So people, I think this will be my last blog of the trip since I am flying home in three days! This trip has been anything but un-interesting! I think everytime I come I learn more and more about the ways of the land and how corrupt things are here sometimes!!! I dont think I wrote in the last blog about what has been going on so much other than illness!!! Prior to falling so sick, I was busy overseeing the building of two new homes for 2 of the women in the group. Now, you or I would think it [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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Well I am happy to write that saturday the main construction of the classroom I fundraised for was completed!!! After all the stress of doing presentations to variable organizations and random estimations on cost of supplies, the structure is now standing and will be fully functioning come september when the students return to class!!!! For those of you who might not know, when I revealed to the ladies at living positive that I would be building a new classroom it brought about a bunch of fundraising efforts of the other volunteers that have been here for a month before me! So [View Full Entry]

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Hey all!!! Sorry to keep you all on the edge of your seats about where in the world I am currently!!! I'm finally back "home" in kenya after a tough month in Egypt! The reason for such a long delay between posts was, first, my departure from egypt was anything BUT magical! haha The chairperson in egypt ended up being a complete PSYCHO!!! During our final fight, I decided it was just best to leave and head to kenya where I knew people would love to have me! So on that note, I did a quick tour of the pyramids and [View Full Entry]

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I got to have the experience today of visiting the local zoo in the town which I have been living in for the past month...and let me just say - Oh My God! I have never seen such conditions like this in my life! It looks like in its hay day it might have been an okay facility but now it is just run down and awful! It was so awful that I couldnt even bring my self to see the whole zoo and all its animals. The only ones I saw were the lions/tigers and the baboons. Unlike the many [View Full Entry]

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Only 10 more days and I will officially be out of Egypt and on the soil of my second home - Kenya! This week has been so frustrating in the country they like to call Egypt! I have to stop and think sometimes why I am even here. The medical system is soooo backwards it doesnt even make logical sense...for example apparently even though we are a clinic and we are allowed to do surgery and treat animals we are not allowed to have any animals in clinic for more than a couple of days or we risk being shut down [View Full Entry]

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I obtained two new roommates 3 days ago, but they are not of the human variety!! They are 2, 15 day old kittens!!! They are probably the cutest things ever... although they are also the loudest things ever as well. They were found in the street abandond by their mother, and require syringe feeding every 2 hrs. They are soooo cute when they try to eat...they actually suck on the syringe and try to get more milk, and they get angry when I take it away to draw up more milk for them. I will try to take some pictures later [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday was to put it mildly - CRAZY! On thursdays the morn'n vet goes to a different part of town and offers free vet services to working animals (horses & donkeys) who cant come to our clinic because its too far! So yesterday was only the second clinic offered and it was so busy! The first clinic only 6 cases were seen and yesterday we saw 12. There were even more cases than that but some left because they couldnt wait to be treated etc. So next week I think it will be even bigger! I wish I had videos of [View Full Entry]

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So yesterday was a very sad day at our clinic! I woke up to the ringing of my mobile, with a call from the Chairperson askng me to go over to the clinic right away. We had a tiny 8 week old kitten in hospital since I arrived, she had been abandoned on our door step and was covered in ring worm. So the doctors have been treating her for the last week. She still looked as ugly as hell because she lacked most of her hair due to the ring worm but she was fisty and doing great. When I [View Full Entry]

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So the clinic that I am working at it very new and alexandria is very HUGE (i.e. 4 million people) so not a large number of people know of the free clinic yet. So for this reason we are out in the streets working with mostly horses and donkeys that are passing by the clinic on the street pulling carts etc. Some of the drivers dont want to stop because they are unsure what we are going to do to their animals but we've been lucky and most of the ones stopped the last few days have been great! Their is [View Full Entry]

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