Slacker!

Sorry folks! I have been sucking at posting this past week. Let me catch you up!

Jenni (Director of Operations) comes home! Wednesday of last week Jenni came back to Daraja after 3 1/2 months in Cali doing fundraising. The girls were so happy to see her. I had my HIV/STD class before she came, and the Form 1 and 2 girls ended up keeping me for two hours so they could ask me every sex question they have ever had. It was a little awkward on my end but I tried really hard not to show it. The girls were so open and honest and I was really proud of them. We talked about everything from oral sex to female circumcision, and they were super mature about it.

Friday my dad and I went into town to have dinner. It was nice, we had the whole restaurant to ourselves! He is building a swing set for the children that live here (kids of the teachers, guards, kitchen staff). It's not even finished and they LOVE IT!

The weekend was nuts. Every weekend I have 4 HIV/STD classes and the past two weekends I've held 2 CPR classes! I'm certifying 6 girls to be AHA CPR instructors, they are SO into it. I'm hoping that they will be able to use this as a source of income in the future. AHA is setting up a training center in Nairobi so they should be able to work through that. In HIV class this week we played a game with candy that showed how HIV can spread through sexual partners. We also talked a lot about prostitution because a few of the girls asked for ways to help friends who have to have sex for money.

Today (tuesday) we went on a Baboon walk and did some touristy stuff. The baboons are amazing - researchers here have been studying this troop for over 15 years so they let you get very close. I will post some pictures later. We saw giraffe and elephant on our way, and then about 50+ baboon! One young baboon was very curious of my pale legs and when I turned my back she reached out to touch it! I tried not to react because you can start a frenzy but I was a little nervous!

I am going to upload pictures and try to get them on here! We have had rain storms every night the past two weeks so the signal isn't great.