After reporting to you all that I had found myself settled into a consistent daily routine, last week took quite a few unexpected turns. What started as a normal week turned into working in a medical camp and ended with…
Hello! In the weeks since I last updated, my life has fallen into a steady routine. Since I do not have anything particularly extraordinary to update you all on this week, I decided to use this space to provide you…
Hello! Following my last post, I am due to update you all on my time spent in Mombasa! I traveled to Mombasa with a fellow volunteer to spend a week on the coast engaging with and participating in the projects…
Since I last updated, I have had another wonderful week in Nairobi and have traveled to Mombasa! I spent the majority of the past week working in the medical clinic. I am settling in well in the clinic and feel…
Another exciting couple of weeks have passed here in Nairobi! In the time since I last updated you, I have had my first official week of working in the medical clinic here. UCESCO’s medical clinic – the KAC Clinic –…
Greetings from Nairobi! I have been in Nairobi for a bit over a week now and am settling in wonderfully! My final week at home was filled with running errands and spending time with family and friends as I prepared…
The Great White Mountain. Kilima Njaro. Ol’doinyo’oibor. The Roof of Africa. No mountain captures the imagination quite like Africa’s tallest, the biggest and baddest of literally hundreds of volcanic peaks and craters and mounds that speckle East Africa. More accurately,…
My guide would alternately march ahead of me to set a brisk pace up the ashen volcanic scree and fall far behind me to let me dance alone through the craggy landscape, as he knew I liked to do. He…
This is the story of a permit, or permits, or rather dozens of different forms and files and flagrant red tape that I attempted to navigate to shoot a documentary in Tanzania. It’s a very long story, but I’ll try…
For anyone growing up under Kilimanjaro, the inimitable snow-capped peak rising from the Kenyan and Tanzanian plains, there is a second mountain, literally in the shadow of it’s greater cousin. This peak, though little known outside of the area, cuts…