I'm back in Loitokitok after 2 weeks away and although I had a great time, I really missed my family and waking up to Mt. Kilimanjaro. It was an awesome trip though and I learned a lot!
First we went to Teveta, about 2 hours towards the coast from Loitokitok. We stayed in a super nice hotel and everyone got fat all over again off of the amazing food they fed us. There was even a bar/dance club attached to the hotel, so every night I danced my booty off! It was the first time Peace Corps actually somewhat spoiled us and it felt great! The workshop was suppose to be about HIV/AIDs although we didn't really learn much at all about that. We did learn other important lessons however.
A guy came and talked to us about his life struggle with drugs. He said that sometimes up to 12 people will share a drug needle in the slums and many addicts die of HIV because of this. It was such an intense and emotional story. He went from stealing from his own mother, to being clean and sober for 10 years now and having 4 beautiful healthy children. One story he told us that I found particularly touching was about an addict he knew named Susie. Susie was addicted to heroine and she smoked while she was pregnant. So when Susie has her child, the baby was born addicted as well. Susie would hold the baby in her arms and smoke heroine at the same time and then fall asleep and burn the baby's face. The baby only lived a year. When they raised the money for the funeral, Susie took off with it. A few years later she also died of HIV. Shows you what drugs can do, all motherly instincts out the door. So sad.
We also went to a domestic violence clinic. It was started by some women who found that there were no resources for women suffering from violence in the home. In Kenyan culture, it is still somewhat acceptable to beat your wife. A wife/woman is a commodity here and is the property of their husbands/fathers so gender roles are still very much in tact. This clinic offered post violence treatment as well as counseling for these women.
Next, we went to an HIV/AIDS garden run by people living with the virus. A healthy diet is very important for people living with HIV because their immune systems are so weak. They showed us how to plant various herbs in sacks and also how to plant banana trees. We also saw a fish farm where they raise fish to sell in the local markets. They showed us how they were fed and fished and even gave us some! Fish is a luxury food here.
My favorite thing we did was watch cultural dancing, singing and acting. I sat in the front row so they pulled me up to dance at least 5 times which was really fun! I don't think any of them were wearing deodorant, but none the less I had a great time. The singing was so beautiful too and they sang about issues such as HIV and Malaria. The acting group did a play about early marriages and although it was entirely in Kiswahili, I understood most of it I think.
Well Teveta finally came to an end and we split up into groups of 5 to go visit a current PCV at their site and see what life will be like after training. I went to visit "super volunteer" Louis Vayo in Maungu, a small truck stop town about 3 hours west of Mombasa. I say "super volunteer" because he has done so much in his community and is so integrated! He's like fluent in Kiswahili! He taught a woman's group a beading class entirely in the local language! He's started a ping pong club at the local high school and we went to visit and played the kids. Well...they kicked out butts big time! ha! We visited the NGO in his town that is one of the first organizations to sell carbon credits internationally. They are called Wildlife Works if you want to look them up and are doing some amazing things. They showed us how they are producing more sustainable coal for cooking and have a tree farm too! They also have a garment factory that employs a large percentage of the area. Michelle Obama was recently seen in one of their shirts. I believe they are called lalaso if you want to look them up too. Our last day there, Louis showed us how to make reusable sanitary pads. This is very important because most girls don't have the money to buy sanitary products so they will miss school when they are on their periods. But these reuseable pads make it possible for them to make the napkins themselves and still remain in school. It's defiantly something I'd like to take up in my site.
Finally, we went to Mombasa for one night. I got to swim in the Indian Ocean for the first time since South Africa and it was amazing! We shopped around and I ate pizza!!! But here comes the bad part...I got sick. Like bad sick. I couldn't fully enjoy Mombasa because I was throwing up all night in my hotel. The next day we made the 7 hour bus ride back to Loitokitok and I was still sick. I missed school the next day to recover, but it was nice to be home at least. My mama was so worried about me she made another volunteer come check on me. It's nice to know I'm cared about so much when I'm so far from home. Today I'm all better though and finally got to the internet cafe to update you all. My mama is taking me to the tailor today to get a dress made because I bought some really beautiful fabric in Taveta.
That's all for now! Keep emailing me! I will get back to you as soon as I can, but I love reading them. Thank you for all the support and I miss you all more than you can imagine!
Friday, July 22, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Eat your vitamins kids!
I’m sitting here after taking my practice LPI. That is the test I have to pass in order to be sworn in as a PCV. I’m actually feeling pretty confident about it. So confident in fact that I went to lunch today and ordered in Kiswahili! I can even go to the post office and mail a letter in the local language too! I can’t believe I’ve only been learning for 4 weeks. It feels really good to feel like I can at least somewhat communicate with the people here. I mean, they wall want to speak English with me anyway, but I think I gain a little more respect when I show I can speak their language. Plus, they don’t rip me off as much haha!
Friday we went to a “mobile clinic”. It is an event in a town where community health volunteers come together to do massive nutrition clinics. There were the cutest kids there. We weighed the babies, took their arm circumference and provided them with deworming pills and vitamin A supplements. It was really great to do something so hands on.
Another awesome thing that has happened is that we found a really fun hike in Loitokitok. Well it’s nothing too strenuous, but at the end there is a waterfall! There are all these vines that climb up the wall so we’ve been doing a little climbing ourselves. There is a cave half way up that you can climb up to and sit in. Makes me think of my Uncle Steve and our Schneider Family Climb Nights back in Berkeley.
Other than that, not much is new. I’ll be leaving Loitokitok tomorrow for 9 days. For three days we are on a retreat with all of the volunteers to learn about HIV/AIDs and then the rest of the time we all split off into groups and go visit current PCVs in the field. I am not traveling too far from Loitokitok, but it will feel good to get out and do something different either way.
That’s all for now! Thanks for the emails! Keep em coming! Oh and special thanks to Sean for the package! It made my day! Now I can play with a real soccer ball and not a crumbled up piece of paper! Haha!
Friday we went to a “mobile clinic”. It is an event in a town where community health volunteers come together to do massive nutrition clinics. There were the cutest kids there. We weighed the babies, took their arm circumference and provided them with deworming pills and vitamin A supplements. It was really great to do something so hands on.
Another awesome thing that has happened is that we found a really fun hike in Loitokitok. Well it’s nothing too strenuous, but at the end there is a waterfall! There are all these vines that climb up the wall so we’ve been doing a little climbing ourselves. There is a cave half way up that you can climb up to and sit in. Makes me think of my Uncle Steve and our Schneider Family Climb Nights back in Berkeley.
Other than that, not much is new. I’ll be leaving Loitokitok tomorrow for 9 days. For three days we are on a retreat with all of the volunteers to learn about HIV/AIDs and then the rest of the time we all split off into groups and go visit current PCVs in the field. I am not traveling too far from Loitokitok, but it will feel good to get out and do something different either way.
That’s all for now! Thanks for the emails! Keep em coming! Oh and special thanks to Sean for the package! It made my day! Now I can play with a real soccer ball and not a crumbled up piece of paper! Haha!
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Site Announcement
It’s been awhile since I’ve had the time to sit down and write a blog. I have to go to the cyber café and pay to get on the internet so after a long week of classes, it’s the last thing I really feel like doing. I have a lot to update on though so I finally kicked myself in the ass and got to updating this blog thingy of mine. But I don't think I'll be able to load pictures for quite sometime just due to lack of technology.
I’m really into the flow of things here. Everything is basically a routine. I get up, take my bucket bath, go to language for 4 hours, then classes for the rest of the day on health, or I meet with my project partner. I have partnered with a theater and drama youth group that does plays in secondary schools about the importance of abstinence (they call it to “chill”), and HIV/AIDs awareness. It’s defiantly different to say the least to work with people here. Dance and theater is conducted very different than I am use to and at times it can be frustrating to try to explain things to one another. But all in all, it’s really nice to work with people around my age on an issue that I am so passionate about.
Our last few weeks we have been doing a lot of nutrition training as well. I was able to go to a nearby village called Rombos where we hiked through the farmland and picked food straight from the crop. It was so beautiful and really awesome to be eating something that was completely organic. Everything I eat here is so fresh, I don’t think I’ll ever use a freezer again when I get back to America. Even the milk I drink is delivered by a milkman every night! I mean it’s no Fat Free, but at least I’m getting my calcium intake haha!
My biggest announcement is that I have been assigned my site. In about 6 weeks I’ll leave Loitokitok for a village called Matayos near the town of Busia. It is in the Western providence right on the boarder with Uganda. From what I know so far I will be living on a hospital compound working mainly in the malaria sector. I don’t have much experience about Malaria except that I take medication everyday that makes me have crazy dreams haha! But I will learn and I’m excited to do a lot of secondary projects. I’m hoping that I can get involved in girls sports, especially soccer. Anyway, I encourage you to all look it up on a map and think of me ha!
This last weekend was 4th of July and all of the volunteers got together and had a retreat just a walk out of the main village here. It was good to go somewhere and be able to wear tank tops and not be thought of as a prostitute haha! We drank beer and had a bond fire too! I brought pop-its from America and we all threw them around which was fun. It was a pretty crazy party since most of us don’t drink whatsoever here and finally had some of our first African beers. Plus the elevation really got us drunk fast too! I’ll be recovering all week.
Anyway, that’s about it! I miss you all so much and think of you often! Thank you to all of those who have emailed me, it really means a lot. To those of you who haven’t responded to my email…what the f**k?! Don’t you know I’m in Africa, yo?! Haha! Hope all is well back home and looking forward to more updates from the states!
I’m really into the flow of things here. Everything is basically a routine. I get up, take my bucket bath, go to language for 4 hours, then classes for the rest of the day on health, or I meet with my project partner. I have partnered with a theater and drama youth group that does plays in secondary schools about the importance of abstinence (they call it to “chill”), and HIV/AIDs awareness. It’s defiantly different to say the least to work with people here. Dance and theater is conducted very different than I am use to and at times it can be frustrating to try to explain things to one another. But all in all, it’s really nice to work with people around my age on an issue that I am so passionate about.
Our last few weeks we have been doing a lot of nutrition training as well. I was able to go to a nearby village called Rombos where we hiked through the farmland and picked food straight from the crop. It was so beautiful and really awesome to be eating something that was completely organic. Everything I eat here is so fresh, I don’t think I’ll ever use a freezer again when I get back to America. Even the milk I drink is delivered by a milkman every night! I mean it’s no Fat Free, but at least I’m getting my calcium intake haha!
My biggest announcement is that I have been assigned my site. In about 6 weeks I’ll leave Loitokitok for a village called Matayos near the town of Busia. It is in the Western providence right on the boarder with Uganda. From what I know so far I will be living on a hospital compound working mainly in the malaria sector. I don’t have much experience about Malaria except that I take medication everyday that makes me have crazy dreams haha! But I will learn and I’m excited to do a lot of secondary projects. I’m hoping that I can get involved in girls sports, especially soccer. Anyway, I encourage you to all look it up on a map and think of me ha!
This last weekend was 4th of July and all of the volunteers got together and had a retreat just a walk out of the main village here. It was good to go somewhere and be able to wear tank tops and not be thought of as a prostitute haha! We drank beer and had a bond fire too! I brought pop-its from America and we all threw them around which was fun. It was a pretty crazy party since most of us don’t drink whatsoever here and finally had some of our first African beers. Plus the elevation really got us drunk fast too! I’ll be recovering all week.
Anyway, that’s about it! I miss you all so much and think of you often! Thank you to all of those who have emailed me, it really means a lot. To those of you who haven’t responded to my email…what the f**k?! Don’t you know I’m in Africa, yo?! Haha! Hope all is well back home and looking forward to more updates from the states!
Friday, June 17, 2011
I sh*t in a hole....
Hey everyone! It's good to get on the internet and update this blog because so much has already happened. I'm now officially living in LOitokitok with my host family and I can't begin to tell you how humbling it is to have someone take you into your home and basically show you everything you need to know to survive here. My mama is the strongest woman I've ever met. For one, she can touch hot coals with her bare hands. She teaches me to cook Kenyan food, clean the Kenyan way and ya...I sh*t in a hole (this is something I will never get use to). Us PC Volunteers have become very comfortable about talking about pee/poo considering we had a 2 hour session on diarrhea haha! My room at home is very small, but so cute! It is filled with lace all along the walls and the ceiling. My mama heats me up bath water over the fire and I shower out of a bucket. I'm actually quite proud of myself at how good at it I am. I've also become very brave at getting shots. They don't give you any prewarning about getting shots. You show up at a session and all the sudden they are like "oh hey you are getting a Rabies shot today"...great.
I have 2 kakas (brothers) and 1 dada (sister) that live with me too. I showed them how to play "Ring around the rosie", "london bridges falling down" and "patty cake" and now it's all they want to do. It is crazy how different childhood is here. I let them use my pen the other day and a huge fight broke out about who got to use it. I felt so bad because it was just a pen. So the next day I brought them another one and another fight just ended up happening. It makes me think about how at my law office Andrew will always ask me to email Henry for the super-duper crafty pen and all I have to do is shoot him an email and a week later the nicest pen you've ever seen shows up. Ya...they practically cut eachothers throat here for a paper mate haha!
Something I know Sean will be happy to hear, I've seen every single Bay Area sports team represented here so far. They get second hand clothes from the Salvation Army and Goodwill so I've seen the 49ers, Sharks, Raiders and THE OAKLAND A'S (ya baby!) all represented! The funny thing is that they have no idea that they are even American teams, let alone sports at all.
The other day I traveled with a couple of other volunteers to a neighboring village to speak to the Minister of Heath and the Chief Elder about what they do. I learned that right now they are focusing on getting all the families in the area an adequate place to defecate. The problem is many people do not want to use a choo (their form of a toilet which is basically a hole in the ground a mile deep) because they think the people who know vodoo will scoop out their poop and curse them so if they go in the bush they won't be able to tell whose poop is whose...crazy, I know. But these are issues that I will have to deal with as a volunteer in the field and so learning about them early will be good practice. Besides this, we have language practice every day and I'm learning a lot of Swahili, probably one year of high school Spanish and I've only been here a week. We also have cultural training and heath training. I had to administer myself a malaria test the other day and actually draw my own blood. I seriously almost fainted, but once again I surprised myself at how capable I really am and got through it.
I haven't felt that I made the wrong decision in doing this what so ever, in fact I feel like I'm exactly where I am suppose to be. The food is decent, the people kind and I feel so lucky to be able to have an experience like this. Of course, I do miss home a lot and often dream about what I might be missing out on (due to my malaria medication having the side effect of vivid dreams), but at the same time, I am so busy during the week I have little time to think of the sadness that is associated with these feelings. When I get home at night I am beyond tired, and before I know it, it is 6am and my day is getting started again.
Anyway, I am available through email on my phone. It is not easy for me to respond to email on the phone, but even just getting a hello feels good. If you comment on these blog posts it goes to my email too so you can always say hi that way, otherwise my email is aflynnschneider@gmail.com and I look forward to hearing from each and every one of you. I have no pictures to show just yet because we were advised not to take out anything expensive for our first few weeks and although my camera is crappy for American standards, here is is an unimaginable luxury.
Love and miss you all!
Andrea
I have 2 kakas (brothers) and 1 dada (sister) that live with me too. I showed them how to play "Ring around the rosie", "london bridges falling down" and "patty cake" and now it's all they want to do. It is crazy how different childhood is here. I let them use my pen the other day and a huge fight broke out about who got to use it. I felt so bad because it was just a pen. So the next day I brought them another one and another fight just ended up happening. It makes me think about how at my law office Andrew will always ask me to email Henry for the super-duper crafty pen and all I have to do is shoot him an email and a week later the nicest pen you've ever seen shows up. Ya...they practically cut eachothers throat here for a paper mate haha!
Something I know Sean will be happy to hear, I've seen every single Bay Area sports team represented here so far. They get second hand clothes from the Salvation Army and Goodwill so I've seen the 49ers, Sharks, Raiders and THE OAKLAND A'S (ya baby!) all represented! The funny thing is that they have no idea that they are even American teams, let alone sports at all.
The other day I traveled with a couple of other volunteers to a neighboring village to speak to the Minister of Heath and the Chief Elder about what they do. I learned that right now they are focusing on getting all the families in the area an adequate place to defecate. The problem is many people do not want to use a choo (their form of a toilet which is basically a hole in the ground a mile deep) because they think the people who know vodoo will scoop out their poop and curse them so if they go in the bush they won't be able to tell whose poop is whose...crazy, I know. But these are issues that I will have to deal with as a volunteer in the field and so learning about them early will be good practice. Besides this, we have language practice every day and I'm learning a lot of Swahili, probably one year of high school Spanish and I've only been here a week. We also have cultural training and heath training. I had to administer myself a malaria test the other day and actually draw my own blood. I seriously almost fainted, but once again I surprised myself at how capable I really am and got through it.
I haven't felt that I made the wrong decision in doing this what so ever, in fact I feel like I'm exactly where I am suppose to be. The food is decent, the people kind and I feel so lucky to be able to have an experience like this. Of course, I do miss home a lot and often dream about what I might be missing out on (due to my malaria medication having the side effect of vivid dreams), but at the same time, I am so busy during the week I have little time to think of the sadness that is associated with these feelings. When I get home at night I am beyond tired, and before I know it, it is 6am and my day is getting started again.
Anyway, I am available through email on my phone. It is not easy for me to respond to email on the phone, but even just getting a hello feels good. If you comment on these blog posts it goes to my email too so you can always say hi that way, otherwise my email is aflynnschneider@gmail.com and I look forward to hearing from each and every one of you. I have no pictures to show just yet because we were advised not to take out anything expensive for our first few weeks and although my camera is crappy for American standards, here is is an unimaginable luxury.
Love and miss you all!
Andrea
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Yo guys! I'm in Kenya!!!!
6/8/11
I have arrived in Kenya! It was a long long long trip, but I’m finally here...pretty much in tact (although I did cut my foot at the airport). My computer is not agreeing with me already and the converter I hoped would work that I used in South Africa does not work here in Kenya so I’m pretty much out of commission after the 84% of battery on my computer runs out. I’ll be out of an alarm clock too since I can’t charge my iphone, but oh well it’s all in the challenge of being a PC volunteer.
Back in Philly we learned PC core values and other stuff like that. I think there’s gonna be a lot of skit work so after all the theater experience I’ve had, I’m very excited for that. I was able to have a famous Philly cheese steak at Genos and we went out to the bars both nights. My body is hating me currently.
So far I really like everyone! It’s nice to be around people who have the same ambitions as me and are humanitarians. We all share a love of helping people and I think it will go far in this country. There were 56 of us to start, but one has already unfortunately dropped out due to health issues. I was really sad because he was sitting with me on the flight to Brussels, but when we got there he had a seizure and couldn’t go on. I’m pretty sure they won’t let him make it to Kenya now. But 55 of us made it and are waking up bright and early to start training.
6/9/11
I have the internet! And I was able to barrow a converter from someone so my computer is up and running! Today we had our first day of training in the compound in Nairobi. I got four shots in the arm so it’s super sore, but I was proud of myself because I took ‘em like a man...well you know what I mean, I was brave. We learned about safety and security and did skits on the PC 10 commandments. My skit was about a girl getting pregnant because she didn’t use protection and she got sent home. Guess who was the pregnant girl?! Haha! Told you my acting skills would come into handy!
Then we had our first language class which actually went better than I was expecting. We learned simple kiSwahili greetings and I wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. The language sounds like it reads too that helps. After, a few of us played soccer out in the yard and it felt great to get some exercise.
I just got off skype with Sean and gchatted a little with Morgan and my cousin Rose so it was nice to hear from home. 30 years ago people in PC had to stand in a line at a post office for hours if they wanted to reach home, but now we are all sitting on a PC facebook chat room chatting each other from our rooms haha! It won’t be like this the whole time though, just while I’m in the city, which is only a few more days. I should be getting a cell phone though in the next few days and will post the number on my blog when I can.
On Saturday we pack up from Nairobi and leave for Loitokitok for our training and then on Sunday we move in with our host families. They are not allowed to speak English to us even if they know it, so this should be interesting. They will be teaching me everything from language to cooking to washing my clothes and fetching water. I cannot wait!
By the way if you send me a package within my first 3 months, it is duty free! So get on sending haha! Remember, it takes over a monthish to get to me though. The address is on the left. We have a special guy who will bring it down to us from Nairobi to our site in Loitokitok. Don’t send anything of value, but I’m asking for soccer balls at this time, peanut butter, gushers, ketchup and other goodies! yay!
Anyway, miss you all and will blog again when I can!
All my love!
I have arrived in Kenya! It was a long long long trip, but I’m finally here...pretty much in tact (although I did cut my foot at the airport). My computer is not agreeing with me already and the converter I hoped would work that I used in South Africa does not work here in Kenya so I’m pretty much out of commission after the 84% of battery on my computer runs out. I’ll be out of an alarm clock too since I can’t charge my iphone, but oh well it’s all in the challenge of being a PC volunteer.
Back in Philly we learned PC core values and other stuff like that. I think there’s gonna be a lot of skit work so after all the theater experience I’ve had, I’m very excited for that. I was able to have a famous Philly cheese steak at Genos and we went out to the bars both nights. My body is hating me currently.
So far I really like everyone! It’s nice to be around people who have the same ambitions as me and are humanitarians. We all share a love of helping people and I think it will go far in this country. There were 56 of us to start, but one has already unfortunately dropped out due to health issues. I was really sad because he was sitting with me on the flight to Brussels, but when we got there he had a seizure and couldn’t go on. I’m pretty sure they won’t let him make it to Kenya now. But 55 of us made it and are waking up bright and early to start training.
6/9/11
I have the internet! And I was able to barrow a converter from someone so my computer is up and running! Today we had our first day of training in the compound in Nairobi. I got four shots in the arm so it’s super sore, but I was proud of myself because I took ‘em like a man...well you know what I mean, I was brave. We learned about safety and security and did skits on the PC 10 commandments. My skit was about a girl getting pregnant because she didn’t use protection and she got sent home. Guess who was the pregnant girl?! Haha! Told you my acting skills would come into handy!
Then we had our first language class which actually went better than I was expecting. We learned simple kiSwahili greetings and I wasn’t as bad as I was expecting. The language sounds like it reads too that helps. After, a few of us played soccer out in the yard and it felt great to get some exercise.
I just got off skype with Sean and gchatted a little with Morgan and my cousin Rose so it was nice to hear from home. 30 years ago people in PC had to stand in a line at a post office for hours if they wanted to reach home, but now we are all sitting on a PC facebook chat room chatting each other from our rooms haha! It won’t be like this the whole time though, just while I’m in the city, which is only a few more days. I should be getting a cell phone though in the next few days and will post the number on my blog when I can.
On Saturday we pack up from Nairobi and leave for Loitokitok for our training and then on Sunday we move in with our host families. They are not allowed to speak English to us even if they know it, so this should be interesting. They will be teaching me everything from language to cooking to washing my clothes and fetching water. I cannot wait!
By the way if you send me a package within my first 3 months, it is duty free! So get on sending haha! Remember, it takes over a monthish to get to me though. The address is on the left. We have a special guy who will bring it down to us from Nairobi to our site in Loitokitok. Don’t send anything of value, but I’m asking for soccer balls at this time, peanut butter, gushers, ketchup and other goodies! yay!
Anyway, miss you all and will blog again when I can!
All my love!
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Had to do one more post before I go
I know I said the last post was going to be my last post in America, but after today I had to write one more thing. This weekend was my final goodbyes. Friday night I spent one last night out in my favorite city in the world, San Francisco and then Saturday my wonderful friends and family came together to throw me a going away BBQ. I can't begin to tell you how humbling it is to know that people care about me so much. I love when experiences like this bring people together. I'm beyond blessed in my life. So I just wanted to write one last time and just say thank you and I love you to all the amazing people who are supporting me. It truly means the world.
OH! AND I'M FINALLY PACKED!
OH! AND I'M FINALLY PACKED!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Last blog post in America
Only a few days ago I was off camping and trying out all my new gear with Sean. It was so peaceful and serene. Our camp was literally right on the ocean at the bottom of Mt. Tamalpais. In a way I wish I was still back there sitting next to the campfire, but at the same time I know I have a great journey ahead of me.
I've done most of my packing at this point and I've said some goodbyes. My final goodbye party is on Saturday. We are going to BBQ at the Lafayette Reservoir if it doesn't get rained out. It's been extremely hard saying goodbye to people. I mean I've always been a pretty emotional person, but this is way harder than I thought it would be. I've become so close with my friends here and as I've grown older I've realized how important family can be, so leaving all this behind literally feels like I'm leaving some of myself behind.
But I am looking forward to the future and all the good that it will hold. I can't wait to meet my fellow volunteers and start this journey together. Most of all, I look forward to meeting the people of Kenya and being welcomed into their country so I can someday call it home as well.
I just wanted to say one final thank you to everyone for your support along the way and I'm going to miss everyone so much. Please make an effort to stay in touch with me and I will promise I will do my best to respond to all emails etc when I am able to. And follow this blog to keep up with what I'm doing during my service.
Lots of Love! ya Fatah!
I will see you all in 27 months!
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