Some Last Words From the States

So today is the big day.  We leave the country later today and head off to Kenya as a group.  In total there are about forty of us and everyone seems really great! We have done numerous activities and icebreakers and the entire group is participatory and enthusiastic.  Our demographics are also very widespread, covering [...]

Obama-rama in Kenya

So for those of you who do not know, President-elect Obama’s father was of Kenyan nationality.  As a result, Obama has been quite the celebrity in Kenya ever since his Illinois Senator race.  Below are some links to Kenya reactions in the news to the election of Obama.  For the first time in my times [...]

Some Pre-Departure Updates

So I received yet another document from the lovely Peace Corps, this one including details necessary to actually get me into the country and live: “Don’t drink the tap water in Kenya.”  Some updates that concern you, my lovely blog readers, include the fact that I will no longer be training in Embu, as expected.  [...]

FYI

I might do a real post later, but this one is just to inform anyone following that I updated the “About Me,” page.  Now of course, anyone who is at this point reading the blog will know all about me, but who knows, you might learn something new.