Hello everyone, hope all is well in your big super rich, comfortable, luxurious homes back in the states! We toured the biggest slum in Thika yesterday, it's called Kiundutu and is just a mile or so outside the town center. About 100,000 people call this place "home" and the houses probably aren't [Read more...]
Hey, everyone! Sorry about the double post. The computers here are from the 1980s and the Internet isn't that reliable. :) That's also why we will not be posting any pictures until we make it to South Africa (hopefully). We're still here in Thika. We start our volunteer project tomorrow, since [Read more...]
Danette here. Cassi sent me the following and asked me to post it. Most information seems similar to her previous post, but being the dutiful sister that I am, I will post it anyway. Can't get enough of Cassi and Nic, right? :) And now a few words (although many are repeated) from [Read more...]
Well, we are alive! I just spent 20 minutes typing up a post of everything going on, but this computer shut itself down. :( Now I'm running out of Internet time. Here are some of the highlights: -We spent our first night in a house in one of the Nairobi slums. We couldn't really go out, but [Read more...]
Well, we made it to Johannesburg after only 26 hours of traveling. Tomorrow morning we will fly to Kenya. We would write more, but we've had about 4 hours of sleep in the past 50 hours, and it's time to go to bed (yay, a real bed instead of a plane seat).