Paige, have been following your blog since my daughter sent me a link to it. Her name is lauren and she was with you in Kenya. Welcome home and so glad you are back safe and sound. Take care of yourself and have a fantastic life. You deserve it along with all of your other PCV's.
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Miss you babe. Enjoy another cookie for me! Totally jealous of those.
My pink Target watch battery died on March 20. The seven dollar watch I had bought for Kenya and have worn daily since the day I left America died on March 20. Time stopped at that moment, and that is the day I left. My time was officially done in Kenya. As I was exiting [...]
paige just remember the faces of all the MARRIED men because the wife starts the whole thing...and get a leopard detector
Is it callous to say that, while at first I was like D: , now I'm thinking this is kind of a fun game?
Helpful hint: Rumor has it that if you greet the night-runner with a panga, instead of a handshake or scream, he will never come back. The More You Know... do doo dooo.
Also, I'm pretty sure silver bullets are quite effective.
I can now say I have been terrorized. I was not harmed, touched, or threatened in any way. But I was indeed terrorized in the night. At 3 A.M. my friend awoke to a tapping sound at her window. When she looked, she saw fingertips. We called the watchman and he searched the area and [...]
I sense a faint undercurrent of exasperation on this issue. Recommendation: don't get lazy. Or, if you do, reallllly go all out.
Since coming to Kenya, I have experienced a new feeling that I had previously never felt. In the hustle and bustle of college with impending exams, projects, and activities, I rarely had a time where I truly had nothing to do. Within minutes of me sitting down to watch TV, the sheer guilt of relaxing [...]
<i>You are exercising now? No. I’m just resting (as I’m wearing a dress and eating a goddamn donut).</i>
roflmao
hahahahah This is hilarious. Are the conversations really simple like this between native Kenyans? I hope you get married to someone that does not know your name.
People keep asking me what I do every day, and I never really know how to answer that. It’s a harder question than it sounds. Do I go to an office and sit at a desk? No. Do I go to school from 9-5? No. Do I perform surgeries and deliver babies in hospitals? No, [...]
So I was invited to a Silver Jubilee Ceremony at the church I was staying at. For those who don’t know, the ceremony celebrates the 25th anniversary of a priesthood. The priest being celebrated was someone whom I’ve never met, but this church was hosting it and it therefore was a big deal. I wouldn’t [...]
I tip-toed into the back of the large sheet metal building and found a seat on the last wooden bench. Children were restless and whining, but as soon as they caught sight of me they shut up. The congregation was listening intently to the pastor in front of the room, who gave a nod as [...]
A number of things occurred to me this morning as I was scraping away the last bit of toothpaste out of the tube. One, my dad’s practices on how to get every penny’s worth out of the tube were finally being put to use. Two, I’ll have to crack open this new Kenyan toothpaste tomorrow, [...]
Trust is something I never thought about too much. I felt pretty safe and trusting living in Lincoln, Nebraska- I can count the number of times I actually locked my car. When I met people randomly, I never usually thought twice about their motives, especially if they were introduced to me by someone I already [...]
Last weekend I went exploring with Lauren in her village of Kaimosi, which is on the road to Kaphsabet. We found the Hill of Vision, which is a lookout point over the Kakamega Rainforest. Basically it was at the top of the world. From the top of the cliff, we saw something that caught our [...]
Also, this is a bit dated, but here is a link to a short video I took at our Peace Corps Swearing in Ceremony. We had traditional African tribal dancers come in and perform for us. The only reason the video stops where it does is because I went to join in shortly afterward.
I could find and marry a husband tomorrow. I’m not so sure this would be the case in America. However, here in Kenya, I have come to realize that I am “hot commodity” in terms of marriage potential. Let’s face it-I am “white” and surely I can take them to America, the land where money [...]
I heard a very bizarre thing today, and bizarre may be an understatement. I was at the hospital visiting some mobile clinics and I stopped in one patient room because I saw a large mound of avocadoes (completely unrelated to the story, sorry). What I found in that room was a lot more fascinating. A [...]
Lately, I’ve been doing work with a Community based health care program run by the district hospital. Every day, they drive to a different community- in the middle of nowhere- and offer mobile clinics for epileptics, traditional birth attendants (midwives), mothers with infants, and other groups in need. I went to an epileptic clinic because [...]
A funny thing I’ve learned here is that Kenyans don’t put much importance in names. It’s a strange phenomenon. I know we Americans don’t have the greatest memory, and many times you forget a person’s name immediately after you ask for it. In fact, this isn’t an issue with remembering; it is a problem with [...]
This is a view from the entrance of my house This is my kitchen. You can see my homemade curtains. I had a carpenter in town custom make that bar with shelving behind it. Literally, I drew it on a piece of paper and said, “Make this.” In front of the bar you can see [...]
So I woke up one day and decided to go on a mission. I set off to bike to Kakamega, a city 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) away. I had been told that the road there was flat and it seemed like a good way to save money as well as get some exercise. I figured [...]
So funny thing- all of the experiences I’ve had over the last two months have somehow been overpassed by the happenings of the last four days. I’ve went from Nairobi to a plantation-like town called Mumias. It has a different province, different language, different climate, different religion, and one more thing- completely different company. We’ve [...]
I saw a small blurb in the paper the other day that caught my eye. “Woman dies of poison after learning HIV status.” It went like this: a couple went to the Volunteer Counseling and Testing and they found out they were HIV positive. They then went home together and took poison, and the woman [...]
Something I’m beginning to figure out is that there are many myths surrounding HIV and how it is spread. Take this story from a current PCV for example. He was teaching a group of adult men how HIV is spread. One man raised his hand and said, “So, if a man has HIV, every time [...]
So I’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding what I’m actually doing here. From my blog, it probably sounds like all I’ve been doing is running, studying, and partying, which is pretty much exactly what I did in Lincoln. So I’ll give a rundown of what a typical day during these last two months [...]
I’ve been here for a little over a month now, and it turns out that I’ve actually learned a thing or two. I’ve learned that if I drink 2.5 liters of water a day, I need to set aside time every four days to purify a new batch of water- and maybe even more often [...]
I know we’re not supposed to do this, but for the blog’s sake, this is the last time I’ll do the math to figure out prices in Kenya compared to prices in America. If you didn’t already know, American dollars can go a long way here. Weekly Peace Corps allowance: $32 Cell phone: $32, and [...]
Where do I even begin? It’s been exactly three weeks since I left Omaha, Nebraska for Loitokitok, Kenya, but I feel like it’s been at least 3 months because so much has happened and I’m learning so much. After almost 3 weeks of daily four hour Kiswahili lessons, I feel confident enough to hold a [...]
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