21.05.2009 sunny 32 °C

Ok yes, so I keep saying that this is the last time I can write a blog for ages, and then I reappear again, so I’m sorry but I will try to stay away now! We are all making the most of our last day at the beach for a while, so it was bikins at the ready this afternoon, and thankfully the weather has been BEAUTIFUL!

Tonight we are going to a restaurant called Ali Babar’s Cave (owned by the same guy who owns Forty Thieves!) which is described as the second best place in the whole of Kenya, so obviously we thought, why not?! It’s like expensive England prices, which out here is sooo expensive, but we are hardly gonna spend anything in the next Leap phase at Tsavo so thought we would splash out. Also, we are planning a safari in Tsavo, but just trying to haggle down the price, we’re such pros at haggling now, be aware!!!

Anyway on to this week, the rugby was such a laugh at the weekend, we also met a load of similar aged volunteers as us, which was really refreshing, we all chatted about our travelling plans and listened to their stories which was cool.

Working with Orphans

Working with Orphans

On Tuesday we went to a children’s orphanage an oh my god they are soooo cute!!!! I just want to take them all home with me, the list of them is growing! We were putting barbed wire around the land, because it’s open land otherwise. The orphanage is a single classroom with about 40 kids ranging in age from 4 to 8, and they are all so cute, we took balloons and bubbles, and they all went a bit crazy! I helped make their lunch, which was porrisge made of maize and sugar and loads of water. They normally have rice and beans but they can’t afford it at the moment, so we all gave some money so they could buy it. In the afternoon we made posters for the classrooms both at the school and the orphange. Then yesterday we went back to the orphanage and the did teaching after lunch. Teaching was amazing, we haven’t done much yet, so I will go into it further when I get back from Tsavo and have done more.

Emma xxxxxxxx