This past week was wonderful. Our first day we went on a steep hike up Mt. Longonot. We saw a gazelle in the wild forest and had lunch up at the top of the crater. Later that day we arrived at our campsite and settled in and had our first kiswahili lesson. Jambo! The group […]
Monday, 9/10/12 Greetings from Nairobi! It hasn’t yet been 24 hours since the group arrived in Kenya, and we are already having a great time. Most of the group landed late last night. When we arrived at our hotel, we had some good food and fell directly to sleep. This morning, once the entire group
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Everyone has arrived safely in Nairobi and has met up with the group except for one young man who misconnected in London because of bad weather in New York. He will join the group by tomorrow morning Kenya time, and at that point the program will be officially launched.
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Land of a thousand lands Before I arrived in Morocco, I used my computer to scope out the country through Google Maps satellite vision and Google Earth. It looked like a dry, burnt, barren wasteland. After being in Morocco, and traveling from Fez to Azrou to the Sahara to Marrakesh to Casablanca, I understood
My roommate Lilia and I lucked out because our homestay mother, Fatima, and her 22-year-old daughter both spoke fluent French, and I did too. We only realized what an asset this was when we Americans on our trip discussed the ‘familial’ relationships we had with our homestay families. Most of the other Americans on the
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