What I love about Kenya

Working in a 3rd world country where corruption, abuse and tribalism is common, can wear a person down. In order to survive, one has to keep looking for the positive. Well here’s my list of my positives.

What I love about Kenya

• Mama Rono and her hour long stories
• Florence, my Kenyan sister and best friend
• The beautiful landscape. Sometimes I still can’t believe Im in Kenya
• My neighbors and the fact that they really will give me a cup of sugar or an egg when I ask.
• The market mamas and how they have taken me in as a daughter
• My students and the bond I have formed with them
• The struggles and frustrations I have faced here and how they have changed me, for the better and some for the worse
• My Paka…even when he’s a jackass eating all of my butter and destroying my milk cartons
• The time spent with my fellow Peace Corps Volunteers and the family we have made
• My garden
• The amazing places I have been able to explore
• The Kenyan women and the power and strength they have
• The price of everything, except for customs and Kenya power everything is super cheap, Passion fruit, pineapples, cloth.
• Picking out material and making my own clothes
• Wearing sandals year round
• Baking on the Jeko oven and making spaghetti from scratch
• Simplicity of life here