Adventures

I just return from an amazing adventure with my dad.  He arrived a few weeks ago and immediately we were off to Masai Mara.  Masai Mara is one of the best game parks in all of Africa.  It shares the Kenya/Tanzania border with the Serengeti.  The highlight of the safari was seeing two cheetahs chase down a gazelle.  Unfortunately, our vehicle got stuck in the mud a mere fifteen feet away from the two cats and my dad and another guy got out to help push us out.  I stayed put as i have a whole life to live yet.  We finally got out of the mud and actually scared the cheetahs away.  It was by far the best safari I have been on.  After two days at Masai Mara we headed to Nanyuki to meet up with the rest of our expedition to hike mount Kenya.

Mount Kenya was amazing.  The first day we were forced to hike an additional five km since our matatu could not make it up the mud filled road to the park entrance.  We slowly made our way up to the peak over four days to avoid altitude sickness.  On the fourth day we woke up at 2 am to hike the remaining distance to the peak.  It was almost a full moon so we hiked to the peak with our headlamps turned off only using the moonlight.  We made it just in time to catch the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen.

Now its back to work.  We had a painfully long teachers meeting this morning in which we allocated classes among other things.  I am happy with the classes I will be teaching this year.  I will continue teaching math and English to my class (now class four), I will teach reading to classes 1, 2, and 3 and I will teach one lesson a week about AIDS/HIV to each of the upper primary classes (class 4 through 8).  I am pretty excited about the progress on all of my secondary projects as well.

I am also excited about getting my computer fixed soon so I don’t have to deal with this damn internet cafe crap.  Believe it or not its taken me 30 minutes to type this up because of the slow connection and overall slow computer that I am on at the moment.  So I apologize to everyone that sends me emails yet I have not responded yet.  Please bear with me.