Trips
Museum and Whispers (The one where we are tourists)
By now, it was our second week-end in Lamu, and we were planning to go to Malindi. Alas, laziness prevailed, and we decided to postpone that to the next week-end. Instead, we figured we could hang around Lamu and act touristy for once. Which is how (most of) this album came along. It was a good … Continue reading
The last one with field notes
As I already mentioned, I only have field notes for a teeny-tiny part of my stay in Lamu – this is the last post including that. Therefore, from this point onward, the posts will be focused on particular topics, as my memory is fading and I cannot recall precisely what I did when (not that … Continue reading
The one where I feel like I’m living in Stars Hollow (or The one with the creepy guy)
This one goes out to Cristy. July 25. At 2, there’s a “strategical” Save Lamu meeting, and we tag along to see what’s being discussed. Since we are the first to arrive at the office (d’oh, we were there at 2.15-ish – everybody knows that a meeting called for 2 will start the very earliest at … Continue reading
When we use politicians, they will also use us (The one with a shell from Shela)
Cliché shot of footsteps in the sand July 21. We have a meeting scheduled for the afternoon, and before that we go with J. to the school manager, who is part of the organization we are working for. He gives us a (very) brief overview of the Lamu Town performance. “Our school is always the first … Continue reading
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail (The one where I pretend I’m Dutch)
July 19. The first meeting we had with the local organizations went a little less well than expected. The main reason was that one of the older guys who attended was fairly annoying, and quite vocal, so he made le big mess. A good lesson for future meetings – plan ahead. There were 3-4 women at the … Continue reading
From Nairobi to Lamu, and our first days there (The one with Bob Marley)
Since this is the part where I was still hoping I could keep up a field journal, and since I’m an advocate of honesty, I’ll post here some parts of my field notes (the ones I now deem cool enough). Enjoy! July 16. Today we flew from Nairobi to Lamu. Our flight from Wilson Airport was … Continue reading
What about Lamu, what was up with that?
Lamu is this awesome island off the northern coast of Kenya, where I had the privilege of living for five or so weeks. And no, I did not bribe anyone for that, I was just incredibly lucky. In the following posts, I’ll try to give you an overview of the fun parts of my stay … Continue reading
So what were you doing in Kenya in the first place?
See, my uni has this program, called UCU in Africa (UCU stands for University College Utrecht) – official description can be found here. I applied for this last year in October, got a positive response sometime in November, et voila: my summer was all planned out for me. Five weeks of field course, covering various … Continue reading
Hello (hi-tech) world!
Well, I’m back from Kenya, to the world of (almost) free Internet, and playing YouTube videos without feeling guilty for using up my quota. It’s been some incredible 77 days in Africa, and I’ve tried to keep in touch as much as possible, but it’s very difficult to tell everyone how things were, and what … Continue reading
