Sorry it has taken me so long to blog again. I always seem to do this when I travel --- I’ll write a lot about my experiences at first and then get completely tied up in wherever I am and forget to keep people at home informed about what I’m doing as soon as I get settled. For a really short account of what I’ve been doing since I last blogged (because this is a ridiculously long entry): I went to Tanzania, pet a cheetah, held a newborn lamb (eee!), started volunteering at the only library in Kibera (Africa’s largest slum), gone to school, hung out with my host family and other friends, eaten a lot of Kenyan food, and gone to church. That basically sums it all up. The HOPE library (part of the Nicofeli ... read more

Sorry it has taken me so long to post, and sorry this post is so looooong. I can’t believe I’ve been in Kenya only a week! It seems like forever already. So much has happened since I’ve been here, and I don’t want to bore people too much, so here are a few things to sum up my stay here, in bullet format!: -I have black snot all the time in Nairobi. The pollution sucks, and there is clearly no cash for clunkers here. -one of the first nights I was here, I was still jetlagged and went to sleep early (like 8 or 9 pm. I say “early”, but turns out that has actually been the norm for me my whole week here!). I kept asking people what time it was because I knew ... read more