Three day weekends are great. Especially when you can get a round trip ticket to a beautiful, mostly empty, white-sands beach for $100. Add in the taxi, hotel, and food ... another $220 (total!) ... and you get three days and two nights of bliss that looks like this: Galu beach at almost high tide. ... Continue Reading →
My mom came for the long weekend! I found out last Wednesday that she would be flying in from Congo on Friday afternoon. Since I had the day off school, I picked her up from the airport and we have spent the rest of the weekend resting and exploring. On Saturday we drove up to... Continue Reading →
For all the fun things going on these last few months, there have been an equal number of headaches and hassles. Like a headache, the hassles tend to start with a tiny disturbance - a soft dull throb. When the dull throb starts beating behind your eyeballs, you try to do something ... take a... Continue Reading →
Feb. 12th For the last two years, I've been involved as the teacher sponsor of the student chapter of Habitat for Humanity. (If you are not familiar with the organization, look it up. It's cool.) Last month, two other teachers and I took a group of about twenty students to a build site an hour... Continue Reading →
Jan 23 - 28th Those who have been following this blog for a while have seen the pictures and read the stories of me on Mt. Kenya - you know about the intercultural trips student's at this school go on every year. In case this blog is new to you: every year in the last... Continue Reading →
Dec 29th - 31st She gave me a curious look - maybe hesitant or confused, certainly amused - and responded, "Do we bathe every day? Of course." I glanced off towards the field for a moment, faintly embarrassed. I had come prepared to rough it. What's three days without a bath after all? But my... Continue Reading →
A weathered taxi pulled up to the gas station. The slightly disheveled, middle-aged driver stepped out into the early morning drizzle and straightened his hat. One of the pump attendants recognized him with a broad smile and the two men greeted each other. "Kenya mpya!" "Eh, Kenya mpya!" An odd greeting for a Saturday morning.... Continue Reading →
At thirty minutes before game-time, there were only a few seats left in the front. Over four hundred fans had crowded under a tent in the parking lot of a local bar to watch England and the USA play their first world cup game. Four hundred people on bleachers and plastic chairs, armed with vuvuzelas,... Continue Reading →
I have tried to be consistent with blogging these last few months; at once a week (ish), I think I've done a decent job. In spite of these efforts though, life continues to be much fuller than I have given credit here on the Dunehopper Diaries. This post will thus be a hodgepodge of happenings,... Continue Reading →
On Saturday I took some visiting friends out to an elephant orphanage. These elephants are rescued by Kenya Wildlife Services when the mothers are killed by either poaching or natural causes. Hand-raised by humans, they get the opportunity to develop many talents. I think that the South African World Cup and FIFA officials should consider... Continue Reading →
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