Well end of week four, officially the half way line in the project! Only four more teaching weeks left... cant beilve how fast its gone, but at the same time i feel like ive been here forever! This week has been really good and both my Julie (my partner) and i feel we have have really got into it now at both of the placements. On monday and tues we had a nie group of children at Noble homes and we started on our weekly theme of 'Your loal area and family'! W...

This weekend we ventured out to Kakamega Rainforrest which is about 50 miles north of Kismum in the Vihiga Distirct. It is the only rainforrest reserve in Kenya an stretches for about about 30 kilometres. We decided that rather than doign an expensive packah\ge tour we would backpack it as a group as theose sorts of companies completley rip you off especially when it is so close! We managed to haggle down a matatu on saturday morning which went to Kakamega town.....

We have just arrived in Kisumu town itself after camping in a very remote area near Kit Mikai rocks for a week. (they are natural area of amazing granite rocks which were left from a volcano but the other rock erroded faster and left really random shaped rocks which look like a flinstone village!) We were staying with our giude/traingin organiser/general swahili contacts' rural family home... his father used to work in the government and the un until he left and ...