Last night when everyone ran into the store, Thea and I stayed on the van. I asked Tony (one of the men who works for the bus company and rides everywhere with us) about some every-day-living-in-Nairobi questions. Here’s a few things I found out while talking to him. Very few people have refridgerators. The ones...
Monthly Archives: June 2011 I noticed her one of our first days here. She is tall, with strong cheek bones, and long braids tied back in a pony-tail. She seems far too strong for her age. Almost two years younger than me, Jennifer has three daughters: Zepora who is nine, Alice who is seven, and baby Esther who is...  Today, I met them. The faces I’ve been staring at on the photographer’s mac all year long. All the huge beautiful eyes and huge smiles. Finally. We arrived at our guesthouse late last night. After checking out our rooms and enjoying my long awaited orange Fanta (in a glass bottle), after the girls and boys...  We’ve been fundraising for almost a year, packing for weeks (okay- well, I’ve been packing for weeks), gotten shots, and I spent the entire day on Saturday running errands. After all of that, sitting on this plane doesn’t feel real. We’ll arrive in Nairobi in about three hours. One of the most surreal parts of... |
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