Been a while since the last post due to a technical failure last time we had access to internet. Will try to update the last week as quickly as possible.

.hmmessage P { PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } BODY.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana } BODY { SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR: #cecfce; SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: #3f52b8; SCROLLBAR-TRACK-COLOR: #fffbff; SCROLLBAR-DARKSHADOW-COLOR: #fafafa; SCROLLBAR-BASE-COLOR: #f7f7f7 } Last weekend was miles away from all the teaching and building work - a holiday in a holiday if you will. We went to a camp called Carnelly's near Naivasha (thoroughly recommend if you ever want to do safari) which had electricity, hot showers (with a lovely smell of charcoal burning), nachos, burgers and wine. We all had hot showers, got dressed up, put make up on and went out to a club! It was quite an experience - the whole night was basically a huge dance circle which anyone went into the middle and made a pratt out of themselves. Lots of fun. Of course then it meant we only had 3 hours sleep before we trekked up Mount Longonot, but amazingly we all survived and had a great time. The views were unbelievable - it was 2,780m high and was a dormant volcano, so there was a massive crater that took us about 3 hours to walk around. However, the cleanliness of the night before became a distant memory - as we trekked we kicked up a lot of volcanic ash and got so so dirty. Thankfully we had access to showers before we went back to Karunga!

Our last week working in Karunga went extremely fast. We'd really started to settle into life there so saying goodbyes were difficult. The building work became a little less strenuous and more skill based, which required fewer people, so those of us who were surplus to requirements for the building (hesistate to say less skilled but it was partly true!) set about on other projects. We made a number of teaching aids in the form of poster diagrams which showcased our hidden artistic talents, and helped organise a sports day. The sports day went down very well in the form of a large organised chaos on the sports field. Was quite a lot of work trying to deal with 280 excitable school children but somehow we coped and they seemed to enjoy it lots.

Yesterday the school organised a leaving ceremony for those of us who were going which was very moving. A brilliant end to a truly memorable volunteer project.

Today we are in Nairobi ready to transfer to our safari. :)

Over and out,

Lyndsey and Camilla xxxxxxxxx