Homam Z

Today we woke up bright and early for breakfast which was bacon and eggs. We had an all day game drive and we saw lions, gazelle, elephants, giraffes, zeebras, water buffalo, and one black rhino. After a few hours we stopped for lunch in an open area of the forest. We made sandwhiches and ate them quickly and soon the monkeys came out and ate the scraps we had left. And before I could even say anything a monkey ran behind Ms.Genna, jumped on her and stole her banana peel right out of her hand. I bursted out in laughter when I saw this. That was probably the funniest moment of the Kenya trip. Those monkeys were small but they annoyed the tourists so much and ran around the place like mini cheetahs. After the guards ... read more

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 money towards the school's fund for their Science Labratory and then we set back off to camp. We took down our tents at camp and loaded our things onto the bus with Tom and left ... read more

Today wasnt really an exciting day of our expedition of Kenya. We woke up early in the morning and readied our day and ruck sacks. We got into the bus and began our journey to Sagana and the school we would help restablish. We spent six hours in the bus travelling and at one point my bus broke down and we had to stop to get the engine cooled down. We arrived at our new camp which was percariously perched near the school. Ms.Genna said that it would be a half hour walk to the school but after 2 and a half hours of walking and nagging we figured she was a little off. We made it to the school and it wasn't in horrible shape but it still needed a lot of work to be ... read more

Today we rose early in the morning once again but this time it was to something beautiful. It was snowing outside and a white beautiful blanket had already covered the ground. This was the first time in my life that I had every since snow and this showed me the diversity and beauty of Kenya's landscape and Mt.Kenya has shown me many different types of animals the farther we have gone up it, the more diverse amount of animals we began to see. Today's trekk was probably the most dangerous, difficult, tiring, and challenging hike yet. We started to hike and we saw large hills that were covered in unstable little pebbles. We hiked up these paths and we had to watch our every step. Even while doing this the path we had to take was ... read more

We rose in the early morn yet again and as I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes I realizied the air was thinner and the air was colder. I relaizied that we were getting closer and closer to the top of the mountain. We left the noisy Med. Station with high hopes of getting to the top of Mt.Kenya. We walked through more dense forest like scenery and we did this for several hours or more. We saw manymany types of animals like Water buffalos, monkeys, and we some more elephant tracks. The forest of Mt.Kenya was beautiful, so many plants and trees, all so full of life. Everything was beautiful, even the view of the actual mountain was pretty nice too. When we came across the swamp area that was tricky to get through ... read more