More pics of my beautiful country

The little spring is a source of water for very many people and its from the roots of the trees around. The other pictures were taken in Makueni district while I was out doing field work. :-)

Elephant skull

Found inside a forest!! Nice

Sunset

Check this out. Sunset in Makueni taken from a moving vehicle. Constantly in awe of God's creation.

Salt from the sea

Kinda cool how they get salt from the sea. Well it's actually very basic science, evaporation!! simple as that.

Mt Kilimanjaro

One day I will hike up this mountain.. Who is with me??

Death of the 'Matatu'

So I haven''t blogged in a few months and too much has happened. I feel like I should have my own show. For the past two months, I was working out in the 'field' (rural Kenya) and the experiences were unforgettable. From snakes, to witch doctors, wasps to getting stuck, you name it, we experienced it. I will be going again in a week and I will let you know about those experiences. From previous posts you know that I take a 'matatu' to work and it has got to be the WORST mode of transportation ever and ran by the most ignorant individuals on the planet. This morning, there was so much traffic on the roads because of impatient drivers who think that their duties are more important than everyone else's. They completely blocked the roads until no vehicles could move. We were in a traffic gridlock for about an hour with no policemen in sight. Wait, no that is a lie, a policeman drove by the side of the road and was yelling at the matatu drivers for blocking the road. He however, did not try to ease the situation. In all the commotion, the matatu I was in got bumped by a school bus and again nothing was done. As we went on, the conductor got impatient and told everyone to get out so that he could go back. All the passengers refused and the conductor retaliated by locking everyone inside the van and ordering the driver to turn the vehicle. All hell broke loose at that point. Long story short, the conductor was assaulted and we got to our destination 2 hours later. Ughh its a jungle out here.

Personal space pleasee..

I currently use public transportation (matatus) to go to and from work. Matatus are shuttles that should carry a maximum of 14 passangers, really they should carry 13 and plus the conductor the total should be 14 pple, minus the driver. I had just boarded thë "matatu" and had comfortably sat at the back row where there is only room for 3. A man who was extremely cockeyed walks in and looks at me (I think) gesturing for me to move. I ignore the man because there really isnt anywhere for me to go. This nucca just decides to plop himself on an invisible seat next to me, hence sitting on my lap. Did I mention his body odor was that of sh*t!!!!! Yeessss it was. This is not a figure of speech, he did really smell like he had just gone number 2 on himself. He then goes on to make himself comfortable by shimmying himself, like WTF!! seriously.. effin Kenyans men, then puts on a face like he really has a seat, forgetting he is on my lap. At that point, I was looking for Ashton Kutcher to jump out with the hidden cameras and tell me im being punkd because the nucca had to be kidding. Eventually I couldnt take it and had to ask him to get up off of me. Yaayyyy me for being nice and not causing a raucus up in there. Seriously though, watever happened to personal space.. SERIOUSLY!!!!