I can't believe we are already flying out of Cape Town today! This trip is flying by! Cape Town has been a really interesting place. It's pretty much Euro-San Francisco, with slums everywhere right outside the city. It seems there's no middle class, just the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor [Read more...]
We are in Cape Town now, and it seems we will have no problem with fast Internet or downloading photos (although I'm not sure we'll have time to do it today). We left Thika Monday afternoon and headed into Nairobi. We were dropped off at a house where other volunteers are staying, and then we [Read more...]
Our time in Thika has come to an end. Nic and I are very sad about it, and wish we could spend our remaining two weeks here instead of going to South Africa. We have made so many great friends and can't wait to come back again! This week has flown by! Through Family Health Option Kenya, we were [Read more...]
Hello, everyone! Well, we are back from safari. We have tons of great pictures and videos...too bad none of these Kenyan computer labs have USB ports...we're still hoping for South Africa. The safari was really cool. We went to Maasai Mara for the first few days. Pretty much the only animals we [Read more...]
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...]