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Kenya--Spring 2006 >> Students' Travel Journal
Lauren Thie, June 2006 Habari everyone! I saw baboons, vervet monkeys, giraffes, Grant's & Thomson's gazelles, zebras, impalas, gerenuk, and wildebeest! School has started today, so it means I actually have to start working in free time and can't spend it all gazing at beautiful "Kili." For lunch we had a traditional Kenyan dish -- Ugali (spelling is butchered I'm sure) -- which is much like a thicker version of grits. We also had chopped greens; they tasted exactly like collards. I think that southerners and the Maasai would get together well at the dinner table. After lecture this afternoon, we had a demonstration with a spear from the Maasai moran that works here. I think I am going to bring a Maasai spear back with me; so watch out! :) Tomorrow we will head to Amboseli National Park, the most visited park in Kenya that is infamous for its elephants and its proximity to Mt. Kilimanjaro, the largest free-standing mountain in the world. Next week we are heading on a 5 day expedition to Tsavo West, home of the "man-eating lions." (Don't worry guards are coming with us, mom!) P.S.I am 8 hours ahead here of Eastern Time.
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