Nairobi, here I am! It was a very long trip, i left my house at noon in Caracas last Thursday and arrive today in the morning about 8 am to Nairobi! I loose a flight, see someone fall like a tree in the airplane (i thought he was dead) but I am finely here, the first impression of the city was very nice, there are no motorcycles in the streets, no garbage in the floor and the rules are respected. I like this place -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finalmente llegue a Nairobi! El v [View Full Entry]

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8.08.09 At 4 am the Heather and Kathryn were up and getting ready to leave. I had bought a roundtrip ticket when coming to Kenya because it was cheaper than a one-way ticket and gave me a back-up plan if I wanted to come home. I never really thought seriously about returning but it was weird knowing I could be getting ready like them and returning to the U.S. I was so sick of flying I knew I couldn’t return even if I had wanted to so I walked them downstairs where Willis picked them up for the airport. He decided [View Full Entry]

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We all arose early for a sunrise game drive. Mark decided to embarrass the late waking campers by video taping them and cracking jokes which I can't really recall. After the embarrassment was over we all headed out to the jeeps for our final game drive. We saw a black rhino but from quiet a distance but we were lucky to get a glimpse at something that was so rare. We drove around for a few hours and saw some vulutures, an eagle, and a pride of lions sitting on a high ledge like the true kings of Africa. After we [View Full Entry]

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Today first thing in the morning we had breakfast, made our lunches, got our work supplies ready, then set off in the matatoo (bus). One thing I noticed though is that the people of the village were smiling at us and telling us "good job" and other signs of gratitude. We arrived at the school half an hour later and saw that the workers we hired had already started working on the school so we busily set our bags aside and cast into the work with them. I first went ahead and started mixing cement with the other Kenyans and we [View Full Entry]

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Without a surprise we woke up early yet again and set off to the school to finish the work that we started. I first went ahead and helped out with the cementing in one of the classrooms and then after the job was almost done and my help wasnt needed I decided to go ahead and help paint the second classroom. After a few hours of painting the room we were pretty much done and we decided that our was done here. We packed up our supplies and loaded our stuff onto the bus and gave the remainder of the charity [View Full Entry]

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I have officially become kenyan this weekend! On saturday morn'n a woke up with what I thought was just some aches from the cold and damp weather and by 12 o'clock noon I was so sick I decided to get tested for malaria! The results are in and I do in fact have malaria! Some of you know that I didnt take anti-malarial medication with me this time, the main reason being that the area I am in is considered low risk cause its near nairobi etc. Anyways, I have proven the travel doctor wrong on that!!! So the lesson learned [View Full Entry]

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The first leg of our tour has come to an end, and we've lost 12 of the people from it, we pick up another 14 tomorrow as we make our way to Tanzania, as long as there aren't too many Aussies included all should be fine, the Americans seem quite shy in comparison to the bread thieves! Since our last entry we visited the Genocide museum in Kigali, it's pretty powerful stuff and in the end we were both pretty glad to leave. The history behind it is incredible. We then left Rwanda and headed to Uganda, spending a couple of [View Full Entry]

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I guess I will post some photos for those of you that don't have Facebook or you can see them all on my MobileMe account http://gallery.me.com/dltang [View Full Entry]

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Going to try and post some videos of our trip, this should consist of some short clips to give you an idea of our work. [View Full Entry]

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Now that I figured out how to post the video's correctly, I will try to post some more. [View Full Entry]

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