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Marakwet & Pokot on Thursday. Not sure realy what to update on though. I
pretty much said everything in the brief update the other day.
The thing that was frustrating me has got a lot easier to deal with now
that I'm going to Malta for Christmas. I generally just am not too
bothered any more.
I suppose there are a lot of little things that happen every day, like
Sarah witnessing mob justice in Kibera, and the little trials and
tribulations of communal living (the kitchen is worse than Cavendish!)
But on the whole not a lot is going on. Dave & I have done all this
organisation for the trip, and now we're finally going. Tomorrow we have
to get all the kit together and go shopping. Should be fun. And repair a
tent which has been sat outside getting wet since yesterday.
So the trip we're going on... It's basically me, dave, Hannah, Leila,
Matt and Matua going up to Tot for 3 nights, then up to Marich Pass for
a night, down to Kapenguria for another niight, and then early to
Eldoret where they're dropping me and Dave off to go to Baringo, and
Hannah to go to Kampala. God knows what we're actually going to be doing
there, apart from camping and cooking rice and beans for ourselves.
So then Dave & head off to Baringo. We're off in search of a couple of
villages for Dave's potential phd, then to have a quick field walk
around to see if we can find any surface material from the kapthurin
formation. Which should also be Dave's Birthday, so we'll be spending
that at Kampi on Lake Baringo and hopefully do something fun as well.
Dave is insistent on his Birthday treat being to throw me into the lake,
but I'm hoping that won't happen as there are some resident crocs.
Anyway, i've just been provided with The Host to read. Patience is truly
amazing. So as I don't really have anything interesting to update I'll
leave you all until I return from baringo, hopefully with much fun news,
and none at all about me falling into the lake. (that would probably
mean more if I'd gotten around to telling the full sudan story... I fell
in the river one day, a little embarrassing, all good fun though.)
xx
