Thought I should write a "before" blog, might make things more interesting. I guess I'll introduce myself. My name is Lisa Grisafe. I'm 21 years old. I'm a senior in college, nursing student, liberal, travel loving, tattooed ( only a few), freckled, scared of dolls and deep water, Irish-Italian American woman and the list goes on. I leave tomorrow on the most liberating trip I have and may ever take. I'm off to Kenya for the summer to volunteer/ intern in a clinic in Kibera, Kenya, the second largest slum in sub Sahara Africa. Why, you ask? Well pull up a chair, get comfortable and let me tell you why. First of all, I have always wanted to go to Africa. Ever since my childhood, watching the Lion King, visiting the Brookfield Zoo exhibits that ... read more