Sunday was the last day of the safari, we were told we needed to tip both our driver and cook so before we actually left for the safari we had spoken with a couple different volunteers who had already been on the trip to see what amount we should tip. They said 1,000 shilling total for the group was a good tip. ($15 USD) so before we got into the van to come home I collected the money from everyone and gave it to the driver. 6 hours later when we stopped at Ge...

Sorry it's been a while since I last wrote. Things have been going well....hard a lot of the times but I'm getting through it. Last Wednesday was the hardest day I've had since I got here. There are two other volunteers that are working at Sidai, Allison and Jane. Allison is from the US and Jane is from London, England. UIt was great to meet the girls however they started telling us about the children's history and all the illnesses they have.....I started f...

Today was the first day Kristin and I worked at the Sidai orphanage. I don't even know where to begin......The orphanage is located in the slums in Ngong. It's about a 20 minute walk from our host families house. When we got there we met Anthony who is the son of the lady who started Sidai (Lucy). Lucy doesn't speak English very well so her son works more with the volunteers b/c he speaks English well. He started out giving us a tour of the center which cons...

Attempting to pick up where I left off.....During the second day of orientation we were taken to the black market to exchange money....at least that's what it seemed like....they took us to this market and we had to follow a man into a back room with little to no lighting....I guess the good thing is we got a great rate haha......After that we got in a Matatu and headed to Ngong which is the village we will live and work in. We met our host mom Grace. She is a ...

Well I have finally made it to Nairobi, Kenya. Kristin and I flew out of Chicago O'Hare on Tuesday night and took an over night flight to London, England where we had a 9 hour lay over. We decided to take the tube out into central London and do some sight seeing . We saw Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, House of Parliament, Tower Castle, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, the changing of the guard and maybe a couple other things I'm forgetting about haha.....Our next...