Claire Graham

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Claire Graham

I am travelling to Kenya in the summer for 4 weeks. This is to make the most of my school holiday. I am looking forward to fulfilling a dream of working in an underpriviledged country and also getting to experience the many wonders of Kenya!



Africa » Kenya » Nairobi Province » Nairobi August 14th 2010

Ok guys....so another amazing week that I am about to update you with, but just to let you all know that I am going to make this my final blog as next weekend I won't get chance to come on so I will also now fill you in on what the plan is for the final week and a half of my trip :-( Right...Last Sunday after updating you all we went off to a beach BBQ real English style with coleslaw and jacket potatoes and everything! we were then treated to a special dance by a Masai tribe who shown us about 5 different traditional dances...quite scary at first but then they dragged us all to get involved so was funny! Some of the group made their way back to camp but we couldn't all ... read more

Africa » Kenya » Nairobi Province » Nairobi August 8th 2010

Thank you all for the comments and msgs responding to the blog it has made me more motivated to continue with it! Well now that I have been here for over 10 days I have alot to talk about but I will just share with you the highlights for now. After a day at the beach last weekend we started the week by continuing with the project work. The group i'm in started to build a fence around the school, this is a slow progress as they have very basic tools for us to use but all good fun. Whilst doing this we had some naughty children come and jump in the wheel barrow as the others pushed them off. They also were fasinated with wearing our sunglasses as some of them had never tried any ... read more

Africa » Kenya » Nairobi Province » Nairobi August 1st 2010

Right where to begin....I have been here only four days and there is already so much to talk about!! Having arrived on thursday afternoon after travelling for around 24hours with changes and delays we finally got to the camp that we are staying at for the first 10 days. There are around 30 of us on the camp from England, Holland and Australia but everybody is really nice and already feels like we have known each other for ages. We were picked up from the airport in a safari style truck with no windows or doors all open...at first this was quite daunting but everybody we passed just stops whatever they are doing to say hello especially the children they love to chase the truck waving which is really sweet! When we got to the camp ... read more




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