first kenya post

hey guys

well i have had a very hecti week (bro)

on my way to mombassa, my bags got lost. I had a feeling this would happens so i wasnt suprised at all. I went for 3 days with out my bags and i was borrowing clothes off other poeple. My bags were eventually found and i have them now, thank goodness.

We have started work on muhaka primary school. We were sent to a different village to what were were briefed on in australia, but thats ok. in the 4 days that we have ben worjking, we have laid a concrete slab for the 3 classrooms we are building and we have also started on the brickwork. Doesnty sound like much, but everything has to be done manually; Mixing the concrete included. Our concrete mix is 1 bag of cement, 3 weelbarrows of sand and 4 barrows of gravel, which in reality is small stones. We take it back to the construction site and mix it all with shovesls. we then take it up the the foundations 1 barrow at a time and lay it on the foundations. On a good day we can do 2 mixes with 3 bagks of conrete each, and one 2 bag mix in the arvo. Im gonna be a tank when i get back.

This week i have also been in hospital for a night. dont stress, im ok, it was just a gut infection. Diani beach hospital is very nice. I had my own room with a dvd plater, tv, air con and an ensuit bathroom, also 3 meals a day wich had an entre, main and desert.they wated to keep me there for 2 nights but i said no. It was very obvious they are just after the rich white tourists' insurance funds. I hated every minute of it. What really what me was that they got dissapointed when i didnt eat my food. Well no shit guys, my stomach is doing backflips, no wonder im not hungry. They didnt seem to realise this.

During the night at this place i had a male nurse come in and check my drip 3 times in one hour for lack of any thing else to do. During the second morning there i had people constantly coming in and out of my room. Nurses asking me what i wanted to eat, docters checking up on me, nurses getting my blood pressure, cleaners, some did to put a mozzie repeller in...all this while there is construction work going on.

I hated it there, and im annoyed that Ck sent me there straight away, rather than talking to a docter first. they say hospital is ment to be the last resort. In my case, it was the first.

Another adventure i had was buying sim cards for every one when i was getting my bags back. Myself and Hugh, on the way to the Ci office, bought 14 sim cards and credit for people in the camp. I had about 11,100 KSH in my wallet. It didnt close...
We bought this all from a little shack on the side of the road. It felt like the shadiest thing to do, but it was good fun.

I have also washed my phone so it doesnt work any more. I have bought a new one for 4500ksh. one aussie dollar will buy 50 shillings, so im quite happy with that price.

Tomorrow i am getting dread locks in my hair with hair extentions...i cant wait.

thats all for this week folks, ill post again in 7 days time to tell u what i have been up to.

Cheers,
Jash.