Kenya
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Wednesday, 16 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
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Wednesday, 16 Dec 2009 | Views [731]
Last Thursday after the long-awaited end to my working day arrived, I bounced home in the 118 matatu to grab my things; I was going to Mombasa for the weekend! After meeting the other interns at the bus stop, we clambered aboard for our overnight trip ... Read more >
Thursday, 10 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
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Thursday, 10 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
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So I was thinking, there are all the fun adventures that you have when you are travelling, but what about the mundane, the everyday? The things that become so much habit you don't even think to mention them when people ask you about your experiences? ... Read more >
Tuesday, 8 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 7 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 7 Dec 2009 | Views [1158] | Comments [1]
Last Thursday 4 Dec I accompanied a friend Michaela to the closing day for the school where she has been teaching for the past three months, located in the Mathare slum. Mathare - slightly smaller than Kibera but still home to over 500,000 people - is ... Read more >
Wednesday, 2 Dec 2009 | Photo Gallery
AIESEC Conference
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Wednesday, 2 Dec 2009 | Views [940] | Comments [1]
It started with a mad scramble, a flustered, exhausted sprint through the early morning Nairobi streets, pack swinging on my back, arms flailing, my host mother Victoria calling out as she ran behind me. A not entirely unusual (for Nairobi) string ... Read more >
Tuesday, 24 Nov 2009 | Photo Gallery
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Tuesday, 24 Nov 2009 | Photo Gallery
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My first weekend in Nairobi city lived up to expectations. On Friday night I headed out to Simmers, an infamous Congolese dance parlour where patrons consume Tusky’s (good local Kenyan beer) by the schooner (the beers here are sold in 500ml bottles ... Read more >
Friday, 20 Nov 2009 | Photo Gallery
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Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 | Views [641] | Comments [1]
Yesterday I went and visited the school where David, Phillip and Julia (three other AIESEC interns) are teaching in the Kibera slum, the largest slum in Africa. It was first established in 1918 to house Nubian refugees from Uganda, but over the years ... Read more >
Tuesday, 17 Nov 2009 | Photo Gallery
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Well I have now experienced one of Kenya’s main drawcards: the safari. Last weekend we took a trip into the African wilderness and visited the Masai Mara, a national park in Western Kenya famous for hosting the annual wildebeast migration from Tanzania ... Read more >
Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 | Photo Gallery
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Well I've been in Kenya two days and it feels like a year! The AIESEC students at The University of Nairobi have been so welcoming that I already feel at home in Kenya. I flew into Nairobi Monday lunchtime, after a 34 hour plane adventure involving ... Read more >