What's goin on?

I don't have a lot of time to be in town this weekend (where I can get internet), but I wanted to throw a couple little updates on here.

So, Rex almost ate of the new, young chickens William bought for the farm.  She wasn't hungry actually, she was stuffed with ugali, but she is super playful.  She even taunts cows while we walk to school, and I can only facepalm and apologize to the passing shepherds.  Thankfully she isn't actually very aggressive, just hyper-energetic due to being 8 months old or so.  Go figure.  So I'm taking her to school now, trying to both fatten her up from school lunch leftovers and keep her away from my poor chickens that can't keep up with her.  There is another dog at school that hangs around the kitchen, and me and her are good friends;  it's easy to befriend dogs in a country where everyone treats them like vicious beasts most of the time.  The first time I brought Rex to school last week, they nearly started fighting - they both thought they were protecting me from the other!  After some time, and a little strong-arming, they are tolerating each other now.

No lion updates, sorry.  When I went to Hell's Gate National Park a few weeks back, there were no predators so we could walk around the place and see zebras, giraffes and all that good stuff up close.  The new animal for the month of April was the Hippopotamus!  Haven't seen those before, especially so close up when we went boating on Lake Naivasha.  Good stuff.

My students are super stoked about all the new changes I've promised.  More experiments, soccer practice every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, a party if they do well at one of the competitions at the end of term, integrating grassroots soccer into life skills, and I'm opening up my house for visitors since we don't have an office for guidance and counselling as of yet.  At the end of my first HIV/AIDS education session for my Form 2s, one of my students quietly asked me if he could have my phone number to talk more about it.  I'd rather not start a precedent of handing out my number to students, but I invited to come to my home over the weekend to talk.  I'm definitely going to make an effort for the students to have a "safe place" to talk about things they don't feel comfortable talking about to friends and family normally.

I learned how to make "good" beans and rice by lightly frying the beans with tomato, onion, and green pepper!  That plus my regular pb+oatmeal will decrease my chances of starving to death due to pickiness/laziness : )  Seriously though, if I couldn't find peanut butter, I would probably be in trouble.

Next weekend I'll put up a real post with some answers to common questions I've gotten from family n friends at home.  What is the average Kenyan like, what kind of things do they have in their houses, stuff like that.

I'll post some pics and some more of whats goin on when I celebrate my birthday with Amber next week, since she has internet at home now.  I'll be 23 this friday!  Woo!  Of course, with my beard, Kenyans think I'm in my late thirties haha.  Nobody has beards here...