Hi Everyone!
We arrive in Nairobi on Friday night and the familiar smiles of Ng'ok, the YESS director, and Reuben, a YESS peer-educator, were at the airport to greet us. We made the journey to Nakuru yesterday, up along the side of the Great Rift Valley with a gorgeous view of the fields and a volcano below. Then we descended into the valley and arrived in Nakuru to find the lake here full of flamingoes. It turns out that where we will be living for the next 8 weeks looks out over the lake and national park - gorgeous!
This is the time that we have been working towards and waiting for all year long, when the 2009 QHO and YESS teams would finally meet! We have spent the last two days sharing about our organizations, countries and cultures and there will be more of that to come! OH! and trying Kenyan food of course! Our week ahead looks as though it will be a busy one with finalizing our teaching curriculum, visiting the schools that we will be training and firming up all of our plans. But the energy in our house is high and full of excitement. Everyone is eager to get to work and finally get into the classrooms.
I am so happy in be back here in Nakuru, Kenya!
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Leah, Nicole, and team,
ReplyDeleteIt is sooo exciting that you have arrived in Kenya. The Kenya project is truly unique in its partnership with YESS, a partnership the rest of QHO can learn from.
Everyone sounds so excited and I can't wait to hear more about this amazing experience. I can't wait until you start TEACHING!!!!!! :)
Peer-Eds - this is what you have been working all year for. Soak it up - you are such a strong team! I'm definitely jealous I'm not off on another adventure of my own. :)
Keep the updates coming!
<3 Northern love,
Gina
LEAH! Mambo vipi friend?!
ReplyDeleteSO that new house location sounds incredible!! Please take tons of pictures! Sounds like the team is meshing well together and I wish I was there to be a part of it all...and eat some Kenyan food too! (please tell Sammy I have yet to find a food to beat the taste of his sweet mandazi haha)
Looking forward to hearing more about the project and alot of other great stories!
lots of love
FLIPS!