Desert living.

Hello everyone! First things first, if you have e-mailed me and I didn't respond I'm sorry! The internet is sporadic and very very slow here. I'm going to post on the Stony Brook blog tonight (which is functioning again) about all the things I have done in Nairobi and also at TBI, but for now I'll just say I really miss everyone. It's absolutely beautiful here it's the kind of landscape that you can't really imagine until you are in it. The bugs are huge, but I am coping quite well and am actually doing my first research project on camel spiders (google image them), you'll be impressed. I'm going to try to e-mail everyone back today as we have some free time before and after lunch, but our schedule is rather tight. We generally wake up at six, breakfast at 7, an excursion and class from 8 to 12:30, lunch at 1, break until 3:30 when we typically go on another outing. Dinner is served at 8 every night and we have become accustomed to swimming in the river before dinner if we get back to the compound in time. So far I have not gotten sunburned!! This is a personal triumph for me, as we are right on the equator! We all tend to pass out before 10, walking around in the sun all day can be rather tiring, also the bugs get rather adventurous at night and we would all rather be tucked away behind our mosquito nets safe from scorpions and large spiders! I'm happy to say everyone in the group is super nice and we haven't had any scuffles so far! Last night we went out after dark for a walk so our ecology professor Dino could show us how scorpions fluoresce under a black-light, it's amazing how cool nature is! The stars have fully lived up to my expectations, they are bright and beautiful and clearer than I have ever seen them before! I have been experimenting and failing completely at night photography but maybe by the end of my time here I'll be able to take a photo of them!

Love you all,

Kim

Kalimaaaa

Hello everyone! Today is the day! I am leaving for JFK in 20 minutes and I am so excited/terrified! Anyway here is the link to my blog through SBU:

http://admissions.cc.stonybrook.edu/studyabroad/?p=88

It is more than likely that I will post more frequently there, and use this account for the bad jokes that I am unable to tell on my student blog.

Love you all!

Kim