So I having been meeting lots of Americans lately. There was a group of students from North Carolina that had come up to Wongonyi for 2 weeks. I hung out with them one night it was pretty fun. They came up just to learn mainly about the culture. I hope groups like this can come up more because the groups have fun people here love sharing and it brings someone money to the community. I feel bad for one of the girls she had a fear of birds which means chickens too. Up here chickens ran EVERYWHERE. It is very common for a chicken to join you for lunch in the restaurant to eat crumbs left behind.
I am planning to teach the fish farmers from a book I got in Zambia and I hope to start next month. There is so much about fish farming. The problem is our fish are not big enough and we need to get them bigger. I wish it was as easy as just giving more food....
I am also once a week working with a leather crafts group and a basket group. They pretty much just make things and sell them but they don't have a list of what they sell or where to sell. I am trying to help this by making a catalog but it is very polepole(slow). I feel really bad the other day a lady had a basket they was very different than the other ones. So I ask her if she wanted to make more and I could try to help promote. The next meeting she got everything out of the bag and thought I was going to buy it..I am getting by with my swahili but I wish I was better. Such a love hate relationship me and swahili have!
This past week I had got to Nairobi to meet the new PCVs. I went to the airport to greet them. They are all very excited. This group put Kenya over 100 Peace Corps Volunteers in Kenya. When I had got here there was only about 50. I was with the volunteers for 2 days sharing about how it is to stay with a host family and I also sat in on site placement interviews. I didn't really have much of an interest to do this kind of stuff before but now that I have been doing it, it is really fun to past on new information to a new group. There are 36 of them only 7 business and the rest public heath. I will be going to Loituktuk(the training site) in a week to talk and share about business.
I was on my way home and I get a call from a number and I text him back asking who he was and I the music in my bus was too loud to talk. He responds back MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU DON'T HAVE MY NUMBER IN YOUR PHONE? I then knew who it was there is a driver, we always joke wishing happy holidays that are not the right time of year. A lady from Wongonyi was on my bus and told him I was on the bus so I could get a ride with him. I was nice, So many times I have to wait so long to get up the hill but I get a fast hair cut and headed up!
Other news my project is coming to an end in June. I am kind of looking forward to it because it will just mean I can work with the projects to continue and there will not be so many new things in the way. Well thanks for reading! Enjoy summer!
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