Thank you, come again.

So I find myself in Africa. After a short visit to London I headed down to Kenya for a month. This trip began on July 10, and shall end on August 14. In between I will be traveling around Kenya, the main purpose of my trip is to teach an HIV/AIDS awareness course to five villages surrounding the Kasigua area. However, the group I am with is also trying to begin a biofuel project in the area to stop the use of coal in the villages.

The first two days of my trip were in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. We shopped around for supplies and picked up two presses (this is the biofuel tool, it creates briquettes out of old materials, like saw dust).

On the 15, we traveled down (or which ever direction Kasigua is to Nairobi) to Kasigua, the drive is normally a seven hour drive, but with all the random roadway stops it turned into an all day trek across Kenya. Stops ranged from selecting produce from roadside vendors to purchasing hand crafted statues and tables. Now driving in different countries is always a terrifying activity, (the South of Italy knows no speed limits, Tokyo drifting, does Mexico even have road laws? ) but Africa is another another thing, not only are there wild animals (giraffes, gazelles, and elephants) running along the highway, if the highway is not a dirt path with millions of potholes, it is a narrow two lane road where there is no such thing as two sides of the road, everyone passes everyone at their own discretion, as if that wasn't enough it is also common to bribe the police in order to pass barriers, if the drive isn't excitement enough I don't know what is.

The next couple of days were spent traveling around the villages setting up for the classes and purchasing baskets from the local women's weaver clubs. The group I am with purchases a number of baskets from each village, brings the baskets back and sells them at their local farmers market to make money for the club.

We have a bit of a delay on the teaching because the schools schedules keep changing. Due to the budget they are ending a week early, this poses a problem because now instead of a couple of weeks to teach we have one...whoops. on the upside we have a lot of free time, so now we are on our way to my first safari!!