Last week in Loitokitok. I would use the term bittersweet but the truth is I am craving independence and cant wait to be on the coast. Everyone I talk to has nothing but good things to say about my site. I have done some research and found some potentially good breaks using Google Earth. Also, I have found out that there is a golf course and a casino within 40 minutes of my house. I know, I know it keeps getting better. This week I met my closest volunteer. He is about 40 min south of me and cool as shit. I’m excited to check out Mombassa with him, it’s a bummer though he leaves in December. It is cold and incredibly dusty here (it has rained once in the two months I am here and this is the “wet season”) making me more and more anxious to get to my hot sandy home. I have been busy lately as you can tell from my infrequent posts. Last weekend we had a party at a camp site on the base of Kilimanjaro for the 4th of July. We got a couple kegs delivered and roasted a goat over a fire. An interesting mix of cultures. We played beer pong and I ran the table most the night; nice to know I still have it. In other eventful news I slaughtered my first chicken or any animal for that matter this week. I was excited to do it as a kind of right of passage type of thing but did not intend on doing it again. However today I was asked by my family to slaughter another chicken. As it is a great honor, I could not decline but am happy to say it went smoother the second time around. I am mildly concerned about the chicken haunting me in my sleep though. The anti-malarial drugs we are on give us disturbingly vivid dreams so unfortunately this is not out of the realm of possibilities. Wednesday is my big language examination. If I pass I will swear in as a Peace Corps Volunteer on Saturday. We are having our ceremony and after party at the Ambassadors’ House it should be pretty interesting. My Kiswahili is coming along pretty well and am fairly confident I will pass. That’s it for now I am in need of an afternoon cocktail. Oh yea, Wardo and Alex that sketchy phone number you keep ignoring is me trying to call you so answer your damn phone one of these days. PEACE
Dino