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A little after noon we left the park and headed into Voi. We ater our packed lunches at a gas station/ rest stop. Anne, Ruben (our teachers), our food and other supplies joined us there. We then clombed back into the vans and began our way inot the Taita hills for our week village stay.

Welcome to Mgange-Dawida

Rachel Buhr
2006-08-21 18:26:53

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A little after noon we left the park and headed into Voi. We ater our packed lunches at a gas station/ rest stop. Anne, Ruben (our teachers), our food and other supplies joined us there. We then clombed back into the vans and began our way inot the Taita hills for our week village stay.

We got rained on on our way up. It was so peaceful I ended up falling asleep. When I awoke it appeared our vans had been teleported to Costa Rica. The hills/mountains we were climbinb were so green and trees were everywhere. The only ones I recognized were the banana trees. The hillsides were covered in terraced farms that reminded me of Nepal and scattered houses.

It didn't take us long to arriave at the site of the clinic we were going to help build at the village of Mgange-Dawida. We were met at the site by our host-mothers. Once our bags had been unloaded they began reading off the names of a student and their new mother. We began leaving one by one. when they read off mine and my mother's name, Romana, I recieved a great big hug from her, grabbed my
bag and we were off to my new home for the next 9 days. It was about a 15-20 min walk down the mountain t o our house. I was greeted by lots of people while we passed their homes.

Everything around me was sooo green and vibrant. It was such a contrast of landscape and vegitation from where we had just been. we passed houses that had flowers planted infront of them. I hadn't realized until that moment that that had been missing from all the houses I've seen in Lamu, Malindi and Mombasa. They made those homes appear much more welcoming. I hadn't realized how much I missed planted flowers. After we turned off the main road we headed down a fairly steep and very muddy narrow trail. It had just rained so everything was extremely slippery. I kept expecting myself to slip and just eat it with my big backpack on my back trhowing off my balance. I really was prepared to just slide down ...