16th July

Habari mchana (Good afternoon!)

My first thought this morning was that I don't think I could ever get bored of waking up to these views! Pretty sure I'm not on my own on that one either!!

Anyway, today we drove about 45 minutes along the dirt road to Sasenyi Primary School where we had our project orientation and we were digging foundations and moving sand ready for laying a concrete floor for the new classroom. As it is so far from camp, we didn't go back for lunch, instead the staff delivered hot food to us...also great news for those on washing up duty today as they escaped the lunchtime wash up!

After lunch 6 or 7 local children came and joined us. They helped move the sand and sang songs with us.

It is much warmer in Kenya than it was in Moshi - mainly as Moshi is in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru - but it still isn't exactly scorching!

Also, yesterday afternoon we were taken to meet a Masai tribe which was incredibly interesting - they danced for us and had us join in, and dressed some of us in their traditional clothing. They also showed us how to start a fire and let us have a go, and showed us around a Masai home - tiny shacks generally for 2 people built out of cow dung and wood, with a cow skin roof.

Onto tomorrow, in the morning we will be going into the local community and will be deworming livestock, then in the afternoon we will be constructing elephant deterrent fences.

Will update again tomorrow.

Kwaheri!