Or maybe a new beginning… It’s a bit of both, really. Honestly, I’m sitting at this cyber cafe at my last night in Mombasa. I’ve got about two hours left before I hop on the overnight bus to Nairobi. Oh my gosh, I can now take the overnight bus (Peace Corps policy doesn’t allow PCVs to [...]

A whole new meaning to that title… Here’s how it went. I was teaching Maths in Class 1 this morning, when all of a sudden, my colleague, Madam Eunice shoves my purse into my chest in front of all to see and signed to me, “I think you have ants in your purse!!” I was [...]

August came along and went about, with just the same swiftness that I can’t hardly bring myself to accept the fact that it’s September already. Last Monday, it was the first day of the last term of our 2009 school year. And it’s ironic… In the States, Labor Day weekend usually marks the end of [...]

So here I am… finally forcing myself to sit and write. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long… Maybe it’s because I feel like I don’t know what to say anymore or what’s there to share… Maybe it’s because I’m becoming selfish and indulging myself into my experiences here and the more immerged [...]

SURPRISE!! This Pendo girl has not only been busy with school, secondary projects, and everything that entails my Peace Corps lifestyle, but also catering to some of my latest food addictions… or rather, new discoveries that I just happen to love. Cilantro is out for now. Some of the newest addictions aren’t new or unfamiliar, [...]

SURPRISE!! This Pendo girl has not only been busy with school, secondary projects, and everything that entails my Peace Corps lifestyle, but also catering to some of my latest food addictions… or rather, new discoveries that I just happen to love. Cilantro is out for now. Some of the newest addictions aren’t new or unfamiliar, [...]

SURPRISE!! This Pendo girl has not only been busy with school, secondary projects, and everything that entails my Peace Corps lifestyle, but also catering to some of my latest food addictions… or rather, new discoveries that I just happen to love. Cilantro is out for now. Some of the newest addictions aren’t new or unfamiliar, [...]

Well, not quite so happy… Let’s just say, on my way to Uganda on Christmas Day, I became careless and lost my phone, which I eventually replaced but lost all my contacts (still trying to collect them one by one to this day). Then when I came back to Mtwapa after the New Year, I [...]

Yea… it looks like it! I walked into Sarit Centre (like a mall) in Nairobi and everything was decked in the holiday spirit! Christmas trees with shiny ornaments along with flickering Christmas lights, festive holiday wrapping paper and of cousre, the lean Kenyan Santa! I couldn’t help but laugh because where else would you find a [...]

 In the past 4 weeks…   -         I’ve attended a week-long workshop in Kilifi to learn more about HIV/AIDS and how to establish a peer educator network in our schools with our pupils as peer educators. -         Obama won the Presidential Elections (still amazes me to this day!), where Kenya, most of the States and the rest of [...]

The Sunday Nation paper today had the headlines of, “Yes he can!” with Obama’s face taking up the entire front page of the paper… Naturally, I bought the paper and to find that literally 80% of the paper had articles about Obama and McCain!! There was EVEN an advertisement making a reference to Obama! It [...]

You know when you are in Kenya if… …you take a bus trip to Nairobi and see zebras grazing on the side of the road, as cows would do in the Midwest. …people exclaim, shake and/or kiss your hands, jump up and down in joy with big, bright pearly smiles when they find out you’re American and [...]

Life without the bui-bui and the Ramadhan routine feels really weird. I was getting used to getting up at 3am to eat breakfast before the sun rises, getting used to not drinking water or food all day, walking around with the bui-bui to my wrists, ankles and headscarf amidst the heat, breaking my fast with [...]

Wow! It’s almost the end of Ramadhan?! Wednesday is Eid Mubarak (the last day of Ramadhan) and it’s almost like Christmas here in Kenya where everyone prepares two or three days in advance for Eid. I am not going to be teaching on Tuesday and Wednesday, I think because I will be “prepping” for the [...]