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And so the second leg of my trip has begun! First impressions. Oz is awesome. Bounced into Brisbane on Wednesday with the worst jetlag imaginable – to say I was zombie-fied would be an understatment. In the first 24 hours I managed to lock myself out of my room twice and when I was told we were having meat pie for dinner I went around saying ’oooo meat pie Monday my favourite!’ and didn’t realise...

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In the chaos and excitement of the last few weeks I seem to have lost track of time because all of a sudden I’ve found myself in the departure lounge at Nairobi airport waiting for my flight back to the UK. 6 weeks – gone just like that. But my god, what a six weeks it’s been! Ups, downs… it’s all been absolutely amazing and I honestly don’t think I would change a thing because...

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Last weekend I found another reason to love Kenya; safari! It’s funny though because while most typical tourists come to Kenya for safari for us volunteers it was a bit of an after-thought. Something we all wanted to do but had to be um-ed and ah-ed about because of the cost. When we did finally commit to a three day journey to Tsavo East and Abeseli national park it was a huge treat and ended...

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First all can I just apologise for the lack of blogs recently, it has been a manic week! And secondly, apologies for the lack of photos too. It takes so long to upload anything here that any attempt has left me wanting to bash my head off the floor. Anyway, as I was saying, it has been such a manic week and, the longer I am here, the more I begin to realise I have...

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This is just a quick blog to air some pent up frustration over the attitudes of some volunteers. There are as you may or may not be aware a lot of for and against arguments over young westerners heading out to developing parts of the world to do short term volunteer work. Are the volunteers taking a local person’s job for example? or are they really skilled enough to take the role of teacher/builder/carer? is...

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Jambo! I can’t believe I have in Mombasa for a week already – and oh my god what a week it has been! There have of course been some highs and lows. I’ve had a little homesickness now and then which is to be expected really and it’s been quite tough adapting to temperatures of up to 45 degrees while trying to teach 40 kids in hot sweaty classrooms. I also got pickpocketed – although...

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Woo hoo! I am finally writing this blog from Mombasa Kenya! I arrived last week on Thursday and it has been just awesome since touch down! I am living back at the same volunteer house with 11 other girls and one guy (poor bloke!) and I even have the same room and bed as last time :) Going back to Twaayf was amazing; everyone was so happy to see me and they couldn’t have been...

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