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 more welcoming – even the littler children remembered who I am – made me feel very special (in a good way not the yellow bus kind of way…)

Am really excited to get stuck in this time. As I am here for two months I am going to be looking after a number of bigger projects as well as teaching at the school in the mornings. One of my bigger roles is going to be to create and organise a structure for future volunteers as Twaayf has just managed to secure it’s own accommodation for volunteers so will now be running it’s own intern placements for people coming over rather than just using third parties. That means i’ll be very busy putting together brochures, leaflets, application forms, screening processes and so on.

I’m also going to be involved with securing new funding and writing articles to try and get them placed in local mags etc. All in all – a very very busy role which is no doubt going to leave me knackered by the time I leave! absolutely awesome though – I love that this time I can get my teeth into projects which will really make a difference.

I have already been picking up lots of Swahili too – possibly the most important being ‘Nataka Pombay’ which at the end of the very very hot and hard working day is almost critical to survival. Loosly translated it means: Give me a beer.

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