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A week full of new impressions, difficulties, new culture. Franky is not cooping.
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Week 1 |
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WOUW I'm in Kenya!!! How strange!I arrive in the Capital Nairobi without any problems, and who is waiting for me....Danielle! When we try to contact the people who suppose to pick us up from the airport, thought i would arrive 2 hours later. So Danielle and I had a couple of hours to tell our stories. |
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After a couple of hours my pick-up arrived. He was taken us to Thika, 1 hour drive. I was trying to realise, ...I'm in Kenya!!! The first couple of days I couldn't see a lot, My Eye was still infected and a lot of sunshine irritated my eyes. But what I was seeing was a lot of poorness. The roads are in a really bad state, the streets, shops, it's very smelly. In some sort of way I was sure I would be comfortable here. Because this atmosphere comes together with a really easy going life style. You see on a building site 1 person working and 5 are just watching. And you see this every where, where people "work". |
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I tell you a litle bit about where I'm living and doing. I live in a children's home. Here we take care of streetchildren, children without parents, offended by their parents, HIV infected. In the house we live with 11 children, Beatrice the youngest baby 9 months old and the oldest is James, 18 Years.
In the house work at this moment 3 proffesionals, Elisabeth taking care of the washing and the youngest children, Jane is doing the cooking and Nelson trying to arrange a lot of other businesses. At this moment there 4 Dutch Volunteers also located in the house, Harold, Danielle, Peter and me. We try to support the proffesionals and doing different project in the neighbourhood. For example this week Harold and I started to paint a few classrooms in the primary school next door. Before - After |
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In this very exciting first week I've been doing some painting in the St Patricks Primary School, meeting the people who live in the house, playing a bit with the children and helping a little bit in the household. This week I have found it a bit difficult to coop with this complete new lifestyle, culture, food and complete different way of working. When I'm working I'm trying to find a most efficient way to work. But here people and equipment is like 10 years behind. Things go very slowly, everyhing is done manualy. Hygiene is not an issue here. And people are not really open to learn new things. You can tell them 20 times how it would work more efficient, but when you turn your back, they find there own way of working more safe. (It looks a little bit like myself :-) |
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