Friday, July 15, 2011







As we are nearing the end of our trip we are excited with the anticipated return home to the comfort of our normal routine summer lives.  This feeling, however, is coupled by another of nostalgia as we reflect back upon our amazing time in such an awe inspiring country.  By now most of us have fortunately almost fully recovered from array of post homestay afflictions, and are working on the construction site in full force.  We have completed the trench digging and dirt moving, laid down a cinderblock grid and have begun filling each unit with rocks, creating, in effect, a mosaic.  This mosaic of rocks will provide the base of the foundation on which the cement will be poured to achieve our final product.  From the Orkeeswa football pitch, one can see a beautiful panoramic view of limitless wilderness; the dirt pitch is encompassed by forested mountains which unfold into untold square miles of savannah.  Even this distant taste of the Africa that we grow up to see on TV excites us for our safari tomorrow to Lake Manyara together with the second formers of the Orkeeswa school, which definitely promises to be an amazing experience for both groups of students, over and out.

Johann



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