It's been a month since I left home! Time has flown - most of the time. These past few days were quite miserable since I got my first dose of stomach problems. I'm not sure what I ate/drank that made me sick, but it was pretty nasty from Thursday to Saturday night. Feeling Much better now!

We only have 3 weeks left of classes and then are off to our internships. I will be working with a small organization that travels to different groups of people - mostly women - who have received small loans for business purposes. I'm not exactly sure what I will be doing, but it sounds like I will be teaching basic business skills to these women, which should be awesome! I'll be living in a rural area west of Mombasa with a family of 12 and a cat! It's hard to imagine what to expect in this rural setting after adjusting to the polluted and busy city of Nairobi, but I'm looking forward to it.

This morning I went to an Eritrean Orthodox church with a Greek Orthodox friend and an Ethiopian Orthodox friend. We got there late so were unable to get a seat inside of the church. After listening from the outside for a while, we decided to go the "church school" tent where kids singing loudly! It was great! There were about 25 Eritrean kids clapping and singing and staring at us! Kids here are not shy at all about staring when they see a white person. There have been many incidents when my friends and I are just walking on the street and kids will walk by, point, and say "Mizzungu!" (this means a white person with money - not a negative term to Africans, just a term) and sometimes add an "I love you!" At first it was a little strange to get used to, but now we have learned to simply embrace it.

I may be heading to Milindi beach next weekend! I've been told it's a beautiful white sand beach, so I'm looking forward to that! Hope there's no snow in North Dakota yet!?