africa

jambo family and friends!

well it took me three days (with zero sleep) to get here but i made it! unfortunately it was cloudy when we flew over north africa so i didn't get to see any landscape, but now i am in mombasa with the ocean and it's beautiful! the weather is actually pretty nice, sunny but not too hot, a little humid, but usually a little breezy too.it's the middle of ramadan right now so there are a lot more women out on the streets than normally, according to our director, athman, who is awesome. he's an african studies expert (a fulbright scholar from yale) and very sweet. our assistant director is named ali and is also SO sweet and adorable. we are currently living in the rooms above our program office, which is convenient for now, but we will only be here through friday, i think. none of us really know what is going on, africans are very relaxed, and when we asked our directs about plans and schedules they just say oh don't worry we'll get to that lol

so far all the food i've had is delicious, so great news for me! (great success!) lots of rice and meat and seafood, perfect. the exchange rate is about 10 kenyan shillings to one us cent, so everything is super cheap! which i am soooo happy about haha

we leave on friday for a rural homestay north of mombasa. the village is higher in elevation so i actually need to go buy some warm clothes (which our packing list failed to mention)

R

Day of Departure

My August has probably been the most hectic month of my life. I finished working at Gymboree, which I totally miss. I saw Laura get married in Tahoe, I flew to Spokane, and this week I have been scrambling to get everything done because I leave TONIGHT for Kenya and I think I'm ready. This is the first time I've had internet all week so hopefully there wasn't anything else I had to do on it hahaha

Hopefully I'll update this soon! Wish me luck!

Hugs,
R

Hola!

This is my first post as the trekking kiwi. In a little less than a month I will be heading to Mombasa, Kenya, for 15 weeks, and I invite my friends and family to follow this and know what the hell is going on in my life. Enjoy!

"Spend the years of learning squandering courage for years of wandering."
Samuel Beckett