Getting the Ball Rolling...Again

Hello everybody who is reading this, and thank you for reading my blog : )

The first 2 weeks (already) of being in Kenya have flown by! Its crazy how quickly its gone! Only 6 weeks till the return to England which is a very scary thought, after being out here for 14 weeks. Anyways, too what we have been up to these last 2 weeks.

After arriving 2 weeks ago today, it was very difficult settling in. I was missing the lot from Tanzania so much, and I did not want to have to meet and get to know everybody all over again. Why couldn't I have stayed with the others? So that first week was very tough, the toughest so far, since the very first week in Africa. However, I have began to settle a bit more now, so its getting much better although I still miss Tanzaaaaania crew alot, and the gang from home as well.

Our first week was spent building a foundation ditch, around the sides of the local school to stop water from seeping into the actual foundations of the school and undermining it. This took longer than expected and was a little hard as pushing wheelbarrows full of cement over sand with weedy arms is not my strong point, but we eventually got it done, and moved on to smashing up the classroom floor to re-cement it after it had all cracked in the heat, and we also had to paint the VERY high points of the school on a VERY high ladder, which was slightly wobbly, but it turned out ok, as I'm here writing the blog : )

On the Thursday we went on a cultural tour to see the bush doctor of the village, which felt slightly set up, but was good anyway. We then went to climb the palm trees that I mentioned last week, to get some coconut wine which is incredibly strong and not very tasty, but it was fun climbing trees. I mentioned we went into Mombasa on Saturday, which was very cool, so on to this week.

We continued smashing and painting the classroom this week, until Wednesday when we went to Tsavo East National Park for SAFARI!!It was very differnt to the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater, as it was much bushier, and not flat plains, so it was much harder to see any animals, however we did end up seeing and being charged at by a fully grown bull elephant which was AWESOME! The camp was very different to what we were used to in Tanzania, as we had actually huts, and beds for our safari in Kenya whereas we had tents in Tanzania. However, it was a very cool safari, and then on our return we had our African night, where we all dressed up as Africans, and had some traditional dancers over, and we (tried) to join in with them. Me and Tommy, one of the other guys, had a go on the drums, which was pretty dam cool.

Today we have just chilled on the beach, been on some camels, and got slightly burnt on the shoulder, but its been a good day, after speaking to people back home, which always makes me feel better : ) Thanks guys

Until next week again, Hakuna Matata

Josh