I finished my internship and moved out of my homestay this weekend. I know your probably thinking, "but Julia you have like 3 months left in Kenya, what are you going to do?"
I call the last 3 months phase one. I did my internship and homestay the last 2 and half months. I have a 3o something page rough(very rough) draft for my family org course. Now I'm diving into my Global Research Project. Since my homestay was tied to my internship (i was living with that family because i was working at Sidai) I decided to move back to Nkita's, plus I don't have too long before I go to the village. I stayed with Nkita my first 3 weeks in Kenya. I love Nkita's and she's incredibly kind. Plus her house is amazing with running water, clean drinking water, a refrigerator; you know all the luxuries :) For the next three weeks I'm going to be staying there and researching orphanages. I'm researching how orphanages are preparing their youth for reintegration once they exit orphanage care. I'm excited to get out and visit different children's homes and orphanages. I loved my internship, but I really missed being out in the community.
I'm planning on traveling for Christmas. In hopes that I can distract myself from homesickness and all that. I'll either be in the Congo or in Nakuru visiting friends.
After Christmas I'm headed to the village! I'm going to be living with my Friend's family in a village near Kisumu (super close to lake victoria). I'll be doing my community life course there. After five weeks, I'm back to Nairobi for a week then home..it is going to go by so quick. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'm falling in love with this place and two half months seems so short.
This friday was graduation at Sidai. It was more of a celebration for school ending. (in Kenya the school year/term ends in December) It was really funny...they dressed the kids up in graduation robes including caps and we had cake and biscuits and sweets. They slaughtered a sheep for lunch and there was so much food! It was neat, because it ended up being more of a community celebration. We held the first part of the party in the slum (sidai's original location) and got to show the community how well Sidai kids are doing. Then we moved the celebration back to Sidai later.
I hope you all had a very happy thanksgiving! It's so strange to be completely removed from all the holiday fun and crazyness.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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So you changed your research from the teen pregnancy? But your new one sounds awesome! The way you laid out your next 3 months makes it seem like you'll be home in no time! love you!
i miss you! dude, it's crazy how at the beginning of your glt it's like, "whoa, i have so much time to do this, this, and this." and time seems to span on forever. then, half way through, everything is going WAY too fast and you wish you could stop it.
haha ... can you tell i miss belize?
anyway, i get home from finals on wednesday morning, the 16th of december. so let me know when you are free -- i wanna skype with you!! love love love!
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