The 2 K s

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 should be simply to claim a small piece of land in a slum and just build.....but nope! thats just not how things go here! First you have to talk to the "village elders". These people ... read more

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 with that said we were able to complete 2 full classrooms and a new kitchen!! the compound doesnt even look similar to the old school which many of you have seen pictures of!!! I cant ... read more

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 zoos that you and I are use to where the lions are keep in large enclosers allowing them to have room to run and walk and hide etc, these lions are kept in cages smaller ... read more

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 this evening during feeding time and upload them. I'm lucky that I am unable to take home kittens and animals back to Canada or I would be tempted haha. ... read more

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 arrived to the clinic she was just laying on her side, her temperature was so cold and she could barely breath. Aparently one of the vet assistants had "force fed" her by syringe that morn'n ... read more