Feeling Fine

THIS WAS WRITTEN A MONTH AGO AND I FORGOT TO PUBLISH IT!! SO HERE IT IS NOW

OK - I am now totally recovered from both of my leg injuries. I am so relieved to be able to walk everywhere and to participate with the running club.

School is now out of session and the month of August will be a bit relaxed for me. I will work on lesson plans for next term. I am adding a "Chill Club" program for grade 7; I can do this in English and so will not need an interpreter. Chill Club is conducted in many Kenyan schools and is an HIV/AIDS education, awareness program for teens. Grade seven can even have an occasional 20 year old attending, so HIV education is very much needed at this grade level. There are few students under the age of 15.

Since recovering, I held a beach volleyball tournament with another PVC. It was a big success. Even though the beach is visible from Kadzinuni and not a great distance away, some of the participants had never been to the beach! Some kids were more interested in practising their gymnastics!

I also took a one day trip to the Arabuka Forest. Spent the night in a tree house in the hopes of watching elephants at a watering hole. Well, the elephants did show up but it was almost dark and also there was thick foliage obscurring the view. But the elephants made very loud elephant noises which made the experience fun. To get to the tree house you must walk 4.5 miles inside a high electrified fence (that keeps the elephants and cape buffalo inside). We walked in with a guide but the walk out was fast with some looking over shoulders to see what was around you.
I was with a Kenyan who seemed very concerned about the situation and made me almost run out the entire way. I am including some photos here of the tree house.

I took my Kenyan family to the Mombasa zoo - they had never seen any of the big African animals. It was really a wonderful day. I am having some computer problems right now and so will close by adding a couple more pictures from around my area. Well - that isn't happening so will close for now!

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