Just arrived!

We came back a day early from mobile because Amit was sick. But we have had an amazing time.
I havn't had time yet to enter blogs, but I am writing in my journal. Last night we sat around the fire to sing together. It was really nice. We've been sleeping/camping in wild life preserves. I've been sleeping pretty well here. Last night we were up in the mountains on a private preserve where Amit's friend is doing research on babooon societies. Zebras were yards from our camp site bf bed, looking at us, but then got spooked. We bouldered this morning to over look the whole valley. We've seen so many different animals: giraffe, zebra, impala, thom thom's, dick dick's (the rest are all harry harry :), waterbuffalo, water buck, rhino (no elephants yet), wort hogs, a leopard (rare to see), baboons, secretary bird, many beautiful birds, including the national bird of uganda- the crowned crane, superb starlings, guinea foul (spotted like my mom's old wreath), little funny rodents , heard hyenas, gekos etc.. Amit is taking very good care of us- he is strict even. But at the same time easy going. Strict about protocols for safety. The roads are so bumpy. I can't wait to tell you more about the tribes people. The kids are hillarious. They all just want to touch you and rub your skin and hair and they say 'howa eew' 'howa eew'(how are you) over and over. I'll tell you more later- but it's pretty amazing to be doing this. We may be going to samburu national park this weekend with a dutch guy and a woman who's also dutch but lives in Nanyuki. Sounds interesting. Amit says this is his favorite place and recommended it above all else. The dutch guy is a 4th year med student who has been doing the mobiles with us (with mpala- the nurse and counselling unit we travel with).

Heading out...

Just doing the last of my to do's today. I'm heading out on the 11:15 redeye to Heathrow. Myself, Rochelle and Michelle will be spending 9 hours killing some time in London, then onto Virgin- for another overnight to Nairobi. From there we'll be meeting Njoroge- the man who's gonna drive us 3 more bumpy hours up to Nanyuki. Sound fun yet?
First thing I'm gonna do:
Lay on the grass next to a tree for 1/2 hour - a little trick I learned from my Chinese Medicine professor for getting over jet lag, by grounding yourself in the new time zone- entraining yourself to the new rhythm of that place.
Keep posted for more tales from the equator.
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