ONE MORE WEEK

JUST ONE MORE WEEK LEFT!!!  Not that I haven’t had a blast, but I really need to get home.  I’m not sure how I will react when I touch ground in the good-old USA.  It might go something like this – I step off the plane, and epic music begins playing in the background.  I [...]

Shit Hits the Fan

Guillaume started another blog called fmlkenya.wordpress.com.  I’d like to think it’s pretty funny, mostly because I posted on it. Today I was forced to transfer matatus in the rain into a matatu that was already packed beyond capacity.  At first, I began to ask the conductor where I was going to sit.  He didn’t seem [...]

3 Weeks Left

I couldn’t blog this weekend because the group went to Hell’s Gate national park for our mid-term retreat.  Actually it was more of a 2/3 retreat.  In any case, I think we all badly needed that trip.  It was great to get away from Kakamega and our work and just have fun – live it [...]

Microsoft ACCESS!!!

Online fundraising ends on the 29th!  Donate here! Eff my life.  I find out today – today! more than halfway through the internship – that the hospital was delivered four computers (bringing their total up to five).  One of the ministry requirements is to computerize patient data.  A winning combination, right?  Wrong.  No one at [...]

Grant Review, part 1

I figured I’d post my grant text in full and then post the letter that FSD sent me in response.  The grant can be downloaded here:  Khanna_Grant. This is what FSD said: June 19, 2009 Dear Arjun, Thank you for submitting your grant proposal titled Iguhu District Hospital to the Foundation for Sustainable Development.  The [...]

Kenya is Random

My grant didn’t get funded (eff.) so it has now suddenly become increasingly important to meet my fundraising goal of $1000 by June 29.  Donate here! I’ll post exactly what FSD said about my grant, complete with a blow-by-blow commentary of what I think about them tomorrow evening when I meet with Angie to talk [...]

DOOOONATE

Sorry for not posting yesterday – I was really tired. Yesterday was a pretty cool day, though.  I wake up really early, work out, and go to work.  I’m in the process of printing out some materials for training that day when I get a phone call, and this is 8:00 am.  These days, I [...]

First Day of Training

I may or may not have spent the whole day pressing refresh on my gmail account to see if I got the grant.  It has not been released yet. That, combined with my nervousness concerning the first training session that took place today, gave me one of those stress-induced sneezing attacks that I so often [...]

Running

Today was relatively uneventful, except for the tons of vegetables I have sitting in my room right now.  Yesterday night, as I was wrapping up work, Mama Joyce asks me if they eat ugali in the United States. For those who don’t know, ugali is just corn flour mixed with water and then boiled (there [...]

DON’T feed the animals.

The Muliro household took a while to grow accustomed to my presence, but we grow closer every day.  While some might be inclined to believe this is a great thing in all aspects, I will presently explain how, despite this being a net positive, this also presents somewhat of a problem. Subject A:  Patience.  A [...]