bags of candy

2 bags of chips( kenyas make of cheetos and Doritos)

3 liters of white wine…BOX wine( when you are living off of $200/month you have to lower ur standards)

300ml of kingfisher fruit wine…hey hey hey before you judge it has 8% alcohol so take that u girly beer drinkers

3 liters of water

3 sodas

300ml of woodpecker cider

Cream Cheese, Gouda, Chedder( which ended up having a hard boiled egg aftertaste) and classy European cheese spread that has a laughing cow on it. Yeah, we sort of went nuts on the cheese

And with the cheese comes crackers

A packet of chocolate chip cookies

Milk to go along with our European version of cinnamon toast crunch

And mom if ur flipping out about your daughters health, this next bit is for you.
A bag of lettuce

Spanish olives

Bell pepper

Cauliflower

A succulent grapefruit that didn’t last through the night.

Broccoli ( to make sure we were eating some what healthy)

And ranch dressing

…oh yeah and a small bottle of herbal essence shampoo.( I spent 15 min smelling all of them trying to decide which one I wanted.)