- Getting to know the border police.....

So we got to Nairobi in the morning at five o clock and spend the day there - leaving our big backpack with a friend - and just taking our swimming stuff to head off the same night on the bus again: we went to mombasa- our first stop on the beautiful cost of Kenya. I liked it very much, we got to see the amazing old town, with a pretty crazy history. It is a mixture between Swahili, OmaniArabs, Indian, and Portugese as well as English culture. I know to tell the diffrence between the nice doors now :-) (I'm so proud of it :-) )
anyway- the next day we headed to the beach and were thouroughly impressed by the WHITE sand! coral sand - paradise palmtrees..
And after these a kind of really taugh travelling day started...we got up at six, it was pouring rain - and we found a small matatu to bring us to the boarder to cross to Tanzania - almost there I realised I forgot my mobile underneath my pillow in the last hostel ( I am very not proud about it... ) so we got there and realised, that the visa to get in was 50 dollars instead of 20- what we thought it would be. we had to pay in dollars, but we both only had Kenyanshillings or Tansanianshillings and the exchange rates to buy dollars were just totally horrible - so we spent two houers!!! talking to the police there that they let us in without a visa... in the end of these two houers - the police got friendlier and friendlier and they would of even let us in for 20 dollars if they wouldn-t have to pay it then themselves.. so they wrote in our passports that we could get the visa in dar es salaam.. and we went on.
It was another 8 houer journey to get to Dar es Salaam - once there we were tired and got ripped of by our taxi driver by going to our hostel which run out of the cheepest rooms.... so there we go - after a refreshing shower we found some nice food finally and were happy again- enjoying the friendly atmosphere of Dar es Salaam...
what a day!

The next morning we spent trying to get the visa from the immigration office in DAR - which was worse than the last day on the boarder - they actually told Duygu that she should of gotten it back in her country already!!! and so on going from office to office we almost got crazy - and in the end - after 3houers we finally got it...
So whenever you cross the boarder to Tanzania make sure to have these 50 dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

anyway - we cought the ferry that day to travel to the amazing island of ZANZIBAR... when we arrived I felt like I-m back 100000 years, back actually to not such a nice period, but the slave trade - because Zanzibar was a main exchange point for the slaves and while we were arriving with our huge ferry we saw these wooden daows in which they have been transported with lots of people on it. We were struggling to get out of the ferry, stuck in millions of people which just added to the feeling of beeing a slave yourself - it was very sad.
But then we stepped out in the Stone town of the island, the core I would say: it s soul. Amazingliy beautiful!! Tropic, white, with a laborinth of small, narrow ways - we always get lost finding our hostel here :-)...
Yesterday we have been on a SPICE tour - we saw lot s of plantations of Curry, peper, muscat, vanilla - I never knew how these things actually grow! and how interesing nice Muscatnut looks like!!!!! We have seen and heard a lot - eating spicy rice for lunch, and spending the late afternoon on some tiny lovely beach - on the way we got to know some Polish and Amercian Tourists - spending the day with us - I loved it!
Today is my last day with Duygu - she ll leave tomorrow and go back to Turkey. I ll miss her!
I myself will head to the norhtern part of Zanzibar - to have three beach days befor I have to start the long safari back to Nairboi and then, Friday night - back to Switzerland....

Mobile loss

This one just quickly to let you know - I lost my moblie - so please be patiant with me, because I won-t sms you until I ll get one when I am back in Switzerland.... SORRRY!!!

On the road again...:-) !!!!

uiui ui I don-t really now where to start - but one week ago Duygu and me said good by to our beloved Rabuor/ Sagam village - but not before we had two very nice gatherings of goodbye's:
The first one was with Willis, the man that is taking care of Mr. Rachiers house- where we stayed - we spent the whole day with him - walking up to where he s family is living, seeing his NINE! children, where they go to school, where he went to school, talking to the students there, which was really a special nice experiance. Then we walked to a marked and bought an alive! very beautiful white chicken... really it was so beautiful and fat and nice -and it became a good freind of mine .... - before we killed it.. actually one of the guys did... and we cooked it, Duygu and me made some fresh Guacamole and we invited all the people working there, Willis, his Wife and his youngest sun Felix. It was a delicous last supper in Sagam!
The next day, Friday- we went to the orphanage for the last time - it broke my heart a little bit to say good bye to "our" children and to sing our songs for the last time with them.
At four in the afternoon we invited everybody that we got to know a bit better to have goodbye drinks in the country club, outside there was a storm and inside -we were talking, actually having speeches where we told each other - every singel one in front of everybody what we were thinking of one another, what we wish for one another- it was very intimate, moving - at first a bit akward for me - but in the end a very nice way to say goodbye, because you could say all you wanted before you live.. I will for sure never forget it! Then we were off to our bus to Nairobi...

Still in Sagam... :-)

Just a short note to let you know - I am still in my cosy, peacful, homely Sagam village - I just can't leave :-)... Duygu and I decided to work for one more week before we're off to the ocean - Mombasa and Tanzania. But today we bought our tickets and I am already very much excited..
In Sagam I really enjoy working, we found a third place to work: The compassion center. It is also for young children. They always organise Saturdays for children, with breakfest and lunch and they teach them diffrent things from school-during the week there is a kindergarten there, called nursery school and the compassion center has a lot of office work to do, because it is sponsored by an international NGO. So for excample I was writing lists of all the 212 children, so they have seen how many there were in class one, two, three and so forth - all by hand- there is no computer....
So in the morning - starting at 8.00!! :-) until lunchtime we are working there - in the afternoon we are going to the orphanage and in between we are still writing proposals and do things for the GVRC ( gender violence ricovery center) so veeeeeeery busy :-) because there are also other things to organise..
next week we are going to have our goodbye dash- with an alive chiken and guacamole and lots of people that we have met. I am really looking foreward to that!!!!!!!!!!

Otherwise I am proudly announcing that my handwashing the clothes has improved a lot since I have been here :-) - which makes me happy...
See ya!

SAFAAARI!!!

WOW! If you are ever in Kenya- don’t even think about missing out on a SAFARI! :-) It is just amazingly overwhelming beautiful awesome!!!!!!!!!!! Even the landscape alone takes all your breath away – and then the animals- I won-t be able to describe and the pictures won-t be able to get it right either, but at least a small idea – I know this sound awfully cheesy (kitschig) – but that’s what it was indeed… It s now four days since I have been back from the trip – but I am still dreaming about it- especially the Amboselli National Park with the Mt. Kilimanjaro in the background- wow!
I also found out that I am very patient when it comes to watch elephants :-) – we were observing them for more than an hour and I could do so for a whole day- they are just so interesting, and they are doing so many different little things, like putting all the dust over them, pissing like a shower, the small ones are running around like crazy sometimes – we named it CES – Crazy Elephant Syndrome- .. and I guess most of us got it at one stage one the Safari as well…:-)
But lets go back to the first park; Masai Mara- I was especially amazed by the enormous sky (seems endless and gives a feeling of freedom because the savanna is pretty flat ;-) ) and the thunderstorms and clouds we have seen- the migration of the wildebeests has almost been over, but still we saw thousands of them walking together – usually joined with the zebras – for me the prettiest animals in the park…We-ve also seen warthogs, buffalos, hartebeest, beautiful giraffes and the first lioness with a stomach as big as it seems to burst – she was just relaxing and some 200 meters away lie a dead wildebeest and the geiers –no idea in English, a bird species – were eating the left overs.. :-).
And of course thousands of gazelle’s very pretty as well!!! There were more and sometimes it felt like you were in the movies of the lion king..
We were spotting the wild out of a matatu ( a van) which we could open up the top- this means we were usually standing (I figured out that standing without trying to hold yourself somewhere was the best snowboarding training ever, thanks to the endless amount of wholes in the “streets”)–
So there we were – after two days we traveled to Hellsgate – and I tell you: Hellsgate was truly HEVEAN!, but the road to get there was HELL indeed.. it was around a six houers drive to get there and we were all very grumpy, carsick and stiff by the end… so to climb around in the volcanic landscape of Hells gate (Tomb Rider Two with Anglina :-). has shot some scenes there) was a very worthwhile relieve. What I thoroughly enjoyed was also having a guide, who really knew! Things about animals, about the history of the park and so forth – because I was craving information by then..
That is because our meant to by guide Mr. David, who has also been the driver of the car – didn-know a thing about the animals- which made me seriously angry sometimes… especially when he lied- like elephant can get up to 300 years old and things like that- maybe it sound stupid but it is seriously frustrating not to get answers whatsoever. He also told half of the group he is not married and the other half, that he is and that he-s got two kids… there are a lot more of examples like that and I was really not happy with this dude- but at least he knew how to drive…
Our cook, Jeffry, we highly admired for his cooking skills – I guess I gained another 3kg… so just to let you know to not be too surprise when you ll see me..:-) It was always a lot of delicious food, though some of us have been so car sick that they couldn-t really eat a lot- poor guys. We also took some alc with us – but we couldn-t finish it also because these bumpy roads just made us feeling drunk all the time and we didn-t feel like drinks at all in the evenings.. ;-).
Back to Hells gate: After our climbing around we went back to our camp which was for this night a little house –very, very, very nice! And we say hippos gracing along the lake nevasha – at night. It is actually the region where they grow millions of roses and other flowers for Valentines Day – for Europe. Because of this business lots of people moved into the region in hope of finding a job – but there wasn-t enough to do so the whole region is pretty unsave and they had to build up security, like special fences along the camps.
The next day we were traveling to Amboselli and just got there to see the sunset- amazing! In the dark we put up our tents, made the fire and admired the extremely shining stars. You were able to see the Scorpion constellation ;-).
This park was pretty desert like and very very dusty – there were even dust tornados! Big ones! There was no water for showers or whatsoever and there were a lot of cheetahs, lions, and all the other animals – to put in one word: this park was WILD. I liked it the most J. With the huge Mt Kilimanjaro in the background.. very very nice- it was the first time we have also seen hyenas and the cheetahs from very close, as well as SIMBA- a male lion (but from pretty far) lots of ostriches as well, they usually tried to mate ;-). I could go on forever – but I guess you heard enough of animal names J - the pictures will be better – I took way too many and deleted an enormous amount – but still I have to many anyway :-)… you-ll see some – just wait :-)

So right now I am in Nairobi – Tom, the French guy flew home yesterday – and I will travel with Duygu – the Turkish girl back to Kisumu to work for one week – then we are going traveling together for two weeks, before she has to go back to Turkey.. so far the plans- I am very excited :-) Kenya is great!

Before excitment...

Vipi mambo? How are you in kiswahili? hey I am excited like a little child... Because the SAFARI starts - tomorrow!.. very early - at 7;00a.m. ! which means by afternoon we'll be in the famous MAsai Mara National Reserve..-1510sq km of open grasslands with all the wildlife - I can't wait! We 'll stay there for two days then moving to the Rift Valley - Hell-s Gate National Park for another two days. Only today I was reading about this park.... "There's visiting national parks, and then there-s experiencing national parks - Hells Gate is an experianced indeed. The park is truely unique, as it allows you to walk or cycle ungided across its breath. The scenery here is dramatic, with rich ochre soils and savannah grasses squeezed between looming cliffs of rusty columnar basalt- it's all aglow in the morning." Lonely Planet. Sounds like the place to be :-). So after this one will head off to the third - also for two days: Amboseli National Park with the famous Mt. Kilimanjaro in the background.. and lot s of elephants - I believe..

Did you know that we re having so much in common with elephants? Very close we are to them actually.. :-) having the same life expectancy, same period of beeing pregnant and they also bury their dead ones as well as they really breast feed their babyes.. not like cows you know...

but I ll stop here- see what else I m gonna learn of these beautiful animals..!!!! There will be some human beeings around as well: Pam and Jen from Canada, Pira and Stefan from Germany, a driver, who is also the guide, and a cook.
we-ll sleep in tents and hopefully have nice food :-) I liked it how the guy from the travel company said: I belive in a three cours menue - a soup and I belive in a main cours and I belive in a dessert. I said: I believe too. :-)
So we ll see what it will be in the end :-).

Las night I was travelling all the way from Kisumu to here and guess where I am staying... At Carol-s place! The kenyan girl who has been a facy at DO - IT!!! Nice. and by the way Harald- the duud from Kenya as well, who has also been to Switzerland left today to Munich for a year! We should definitaly visit him there :-).

So next thursday afternoon I ll be back - and I let you know how it all turned out :-).
I am veeeeeeery sorry (this is especially for Carissa) but I really tried to uplowed pictures -and it takes more than years - so it is just not possible.. I have to do it back home... but I promise I will! :-)

See ya soon

My Kenyan Name

I got a Kenyan name from a lovely women-s group consisting of 53 widows working in Syaya- which is close to where we stay. No, no not as you imagine- most of them are very young women. Sadly enough, we guess most of their husbands died of Aids.
It happened on a Monday afternoon, as I got invited by one of the members of the community fund of Sinaga, which is the kind of bank of this village, to visit this women’s group. There are a lot of groups like this operating in the region. They do merry-go-rounds which means they meet all Mondays giving a certain amount of money and then one of the women gets the amount so she is able to buy cooking gear or whatever. Then the next Monday it is sb else’s turn. The community bank visited them in order to show them how they can make profits from a bank. It was such a nice experience.
We went there with a matatu (these kind of always overloaded cute minibuses) and then on the back of a bike right to a traditional house where they welcomed us with dances and a lot of singing and prayers. Then every single one introduced herself- a long but kind of nice procedure because they did kind of singing in between as well. After this the members of the bank talked to them for one and a half houer in luo- veeeeeery interesting for Tom and me who could only observe the pictures hanging all over the place of the dead husbands…
Then they wanted us to give a speech, to give them some good advice as well. I was totally unprepared for something like that but they kind of liked us anyway and gave me the new name:
Chieng –which means Sun in Luo. Nice! J
So now my proper Luo name is:
Evelin Chieng Okini. Okini means that I am born in the morning.

So then they invited us for dinner, we ate there and did some more dancing after which they showed us the biggest potatoes I have ever seen in my life! I ll try to put a picture on the blog of them…Bye

Big update :-)

15. August 2006:
Hey altogether! How are things back home in Switzerland? I heard that it is already getting colder again over there… very sad for you guys! Here in Kenya it has been pretty cold, raining – I even got the flu for two days!! Everybody thought I got malaria –and actually if you are sick here in any kind of way it is called malaria I found out... but now: the sun is shining, I am happy and healthy and I guess it’s around 25 degrees J!
What I wanted to tell you: I am so sorry for this very late, late update!!! It is not because I haven-t been thinking of you or that I wouldn’t have tried! I wrote about all this amazing things I experienced and then the power went off because of a thunderstorm – I was so annoyed that I change my writing tactic:
Right now I am sitting in the sagam community hospital writing and as soon as I will be in kisumu- our internet place- I’ll try to put it on the blog J before the power shuts down. Like this I hope you’ll find more updates of my life down here…

I feel more and more at home here in Kenya, Sagam. (guess its around time for the sort of feeling since it has been a month now of my stay here) I started to work in an orphanage together with Duygu, the Turkish girl. We are trying to teach the children some English, songs and acrobatics as well as the capitals of Africa J. It is more demanding that I have ever thought with the variation of the ages from one month up to twenty years, although most of them are around six years old.
Right now they have holidays which means that 32 children are permanently there. They especially like songs with dances and a lot of attention…At the beginning I was totally dead after only two hours of playing with them, I have been dreaming about them, especially the disabled ones. There is one very bright girl sitting in a wheel chair and one blind boy that challenge my mind every day. It is also amazing to see how these children take care of one another, especially the disabled ones –but of course they are also fighting with each other – pretty normal human behaviour.
So for the next two weeks I will be in the orphanage every morning at least – in the afternoon we are sometimes working for the GVRC, gender violence recovery center, which is based in the Sagam community hospital. The center is there for people who have been beaten up or raped. It offers free medical treatment and counseling. The people who are working for the center are all volunteers. It opened last year in may, with a start of 16 volunteers receiving special consoling training. Right now there are only three still working – due to a lack of motivation. I am really impressed by these three people, because they don-t earn anything at all – they are just very dedicated to their work.

We are trying to find some partnerships with other NGO’s and some normal companies maybe we ll get sponsored some fanta-s or bread or sweets on a monthely basis for the motivation of the volunteers as well as the victims.

That much to the working – so what I have been doing on the weekends J: the first one after the Aiesec conference in Nairobi I have been traveling with Tom, Duyugu and Henry from Tansania: After the weekend I just looked like in Switzerland: Scars all over my skin and big blisters on my hands and feet..:-) but why? Well well we went to Homo Bay and Mbita- two fishing villages along the beautiful and well known lake Victoria (see Darwin-s nightmare). We ate the best fish and did what makes me thoroughly happy: Exercises in nature as walking up hills-that’s where the scares came from - because there is no way whatsoever to get to the top but loads of all sorts of thorny trees, plants and bushes.. and that I only had slippers on didn-t really help. But it was indeed worthwhile the view J. Then we bicycled along the very stony streets – I had Duyugu on the back of the bike singing wonderful Turkish songs – so we were exploring the region. NICE!
At night we had some lovely encounters with big cockroaches and ants in our beds.. I seriously tried to sleep in my own bed but ended up sharing a bed with Duyugu because these beasties just freak me out – I don-t mind ants.. but cockroaches…

My second weekend in Sagam: We stayed in the region and went out to Kisumu on Saturday- that’s when I tried to update my blog in the thunderstorm. so the weather put us in the mood of movies and we went and saw my first Indian movie ever: Krish. It was an interesting experience by itself…I guess I really have to go go India once!! Beautiful people!!!!!!!! Seriously I didn’t think it would be so entertaining to watch a three hours Indian movie even though there were some weaknesses in the movie… after all the dancing seen we did some ourselves until around six in the morning J very very nice- so Sunday was very typical Kenyan –what we did: RELAXING.

So coming up to the last weekend,: We went to UGANDA!!! From the 11up to the 14th of August….what a blast!!!!!!! J we went with Aiesecers from Nairobi and were very welcomed by Aiesecers of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. Some of them we have met before in the Aiesec conference that took place in Nairobi. Just imagine: sometimes we have been up to 20 people! Getting from place to place, party to party! Kampala is pretty chaotic, rushing, life in every single corner, all around, friendly, green, hilly and again very chaotic – I liked it from the very first second onwards. The city reminds me of LaPAZ in Indonesia, which is my favorite city in the world.
Just the way of moving around is different in Kampala- we always went on the back of motorbikes! Great fun! (and I am glad to be still alive J)
Ugandan food is just amazing, it seems they can-t get enough of bananas there, they have the cooked ones to go with every meal. In the evening you can get grilled chicken and other meat on sticks everywhere along the streets as well as rolled eggs- ROLEX- which is kind of omelettes filled with whatever you like – avocado, tomatoes, onions…delicious!
And they have REAL coffee in Uganda! Very nice J. Actually I learned today that they do grow coffee in Kenya as well but it is exported to Turkey straight away and people here don’t really see a lot of it – at least in the Luo region that I live right now.

On Sunday we went with three Ugandans to Jinja, which is on the way back to Kenya. There is the source of own of the best known rivers in the world: the NILE. So we touched the water in hope of never being sick again J. We took a bout ride and liked to go wild water rafting- but unfortunately we couldn-t organize it that day and we had to go back to work on Monday morning. But just to stay around this beautiful river was AMAZING. Some crazy Ugandans actually bodysurfed through the wildest bits of the river. Pretty scary.

So that s about it to the last weekends – the next one we will stay here in the region. And in two weeks time I will go for the highlight of my stay here in Kenya- on a safari for six days! I thought I am not going for it because it is so expensive, but two girls from Canada and Pira, who grew up in Germany, made a very good deal with a camping company so I am going together with them and some more people I don-t know yet. I am looking very much foreword to this trip!!!! And I am trying to learn some Swahili right know because they won-t understand my Luo.

Why I am going on and on about this Luo? You know it is very important which tribe you are from, I guess especially in rual Kenya. It is kind of bernese, zurichous people relationship. We are mostly communicating with Luo-s and they seriously don t like their neighbor tribe, the Luyas. They go on and on about them like: they don-t know how to cook, have no idea about familyplaning (This story I got told by a Luo guy with 9 kids by the way) they are fucking their daughters and their chickens- that s why they would never eat chicken prepared by Luyas and so on…

Sometimes we are walking in the Luya Land and I have been very amazed how displeased people reacted when we were greeting them in Luo. It is worse than saying nothing at all. Now, that we also learned how to say hello in Luya to them their whole behavior towards us changed utterly. I am just always amazed how a few – or even just ONE- word in a foreign language can change the whole attitude of people, creating such a friendly or hostile environment!
By the way- sometimes after work around five o clock in the afternoon we are heading off to this LUYA land because they are some crazy awesome rocks that would be perfect for climbing and boldering – which tom is enjoying doing, and I unfortunately forgot to take my climbing shoes with me! This was stupid because there even aren’t any shoes of this kind in Kampala and I doubt that I gonna find them in Nairobi.
So I just walk up the hill and enjoy the sunset from up there speaking with the Luya kids who are all over the place and very good free climbers as well!

For now I finish my little report on everyday life. The latest I will try to catch up with after I have seen Simba and co

Akuna matata

Eve-e

ps all the J you find in this - are actually :-) -- :-)!!!

Arrived... :-)

I am finally in AFRICA!!! so exciting and so many impreissions already- since last wednesday... but let me tell ya a few ones :-):
the flight was really enyjoable because I had a window seat and nobody next to me :-) not so enyojable because somebody was pucking three seat rows in front of me... ;-( so after half an h the whole airplain kind of smelled very niiiiiiiiiiice.
(actually for my father: the airplain I was flying with is called hapag lloid - it is a german flight company)
then I got my visa, everything with no proplems and there where three nice aiesec guys waiting for me to bring me into the center of nairobi where we went strait away to get some strong welcome drinks - called lion..and iceberg...and so far..so I got to know a lot of the other aiesec people from nairobi enjoing themselves in what they are usually doing: drinking in a police station!!!! so you have these police guy s around you, the beer is cheap and you feel very safe :-)...nice place I have to say :-)
then this night we went singing caraoke and dancing all night - I tell you: they know how to dance here! impressive! and the energy level is extreeamly high (even for me!!!!!!!!!!!)! they also know how to party...
well then my first day in nairobi was pretty lazy - we were supposed to go to a conferance at 11 o clock - and we were actually leaving at six in the afternoon- which gave me some time to get african shillingi and a new mobile phone number:
+254 72 0959853 :-).
yeees and then we went to my first huge conference until sunday - aiesec people you know how I am feeling right now ;-)! I was actually really suprised how similar it has been to a swiss conferences and even more impressed how punctual (and early!!!!) the sessions did get started! So I learnd a lot and of course partied harder :-)- really I will try to downloud some picuteres... just let me figure out how this works first.. because just before I flew away I bought myself a digital camera ( I am so proud :-)) but still I have to learn a lot when it comes to the handeling of this technical object... :-).
well well
so sunday night we returned to nairobi university- back to the police station :-) and then I went with Duygu (a lovely and exteamly motivated girl from Turkey) and Thomas (a rasta guy from France) on a very bumpy ( there is no street... :-) bustrip to kisumu- where I am right now sitting and writing - in short to the trip: it was another night where we couldn t sleep and we have been here at six in the morning waiting until 8 to get a coffee and some nandasy ( no idea how to spell this but it tastes lake #schlueferliskis# that we are eating during swiss carnival days...yummy good stuff!
kisumu is the 3rd biggest city in kenya, but very relaxed and warmer than nairboi. Here I guess it is around 24 degrees and sunny. In nairobi it was actually pretty cold ( I guess around 16 degrees) and raining!
So here in kisumu I am having internet acess, but the small village rabuor, that we are going to live in right now -won-t have any. It is arond 45 minutes away from here- but also close to the victorya lake, the frontier to uganda. (at the conference I also got to now lovely uganda people that I hope we can visit sometimes! )
so right now I am really excited to get to know rabouor and finding out what excactly it is that I am going to work on... right now Duygu is working on a project concernig rape - and having presentaiton with rollplays in various schools .. but this in a later update - I really have to find out first...
then I have to admit I am sitll not totally uesed to the fact to always see beautiful black people around me all the time - but it doesen-t scare me anymore..yes.. I was a bit scared at first - and I am really impressed by the big lips they are having and also they re funny thicker hair!!! we are just so diffrent - I feel a bit like an alien. but on the other hand once again- caracteristically and from the heart we are so similar..
and I just loved the discussins about G8, poverty and some issues like transplantation, cloning and so far with the african views...Veery interesting!

So far so great - we are heading off right now - I guss I ll be back here in a week to get you some more updates!
thank you for your comments :-) I have seen them!! :-) I love them :-)

excited happy ( the depressive side effects of the malaria prophilaxe didn-t hit me yet :-) hugs and kisses from kenya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eve- E (in swiss german iivi- i ) spoken in a rap way..

My first blog :-)

This blog just got created.. thank you Yavor for your help! - so the purpose is to informe you all about my trip to Africa, Rabuor (it is still in Kenya, right next to the boarder of Uganda, close to the big Vicorialake - with 600 households it is so small that I can't find it on any map.. :-) ) . The flight will be on the 19th of july an I ll be back on the 12th of october. - and yeess right now I am in the nervous, excited state.. :-) Will I understand them? I am already glad to know the name of the dialect they are using over there: Kiswahlili.
so you will be informed... :-)