Anyone who has been following this blog should have picked up by now that one of the greatest challenges I face on a regular basis living in Kenya has nothing to do with the leopard outside my door (it’s actually a serval), nor the rampant corruption, nor the lack of motivation, but instead is found [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 29, 2009
Updates, non-sequential
So my life seems to have forked in many different directions, and I guess I am now a multi-threaded application. Heck I might even be multi-process. I don’t know. Pole sana (very sorry) for the computer nerdom. As a result, I will update you all in discrete blocks, as to the happenings [...]
March 24, 2009
Do You Like Kenya?
“Do you like Kenya?” I ask this question to almost every new mzungu volunteer I run across in this country. And every time I get and answers and they are all slightly different, and I am not going to elaborate on any of the responses because I fear crossing a line into the land of [...]
March 22, 2009
Matatus
You have frequently read the word matatu and are probably wondering by now what the heck is it. Some of my readers may have discerned it is a mode of transport and of course, those clever ones would be correct. But let me say, there is no mode of transport like the matatu in existance [...]
March 18, 2009
Adventures in kenya-land
Ok, so I am alive. Sorry for no updates in a while, but I have been off adventuring and working out in central province for the past few days. Starting on Thursday, PCV Krystle and I headed via train from Mombasa to Nairobi. The train is an overnight ride, leaving Mombasa around 7:40pm and rucking [...]
March 10, 2009
Some progress!
Last week in teaching classes was a normal week. Some classes showed up, some did not. I think I taught maybe 1 class, but it doesn’t really count because I took Thursday and Friday off to host a language immersion workshop.
But last week did affirm something that I find hopeful. There are kids who care [...]
March 3, 2009
Photo Update
Some pictures of the baboon invasion and some monkeys are new to my photo stream, so check it out at the right!
March 3, 2009
Last Week in… Teaching!
Continuing in my series, last week was a tough week for a teacher. Certainly, as described below, I deemed my lesson planning a personal success. The catch is that if you count ‘em up, I only taught three classes last week. Normally I teach six.
The first class that did not show up was my Tuesday [...]
March 2, 2009
Last week in… lesson planning!
Ok, so this in one part in my “Last week in…” series. I may or may not type the other parts. It all depends on how much I really want to go cook my dinner. So here we go.
Last week in lesson planning I had a brilliant idea to try and combine teaching, cultural exchange, [...]
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