http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=egZToiVIDvM&feature=endscreen Video: Travelling through the region of Kenya where I lived, to a Swahili music soundtrack. This video is of driving from Nairobi towards the Kajiado province, in which Kitengela lies. It begins on the Nairobi to Mombasa highway, then takes a turning off south towards Athi River. This road is very similar to the […]
Just before sunset yesterday I left my hotel in Nkrumah Road, Mombasa. I took a tuktuk to the station, booked in and got onto the train. I tried to read my book during the one and a half hour wait that followed, as the train sat in the station, but it was far too hot […]
Four days ago I left Kitengela behind me, and set off alone into the big wide world. I took the matatu to Nairobi, but having caught it halfway along the road in Kitengela I didn’t realise it wasn’t from the matatu stand in town, but had come on a different route. This route ended up […]
So I have arrived in Kenya, and met my lovely host family. I’m living in Kitengela, a small, rapidly growing town about 30km (19 miles) south of Nairobi. Today was my first day at school. It was overwhelming meeting the kids as they all attached themselves to me and took me off to classrooms 1-4 […]