Hello!
So much to say and so little time! We have safely arrived in Nakuru, Kenya; a place which we are delighted to call home for the next two months. The weather has been lovely, our house is beautiful, and most importantly the YESS/QHO Kenyadian family is finally together again. Our house is full to the brim with excitement about our upcoming project (as well as dance lessons, high jump competitions and music playing from every corner).
This year's peer educators have been lucky enough to already try several kinds of Kenyan food thanks to Papa Shirash, aka shocolocobangoshee (at least 20 letters!), aka Sammy our beloved cook. We have mostly settled in and are eagerly leaning about each other's cultures, backgrounds, goals and ambitions. The real work starts tomorrow, when we will be starting our departmental work surrounding Monitoring and Evaluation, Training, and Logistics. We will also be practice teaching this week, pairing up with our teaching partners, visitng all six schools we will be training at, and working on building team spirit and partnership.
It has been a fantastic start thus far; better than anyone could have hoped for! I cannot wait to see what the next few weeks will bring.
Love,
Nicole
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ReplyDeleteMambo Nicole!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you guys are right into the swing of things and the project is off to a great start! Say hello to Sammy for me...tell him FLIPS! FLAPS! FLIPES! says hi and that I miss him very much. Same to Reubs, Ibra, and Ng'Ok. Savor the busy and hectic days ahead because you know what your amazing hard work and dedication will accomplish! I'm stoked to hear all about it.
Keep it Swari Fresh,
love,
FLiPS
ps. throw me a facebook message to let me know when I should call =)