7/26/10 The 2 Week Countdown

Today is the start of the last two work weeks in Shirati. Melody and I have so much to do and I am definitely hoping that it can be done. We are doing evaluation in Yakina for the rest of this week. Towards the end, we really want to bring the crayons and coloring books to some local primary schools and have a coloring contest of our mosquito net images. We will also have to return to Bwiri the last week we are here to evaluate. Its been challenging trying to figure out if anyone wants to help us start the first girl’s soccer team, we would need a coach and another foreign student to make sure it gets implemented. Finalizing our ride back to Nairobi on August 8^th and booking a hotel in Egypt seem pretty necessary too. Today was the first Monday that we did not head to the weekly market, we were tired today. Melody and I each surveyed 8 households in Yakina and then proceeded to bake peanut butter cookies with Hershey’s kisses on top for Daudy’s birthday tomorrow. At the end of the night we celebrated the birthday and had some people over our hostel. Apparently our hostel is the “nice” place since its one of the few in Shirati to have running water, showers, and electricity most of the time. I know that I was expecting to shower in lake water with limited electricity here, but its really quite nice. Our accommodation fee also covers a cook that makes us all of our meals, laundry service, night watchman, cleaning in the hostel, and Dasani water bottles. So despite the cockroaches, bats, and other critters we room with, the hostel is pretty awesome.