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[teaonthestairs]

On the low point of my week last week, when I was feeling like I wasn't of any use here in Kenya at all and I wasn't using this chance I have to help the kids I'm working with, I got an email from live journal. My paid account expired. Thanks LJ, you made my week! 

But then the next day I had a fantastic time at the orphanage and school. I think it was because on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last week I spent most of the day washing dishes, washing clothes and cooking - which was helpful in the moment but not really in the long run. On Thursday I spent all day teaching the nursery and grade 1 kids English and Maths. They are so cute! I just want to take them all home with me! I don't think I should be teaching them Maths though - I forgot what Devision was the other day! Actually English either - I mean LOOK at my spelling!

Anyhow, I'm loving it here in Mombasa - well I'm loving parts of it. I'm despretely homesick though and I just want to so somewhere where I don't stand out in a crowd! I like blending in but its impossible to do it here in Kenya.

The weather is hot and humid, but sometimes I can be getting burnt but rained upon at the same time and that is way beyond cool. Freaky weather is my favourite thing! Working all day in the hot sun is exhusting though, if I can I try and confine myself to indoors - either in the rundown old ruin that they use as a school or in the kitchen with Ester the cook, who is by far my favourite person, barring the other volunteers, that I have met in Kenya. She is so nice and jolly and she teases me and is teaching me to cook all these yum things. When I get back to Melbourne I am so taking a cooking course, I want to learn how to cook EVERYTHING not just things I'm farmilar with!

It's great living in the volunteer house, there is 9 other volunteers as well - its so weird living with boys - do boys always walk around half naked? They all have great accents and its so nice having people to talk to that are going through the same experince I am! I spent over two hours today talking with 3 other girls - we basically bitched about i-to-i, which is the company that organised the volunteer experience. I would so NOT recommended it to other people wishing to volunteer - do it with someone else, we have had so many problems and concerns and they aren't getting addressed! Its so frustrating - we are trying to help our projects but we can't access the money - money that was promised we could access and that is actually money that we paid!  - so that we can help these places. Like at my project we are trying to get them running water - but we have to wait 6 months before the application will go through! no one will be here, that is here now, in 6 months! its the stupidest, most annoying and frustrating thing ever!

Gosh! Sorry is makes me so angry! Anyhow besides all the problems we are having I'm having fun, I'm just hoping time flys by though. I want to be on my way to Turkey!! 6 more weeks! I love the kids I work with but its so hard and different and confronting and hot and insane and frustrating here. I want to be back in my comfort zone!