Korando and the weekend

So this will have to be a short blog seeing as the internet keeps disconnecting and it’s starting to get dark out.

I was in Korando this week with Solveig and Hinrika. We were staying at Anne Lauren’s place which was very nice but it took us a little while to get used to the fact that she had bats, rats and cockroaches the size of my hand in her house. But she is doing an incredible job here. She has raised a nursery in her back yard where we spent most our mornings teaching the little ones how to write the letters and numbers.

One afternoon we went to lake Victoria and took a short boat ride and then we carried water in bucket s on our head all the way from the river and home to the house, it was surprisingly hard! Part of our project was to visit old or/and sick people and give them soap and sugar, just some basics. It was quite hard especially when one old lady just burst into tears all of a sudden and started telling us that she had just lost her grand child the other day and started pointing to the floor and saying that she had been there just the other day laughing and smiling. This woman was also HIV positive and had a tumor on both her head and neck which were causing here a lot of pain.

The stories that we heard about the children were also very shocking!  Other wise this weekend has been great. We went on a boat ride on Lake Victoria and got to see hippos popping their heads up right next to the boat. It  was amazing! Then today we went to a Kenyan market and then to a museum and got to see crocodiles and loads of highly venomous snakes, very cool!

I think that’s all for now

Until Next time

-C