So it has been another memorable and overwhelmingly enjoyable packed week in East Africa. This past week our group headed to Nairobi Kenya where we met up with OWU graduate Ben Wallingford who has been living in Nairobi for the past six months, working as a micro financing intern. We also met up with Scott Bellows, another OWU graduate, who is the CEO of Mercy Corps in Nairobi Kenya. Our group got to experience a true Kenyan slum, where we visited the Kawangware slum outside Nairobi. We were lucky and were able to have met up with women living in Kawangware who are working with a micro financing company called Maono, who is trying to help these women save their money and eventually help them by increasing their individual businesses. It was a an experience that I don't think any of us will ever forget. The children were as beautiful and innocent as they could be, screaming hello after us everywhere we went in the streets. Some even followed us screaming "mzungus!" (meaning white people). The women we met were as welcoming and grateful to us as we could have ever imagined. The women's strength, courage and determination have left a mark on us all and it was very motivational and empowering for us all to have experienced.

Later that day we visited the Great Rift Valley, seeing the beautiful and majestical mountains and hillsides of where human civilization was first found. We also got to visit an elephant orphanage where we met 12 orphan elephants who ranged from a few moths old to a few years old. Later that day we then visited the Giraffe Centre where all six of us got to experience what it feels like to kiss a giraffe. It's an interesting feeling that makes you chuckle. Luckily giraffes salvia is anti-septic, so we will survive from the multiple lovable kisses from the giraffes. Overall it was an education packed trip to Nairobi that none of us will ever forget.

We are back in Arusha Tanzania now and tomorrow we are off to start our five day safari!!! More fun packed experiences for us all to come in the future. Stay tuned!