It's Sunday morning and therefore once again an urgent time for me to describe my life in Kenya. Since Wednesday I am back in the Zebra. Before that I was a week in Kisii at Laura, Anne, Ben and Luke, four other German volunteers to visit. They live in a family with four host sisters who love to cook and especially pretty well and varied!
landscape of my trip was to offer an incredible amount of Kisii. Just to travel by bus or even the matatu back were fascinating. Vast areas of savannah with scattered herds of cattle over the mountains of the Rift Valley, with an incredible view to the jungle-like green areas around Kisii everything was there. For me was overwhelming, especially the differences between the Zebra Children's Village and Kisii. Where on this great land is at times simply no house and no big tree, there are anywhere near Kisii trees and houses. Here are the rather yellow-green areas on the road, especially cows, near Kisii is every little piece of land for growing corn, sugar cane, bananas, and used mainly tea. Everything is incredibly green and the red earth ... that is, however, that it almost raining every day and shoes and pants are always dirty. S just all a bit wetter and with 1700m to still been higher than here. For me, the real altitude training! Not only because the air is a bit thin, no Kisii seems to exist only as a mountain! Will get from one place to another, you have guaranteed even down a hill and then back to the other side up. The same was true when we wanted to project the two girls. You work in an orphanage but had compared to the Zebra Children's Village for me, very small. No wonder ... they are finally in the middle of a city and I am here pretty far out. Also I have the project The boys viewed a special school. For me, of course, incredibly interesting, however, were the children through the holidays, unfortunately, not there.
From Kisii from there was then a few more trips: once directly to Lake Victoria to Kisumu and then by the Tabaka soapstone mines. In Kisumu, we have mainly seen the city and at the Green Garden, a German restaurant, eat! Tabaka and I had to really pull myself together to not buy all the shops are empty: the selection of beautiful figurines, plates, stays, etc. soapstone was huge.
And then there was still a special day. I was extra to Kisii operated so that I am on 10 December there was ... on my birthday I did not want to finally be alone in the Zebra Children's Village. Especially in Kenya Birthdays have absolutely no meaning, and many Kenyans do not even know when it's your birthday. Although I did not tell the volunteer that it's my birthday, they had of course found out and I even bought a birthday cake: Add) was that for the day when I had my birthday in the family an African-German Bad key party was planned. So I had a wonderful birthday with all that that implies.
Finally, even a small word list (new) experiences about my trip to Kisii: without banana trees, tea plantations, roads, potholes, Enge, chicken, game nights, potato salad, fried potatoes, jello, fruit salad, meat, feet wet, brown-red feet, soap stones, post, different mentality, GREEN, trees, bio-gas, sugar cane, fish, Pikipiki (motorcycle) ride, acting, Cats stadium with track, mud ...
And here those events:
