on the road again
i'm on my way back from muhuru bay where i worked at rabwao secondary school for two weeks. today i went on a safari and saw something like three million flamingos and lots of zebras, giraffes, and a couple of rhinos. so that was sweet. i'm really sad to be leaving rabwao because i became really close friends with a lot of the girls there. there are 60 girls there who are completely starved for attention, advice, and any sort of female role model. i taught math, physics, chemistry and biology while i was here, and it was suprisingly enjoyable. they're all amazing girls and i think i have about 58 kenyan pen pals now, which is sweet. let me know if you want to write some kenyans. the boys, on the other hand, are a bit wild. april, another girl from duke who is here got proposed to multiple times. we got to record the makeshift choir of the school performing their favorite songs in kiswahili (!!!!!). we're far away from lake victoria now, so it's colder and there's electricity and running water. now we're compiling and comparing data for our ethnography study as well as shopping like crazy people. i think i'll be checking my email one more time- so write back and you can say that you talked to the whitest person in kenya at the time other than andy cunningham. i miss home except that i love the food here- chapatis and mandazis are my favorites, two amazing variations on fried dough. i'll be home aug 2 so give me a call to keep my jet-lagged self awake during the afternoon. miss you guys...talk to you soonish. love, emilyps. funniest story of the trip- i rocked a backpacking version of the fanny pack as my purse for this trip which worked out ( fanny packs are, of course, both functional and fashionable.) so on our last day in muhuru, a girl that was my friend at school gave me an unexpected gift. i was thinking a picture frame, a bar of soap, anyrthing. but, no. out comes a brand new tacky fanny pack to accompany my old one. i mean, who doesn't double up on the fanny packs any ways. lmao.
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