Sunday, February 5, 2012

the city life and some excursions

Hello friends!

This week was the first week of classes in Nairobi and I was able to choose two electives. I decided on a Biodiversity course on the Conservation practices in East Africa and a gender course. I was planning on taking a History course but ended up finding the gender course to be interesting and low key so that’s that!

This weekend, we cast off our student persona and became full-blown tourists! We climbed Mt. Longonot (a volcano) in the Rift Valley! Either I’m in terrible shape (which is a total possibility; I eat so much here!) or else it was the elevation because I was EXHAUSTED going up the volcano and usually I’m okay with that sort of thing. But anyhow, I made it! And along the way, we saw a handful of zebras in the distance and one giraffe standing all by himself on the rim of a smaller, nearby crater.

This morning a group of us went to the Giraffe center in Karen (where we’re staying). So we spent the morning feeding and mooning after giraffes. THEY’RE SO COOL.

This week has been a bit stressful and it will only get worse because all of our assignments are due soon because (dunn dunn dunn DUUUUUUNNNNNNN!) we’re leaving for TANZANIA in a week! Tra lala!


At the moment, I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do for my 4-week IDS (independent study) at the end of the semester. I was thinking of doing Organic Farming stuff or something with A Rocha but am still undecided.  



That's all for now! Kwaheri!

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