back from masai mara

well i'm back from my safari and it was amazing! we saw so many animals - a number of lions, giraffes, elephants, zebras, hippos, etc. i have a pretty cool video of some lions walking right up to our van. i went w/ abt 14 other volunteers and had a blast. i think a few of us are taking a trip to the coast in a couple of weeks, so i'll report on that as well. i'm actually thinking abt going to capetown, south africa for a wk in april but we'll see how much the flights are. i have a new friend from there, so i have a free place to stay. im also trying to plan a trip to zanzibar in march. i'm going to be completely broke when i get home. oh well.

other than that, things are still good. i'm starting to get used to things a little more. i'm in nairobi right now but am going to catch a bus back to ngong to go to the orphanage this afternoon. teaching has been going a little better. it's just hard b/c you really want to teach the kids so much, but it's a challenge b/c they don't have a full grasp of english. we do a lot of drawing pictures and writing both the english and swahili words on the small whiteboard we used. i'm really glad that i have the chance to do some teaching. not sure what i'll do when the teacher's strike ends, but hopefully rachel and i can still do a little teaching. i might end up staying in ngong longer than i had originally planned, but i guess we'll see how things turn out.

i'll hopefully update again later this week.