Happy Halloween!

Hello All,

It’s Friday afternoon and Em and I just finished getting our hair braided before we go to the Masai Mara – this will help us from needing to wash our hair. Em looks great, sort of Middle Eastern and I look like a white Rastafarian. My hair hasn’t been this long over 10 years!

We are headed to Utalii college in a mintute to speak with a professor before we start our voluteer work. He’s going to discuss with us some health and conservation topics which will help us when we speak with the Masai people.

The weather here has been really nice, not too hot so far. I’ve only gotten one mosquito bite and Em’s in the clear so far :)

We rode our first Matatu (bus) yesterday. It was hot pink and called “Tranquilizer”. Inside there was rap blasting I mean blasting and they had a tv playing the video. It was crazy – i just kept laughing the whole time. We headed to a city market which is kind of touristy and we got HOUNDED by people wanting us to buy everything. We didn’t last long, it sort of felt like a cheap flea market anyway, nothing much looked authentic.

Everyone in Kenya is praying for Obama to win the election. There is probably 5 stories a day in the local paper talking about the election its crazy. I should have studied my history books, because everyone is asking us so many questions. They can’t believe it when we tell them that we already voted, they said, Kenya could never have pre-voting because of corruption. I’m glad I voted for Obama, I think it’s helping Em and I and certainly not hurting us :)

Well, I gotta run. I’ll be in touch probably in two weeks. Sorry this post is so choppy.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Love you all!