Yesterday our host mom Grace took Kristin and I into Nairobi to purchase our bus tickets to Mombasa this weekend. I can honestly say it was nice to finally get back to Ngong after being in Nairobi...sooo many people....Tuesday is our host "brothers" birthday and it is turning 19 so Kristin and I decided to buy him a DVD since he loves watching movie. We got Ocean's Eleven....we also bought him a birthday cake! Grace informed us that no one here reall...

Last night I got to experience another first....Bucket shower in the dark......It's funny b/c I thought taking a bucket shower sucked....but that's when I had light to see what I was doing....haha I had my head lamp with me which produced a little bit of light but it got interesting once I got to the part where I needed to wash my hair.....go figure as soon as I got out the electricity came back on haha. It was a good expereince thought b/c it made me realize ho...

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...