7/21 The street kids project and the second day of the orphans
project were great. We didn’t run things quite as planned for the
street kids, but we all had a good time. First we played soccer, then
some relay games. To bring our short stay with them to a close, we
played ultimate frisbee that some how evolved into an arm wrestling
contest. Then on Saturday, Baker got about 300 more trees for us to
plant. Unfortunately we only got to planting about half of them. Sunday
was a rest day and some people went to church with Owen, one of the
translators. The people that did go said it was a good experience, but
it was long and tiring. The rest of us stayed at the college house and
sat around. Then we went to the craft market for some late morning
Bargaining. Overall it was a good day. Then today we started camp
number three. We combined with the college group and then divided in
half. The group I was in drove right past the school the first time
around, then we finally asked somebody for directions and eventually
got there. But it didn’t matter that we were late. There were only
about twenty students waiting for us. After a little while, a few more
kids showed up. I ended up having a class of only 14. Our last camp
starts on Thursday with a homestay on Friday night. No body is looking
forward to the end of our stay.

7/26 Our last camp was a blast. It's winter break here right now so
there weren't as many kids as usual. But everybody had a ton of fun.
This homestay was not even comparable to the first one. I stayed with
a man, his wife and their baby daughter in a brick house instead of a
mud hut. I fell asleep at about 8:30 and slept pretty much all the way
through until Jakes alarm went off at 5:00. From there, the two of us
and our homestay father hiked a small mountain to catch the sunrise,
which was incredible. Then we proceeded down to camp to teach our third
and final day of camp for world camp 2008. Now we are all but excited
for the safari and the lake.

8/1 On Monday, at about 7:45am we left for our safari. By 2:00pm we
were all unpacked into our tents. At 3:30 we went on our first safari,
an afternoon boat ride. The first thing we saw were a pod of hippos.
From there we saw a few crocodiles, impala, water buck, fish eagles,
and an African sunset on the water. Which completely blew my mind. The
next day we got up early to go on a game drive, but the driver was
late and he didn’t have the key to get into the black rhino sanctuary.
So we canceled that one and booked a 5:30 drive for the next day. For
the rest of that day we hung out and watched monkeys, baboons, and
warthogs that hung out right outside the lodge and pool. That night
some of us were awakened at around 3:45 because there were two
elephants in our camp. I saw one of them as it walked past my tent.
Then we got up at 5:00 and were in the land rovers at 5:30 for the
game drive. Within the first five minutes we got a close look at some
more impala and an elephant. But the elephant was in the brush so we
couldn’t see it very well. After that we went into the black rhino
sanctuary. While we were in there we saw two herds of zebras, two
more elephants, a heard of buffalo, kudu, baboons, sable, which are
like impala, and a few hart buck. Unfortunately we didn’t see any
rhinos. There are only nine of them so there wasn’t a very good chance.
But we had a ton of fun anyway. Tomorrow we will be leaving for the
lake. Then on Monday we leave for the airport and start the long haul
to America.

Thank you so much to everybody that helped make this trip possible. It was such an eye opening, and wonderful experience for me.