Adventures in Africa
I'm quite excited. I found out today that I am heading out to visit our field office for some meetings in Western Kenya - Bungoma to be exact - just a few hours drive north of Kisumu. Rosemarie (the director of CSA) and I will be flying to Kisumu on Thursday and spend one night there before heading back Friday evening. Should be interesting to sit in on some meetings and also get a chance to see rural Kenya.
This afternoon everyone from the office went to pay our respects to one of our co-workers whose mother died last week. In Kenya when someone dies, you pitch in some money and either give it directly to the family to help pay for the funeral, or, as we did, go buy groceries and supplies for them, as they will have to entertain and host people coming to pay their respects.
The power keeps going off at work. All Friday morning, Monday for about half the day, and then this morning for about an hour. This makes things a little bit difficult when all the work you are supposed to be doing is on the computer. I've been reading a lot of newspapers. The stories and perspectives are a little different than you would find in North American media. The things that happen in Africa that you would never hear about in other parts of the world. It's quite eye-opening.
Quickly a really, really fun link courtesey of Mariza! Watch out - the song will get stuck in your head. Also, there are no tigers in Kenya - but it's still a great song. http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/kenya/
This afternoon everyone from the office went to pay our respects to one of our co-workers whose mother died last week. In Kenya when someone dies, you pitch in some money and either give it directly to the family to help pay for the funeral, or, as we did, go buy groceries and supplies for them, as they will have to entertain and host people coming to pay their respects.
The power keeps going off at work. All Friday morning, Monday for about half the day, and then this morning for about an hour. This makes things a little bit difficult when all the work you are supposed to be doing is on the computer. I've been reading a lot of newspapers. The stories and perspectives are a little different than you would find in North American media. The things that happen in Africa that you would never hear about in other parts of the world. It's quite eye-opening.
Quickly a really, really fun link courtesey of Mariza! Watch out - the song will get stuck in your head. Also, there are no tigers in Kenya - but it's still a great song. http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/kenya/
I heard today that a Kenyan official proposed to Chelsea Clinton and offered Bill goats and cows.
Well, he did - but it was a publicity stunt. And it was back in 2000 but now he's trying to get more publicity for it. Silly politicians. All it resulted in is people not taking Kenya seriously. But almost all the politicians here are corrupt fools, so maybe it painted the right picture.