In the last two-three weeks in kenya, i participated in a youth day in Mombasa, i was facilitating the football side of things which ended up on a twenty on twenty football match when there was only sixty people there! i also built a school from wooden poles and mud! it was really good fun, when they said the village was abit out of community it was 1 hour from malindi by bus and 1 hour by walking through the jungle!! it was very good fun and very messy! Had my end of programme interview where i got 5 goods and 4 excellents out of nine possible solutions. We went for a whole group dinner at a local swahili restaurant, which was very cheap! the next night i went out with the omari project team for ... read more

Hi, finally managed to get to an internet cafe in Malindi, first of all Happy birthday to Dad again. Good to speak to you earlier. From last Sunday to Thursday i was in Mombasa doing my in-country-orientation. I learnt some swahili, kenyan culture etc. We were doing the training on the beach front!! Had our first taste of kenyan travel, going round in a mutatu, which is like a bus driving by boy-racers! quite an experience haha. We spent all day traveling to Malindi from Mombasa where i got alot of pictures of the amazing scenery inbetween. unfortunatly the internet is so slow here, i will have to wait til mid-August to able to show you all, as they are putting fibre-optic broadband in all of kenya. We met our kenyan host home who is called ... read more

Week one After a gruelling 5 hours on the coach from Birmingham to Glasgow, we arrived on a rainy and horrible day at Glasgow's Tramway. I was greeted by my host family, Colin, Irene and Paul, who greeted me very warmly and made sure i felt right at home straight away. Sarmad and I were driven back to the house in Colin's van/home made caravan(!) in record timing according to Paul! When we arrived, i looked acroos the road and saw a golf course, looked at the front garden which is actually part of the graveyard they live in! The house is a four bedroom home, a big and extremely fun back-garden and they have to bordercollies called Bobo and Jackie. We had our First day of training the next day in Glasgow. We had slight ... read more

Hello All, i've decided to make as much use of the computers while iv'e got them! I started out the day finding out what makes us, us. We did it in an onion sort of way by putting ourselves as the middle and putting in the layers of what made us, with the closest one the most important and the furtherest one that had a brief touch. We then broke for lunch. After standing by the food for almost 5 minutes deciding on which meal i might like the least, the dinnerladies took pity and made me a cheese omelete :). After lunch we got into the room and found out about cross-country culture and relationships. We had to describe our country in 5 words, that were given to us by our project supervisor Peppy. We ... read more