...of the classroom phase of this semester! Our internship starts next week, so we have our Swahili finals tomorrow and Wednesday, and the rest of the week off. It's been more than 6 weeks since we arrived here, which is hard to fathom.
I decided to spend the last weekend in Maasai Mara (there are pictures here), and it was amazing. It was well worth the cost, and we even got to step foot in Tanzania for a little while.
As for the business end of things, the research proposals are almost done, and all of the research papers have been started! I'm not sure how much I'll get done before the week is out, but I'm sure not a lot is going to be accomplished in the field, so I'm trying to wrap everything up.
I finally have more information about my internship- I'm going to be talking working with a woman who runs a pre-school, and who's also a prominent member of the deaf community (although she's not deaf). I'll also be working with PLWH (people living with HIV) in the community, and talking about health issues.
I'm very excited about this, but it's going to be hard to leave my host family. They're really great, and on top of the warm fuzzy feelings, they JUST got cable and internet. But at least I'll have 300 channels to surf when I come back from my hut!
Well folks, looks like I'm off to the gym again. I'm trying to maximize the little metered running I have left, I don't think they have mile markers on the roads outside Kisumu.
Mia
I decided to spend the last weekend in Maasai Mara (there are pictures here), and it was amazing. It was well worth the cost, and we even got to step foot in Tanzania for a little while.
As for the business end of things, the research proposals are almost done, and all of the research papers have been started! I'm not sure how much I'll get done before the week is out, but I'm sure not a lot is going to be accomplished in the field, so I'm trying to wrap everything up.
I finally have more information about my internship- I'm going to be talking working with a woman who runs a pre-school, and who's also a prominent member of the deaf community (although she's not deaf). I'll also be working with PLWH (people living with HIV) in the community, and talking about health issues.
I'm very excited about this, but it's going to be hard to leave my host family. They're really great, and on top of the warm fuzzy feelings, they JUST got cable and internet. But at least I'll have 300 channels to surf when I come back from my hut!
Well folks, looks like I'm off to the gym again. I'm trying to maximize the little metered running I have left, I don't think they have mile markers on the roads outside Kisumu.
Mia
