Archive for April 2009
Warthog
Sunday, April 19, 2009 | 10:51 amYesterday morning, the Small Enterprise Development team set out on a field trip to KickStart and the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI), to view a number of technologies being developed and used by small farmers and entrepreneurs for wealth creation.
Not long after we pulled out of the conference center and onto the main [...]
Nairobi
Saturday, April 11, 2009 | 9:06 amI’m back in Nairobi for In-Service Training (IST). It’s really good to see Peace Corps friends again.
I took the train from Mombasa to Nairobi. We left at about 8pm on Thursday night, and arrived at 12pm on Friday. We paid extra to buy out the 4-compartment cabin (there were 3 of us), [...]
Wind Scorpions
Monday, April 6, 2009 | 11:57 amThis weekend, while hanging out at Jon’s house with Jon and Jeff, we saw the nastiest insect we’ve encountered since arriving in Africa. It was a spider, 4-5 inches big with huge mandibles. Jeff correctly identified it as a wind scorpion - also known as a wind spider, sun spider, or sun scorpion. [...]