Week 15

Our life in Kenya is in a “quiet” stage. Eight of the people we have been travelling with (2 Danes, 3 Canadians and 3 Swedes) are home, or on their way home. Grace and I and the two Swedish medical students have less than two weeks left in Eldoret. The two Americans are staying until June. We have had many weekend excursions and are now taking things easy for a couple of weeks before spending a week in Mombasa and a few days around Nairobi to end our visit to Kenya in mid May.

Kenya’s public schools have three month long breaks between semesters, one of them in April, so Grace’s work here is virtually done. She is continuing tutoring a nine-year old boy from Winnipeg who is living across the lane from us. In April I have been giving a series of seminars to graduate students and faculty. The last session is scheduled for April 26. A week later we plan to leave for Mombasa. Most of my classes have been in the Eldoret Hospice, shown below. The Economics department rents the upper floor for their graduate courses.

On our way to Masai Mara on April 6 we passed several groups on a Good Friday pilgrimage to “re-enact” the events we remember on that day. The picture below shows one of the groups.

Since we are in the rainy season with some periods of rain almost every day, there are also quite a few puddles around which has also brought out a few mosquitos. The numbers are not large but with Kenya being a malaria area, Grace and I have begun sleeping in a “tent” – a mosquito net that forms a dome over our bed. The rains have also made everything much greener.

Throughout our stay here we have enjoyed many flowers. Here are pictures of a few of the flowers and also a couple of more pictures about the rural landscape between Eldoret and some of the places we travelled to.