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Hey guys, I had such a great time last night, so I thought I’d write a quick blog. For starters, I’m now the proud Auntie of a Master Kai Wiggers, born yesterday, mother and baby doing well – I can’t wait to meet them! I celebrated in style to the African drum (ok so it was the bottom of a water barrel but anything goes here) and danced like an excited child at the news....

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So I guess its been another week full of stories and experiences, I seem to find it hard to talk of all the interesting things though because they’re fast becoming normality. Like the camels that spend the evenings outside my compound – the first time I saw them I was pretty surprised but now its just normal and its quite fun to be living near a group of camels, it makes for interesting scenery anyway!...

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So much has happened since I last wrote that I don’t even know where to start. It hasn’t been easy this visit, the kids have been working so hard that I haven’t got to see them as much as last time and I’m staying further away as well which means I need to leave earlier to get home before sunset. I saw them this weekend, but they have school even on Saturdays so it’s not...

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Hey guys, thought it was about time for another update. A lot has happened this week so I’ll have to pick the most interesting bits. It’s rained a lot this week – so much one day that I was completely drenched and covered in mud. Class 4 have to pass something like a stream to get to class when its raining so when I went to teach them I had to sludge through it and...

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A week on... Mambo! (that’s hello round here) Its taken a while but here’s my first blog. I’ve been here a week now, and so much has happened already. For starters it took 48 hours to get here as my flight from Amsterdam to Mombasa was delayed by over a day and then we still nearly didn’t go – we got to the plane and then a thunder storm broke out and we had to...

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Hey guys, Can't write for long today as Namu is teaching me to make chipati's tonight :) But just wanted to write a short post as I only have 4 days left so not much time left to write. I had a very full weekend, didn't go to the beach on saturday in the end as a different school came to visit new hope so the kids were busy. Instead, I went to buy some...

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Hey guys, Time for another quick installment... I realised I didn't tell you guys about my birthday celebrations!! Well, it was on the wednesday and we went to a nice restaurant called pilipili, I had fried beef and rice done very well and I know everyone else enjoyed their food too...it was nice that I had people to celebrate it with even though I'm in a different country and away from family. Thanks for all...

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Hey guys, time for another exciting installment of Chagit's adventures... I'm afraid it might not be a long one today as one of my adventures was to the hospital today with food poisoning but hopefully the medicine they gave me will help me to recover quickly and I can come back and tell you some more. I went on safari with two of the other volunteers at the weekend, it was amazing! We (me, Nat,...

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Hey guys, Here's my second post, not bad eh for only a couple of days after the first one :) So...I went to Mamba village on Sunday, a crocodile farm! It was really cool, there must have been more than a thousand crocodiles there, really crazy. I went round with the guide who showed us them all, we saw ones of all sizes up to the 'big daddy' who is over 100 years old and...

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Hey guys, So here goes my first blog entry...I'm in Mombasa! Woop! I've been here for a week now and am having an amazing time. The kids at the orphanage are really great and I'm enjoying getting to spend a lot of time with them and getting to know them all. I go to school for around 9 unless I'm taking the class when I have to be there at 8. School is really long...

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