Moving On

Teizeen:

Tomorrow is our last day volunteering with SANA International, after which Ryan and I have a number of things planned. What this also means is that we probably will not be able to upload any more photos since we won’t have the good internet connection. But we’ll be posting blogs as we can.

We were going to go backpacking to Kakamega Forest, not to far from here for 2 nights this weekend. However, we asked about the park fees local Kenya Wildlife Service office and it costs $20 per person per day to enter the park and another $15 per person per day to camp the night – that racks up to $140 for the two of us for 2 nights! They have student rates, but they only apply if you’re traveling in an organized student group. Unfortunately, Ryan and I, both students, don’t constitute an organized group. My expired Kenyan passport might get me resident rates, but that didn’t work in Masai Mara. So, we’ll see. We’ll pack for 2 nights but probably just stay one if we can’t get lower rates.

Next: paint the outside of the Kiwanis Nursery School (which Rachelle runs). That is, if they approve the design that I sketched out. The nursery school shares space with a church, so the church has to approve the design before we can paint, and then we have to get some paint donated. We only have next week left, so if things move along fast enough, this might happen.


After this, we have a combination of things planned after returning to Nairobi: Lake Naivasha, camping at Hell’s Gate National Park (this is supposed to be a spectacular place with gorges, two extinct volcanoes and hot springs), meeting up with my old friend Libby from high school who I haven’t seen in 9 years, return to Mombasa, go to Lamu (island that has just one emergency vehicle and otherwise only donkeys and bicycles), swim in the Indian Ocean, and spent some more time with my family.