I have been informed that my blog looks pathetic without any posts, so I decided I would write a bit explaining exactly what I will be doing this next year. To put it simply, I will be volunteering as a high school math and science teacher in Kenya for a year. The organization I will be working through is the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). In two weeks, I will be going to Pennsylvania for a one week orientation at the MCC headquarters. During this orientation, I and about 100 other one year volunteers will learn about how to live in another country and in a different culture. After this orientation, all of us will fly out to different parts of the world. There will be only one other one year volunteer going to Kenya with me.
Once we get to Kenya, we will meet all the long term (normally 3 years) volunteers in Kenya and have a two week in country orientation at the MCC Kenya headquarters in Nairobi. During these two weeks, we will have a crash course in Swahili. After these two weeks, I will go to Migori to begin teaching. Migori is a city of about 30,000 in Southwestern Kenya. It is very close to the Tanzanian border and also close to Lake Victoria. As far as teaching goes, almost all the classes in high school are taught in English, so I should not have too much trouble communicating at work. However, I will try to continue to learn Sawhili in order to make communication in daily life easier. Especially since while I am living in Migori, I will be staying with a host family. (My host family will know English, but it would be nice if I can talk to them in their language at times.)
For those of you who are wondering, my next post will probably come in about 3 or 4 weeks, when I am in Nairobi.
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