Sorry I have not updated in a while, I have actually been pretty busy. On Friday last week I spent the entire day with a family near my home. I help them "smear" their new house. Smearing is when you take much (sometimes mixed with cow dung) and literally smear it against the walls. I was a natural..... or so they told me! It was really fun, it was like being in a homestay all over again... only BETTER!  Saturday was a bust, was supposed to teach some groups, but no one showed up. 
Sunday Kibaibai and I went to visit my friend Lindsay in Kakamega.  Yep I brought the pup with me, only he is about the size of a full grown DOG! Seriously he is huge, so traveling on a matatu (those mini vans over stuffed with people) was not an easy task, but we did survive!
 She was given a room at her dispencary and she is turning it into a community resource room. So I went to help her paint. She wanted the world map painted on one wall, so we began to sketch it. Well she wanted it 5 times bigger than the picture we had, so we had to multiply all the measurements by 5. Those of you who know me, know math is NOT my strong suit..... uh hello social worker.... So after completed the entire continent of Africa, Lindsay says.. "that looks small compared to South America" and in fact, it was 12 cm to small. So after wasting all that time drawing it, Lindsay had to go back and re draw..... to be fair, I tried to tell her drawing free hand was not my best area, and especially when you add math to that. But all turned out fine, we didn't finish, so I will be going back to help some more. 
Next week I am going to visit Andrea at her site, she is having an event to celebrate, International Womens Day. It will be a few of us health volunteers, so I know it will be a good time!

Now that I'm reading back through this, I know it seems that I am not doing much at my site. Well the truth is.... I am but just not large scale as I had hoped. With JOYWO I already have groups set up for me, and my main job here is to teach all of them about health and sanitation. Well there are over 400 groups and we are still growing, so I definitely have my work cut out for me. In my community, it is hard to find things to do. I have recently come in contact with our local AIDS resource center, so I am going to be volunteering there more often. And as you already know I started a women's exercise group. We meet on Tuesdays, at the moment I have about 4 women who usually come every week. So I just wanted you to know, I am actually doing work and not just traveling all of the time!