For the past week I have been in In service Training. This is where Peace Corps gets everyone from my training group together to continue teaching us skills that can help us to improve our work in our communities. We have learned how to build better pit latrines, inexpensive ways to treat water, how to make sack and nutrition gardens, and how to be better educators. It's a lot to fit in to 2 weeks. It's been great to see everyone, some people I haven't seen since we swore in in August! On Saturday and Sunday we had free time and were allowed to travel into Nairobi. On Saturday we did some shopping. It's always such a culture shock when we go to the malls. Lindsay and I were able to buy more materials to make jewelry. We had sushi for lunch, it was super fancy and super delicious. Then to end the day we got to see Twilight: Breaking Dawn, and most of you already know my thoughts on that topic........ disappointment. On Sunday we had an Awesome day! We started our day by going to the Animal Orphanage at the Kenyan Wildlife service. We pet a baby giraffe, fed an ostrich and got groomed by monkeys. Then we went to another mall and waited in line for an hour to eat at the only KFC in Kenya. Totally worth it! An hour is worth the wait for a little taste of home. Then we ended our day with a 2 for 1 happy hour at a local brewery. Perfect day! We were allowed to be American tourist for the weekend and didn't have to worry about all eyes focused on us.
Saturday we return to our sites and back to reality. I am definitely ready to get back to Kibaibai and back to my site. This training has helped me think of some really great ideas to work into my community, so we will see how it goes!
 |
| This monkey and several others got out of their cage (the baboon in the back ground was pretty pissed) The worker put peanuts in our hair so the monkeys would pick them out of our hair. |
No comments:
Post a Comment